Courage (magazine)

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courage

description German political-cultural magazine
publishing company Courage Publishing House
Headquarters Asendorf
First edition 1965
attitude 2017
Frequency of publication per month
editor Bernhard C. Wintzek
Web link mut-verlag.de ( Memento from August 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
ISSN (print) 0027-5093

Mut (own spelling MUT ) was a monthly German subscription magazine with the subtitle Forum for Culture, Politics and History , formerly Das Nationaleuropean Magazin, which existed from 1965 to 2017 . The A5 magazine had a circulation of around 10,000 copies. The associated Mut Verlag was based in Asendorf . Both belonged to Bernhard Christian Wintzek .

history

The magazine Mut was founded in October 1965 by pupils and students as a bi-monthly magazine. Bernhard C. Wintzek was in charge of this. The magazine initially had a circulation of 300 copies. From May 1969, Mut appeared monthly and, under the influence of the domestic political climate with increasing polarization, took a “wrong turn into the right corner”, as the owner and former NPD activist Bernhard C. Wintzek himself later said. From 1967 to 1982 the paper was close to the militant groups Junge Nationaldemokrats , Bund Heimattreuer Jugend and Wiking-Jugend . The publisher Wintzek himself was a co-initiator of the working group of people's associations and of the violent action resistance (“Brandt an die Wand”) as well as a candidate for the NPD in the Bundestag in 1972. He organized nationwide meetings, whereby the magazine was "eagerly read in NPD circles". In addition to Wintzek, Hans Hertel was the “defining author” of the magazine in the 1970s .

From 1971 to 1983 the journal was classified as right-wing extremist in reports for the protection of the constitution .

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From a national revolutionary perspective, the topics of democracy and society, the environment and nature, education and culture and, above all, the division of Europe and Germany's peace and reunification policy were dealt with in Mut ; so z. B. the courage title from November 1974: "We are one people". This headline brought the magazine considerable attacks and at the same time increased accusations.

The SPD-affiliated information portal Blick nach Rechts wrote that the magazine had established itself "in the late 1970s as one of the leading right-wing extremist periodicals". According to Hoffmann, the "moral low point" was reached with the January 1979 issue. On the occasion of the broadcast of the US television film Holocaust on German television, one of the courage authors asked whether Auschwitz was not just an industrial labor camp and the gas chambers in Dachau had not been built by the Allies. This was followed by the indexing of the number 137 (January issue 1979) - this edition was only allowed to be given to adults as "socio-ethically disorienting" and thus politically harmful to young people . The magazine complained against it and lost.

Political change from 1980

The final break and a new beginning occurred at a staff meeting at the end of 1979. With the Hebbel words "It often takes more courage to change your mind than to remain true to it", Wintzek started his editorial and personal credo "for an unconditional opening, for liberality, tolerance and intellectual plurality ”.

From 1984 the journal was no longer mentioned in the Federal Constitutional Protection Report. She had previously reprinted an article by the then Federal Minister of the Interior, Friedrich Zimmermann . It was increasingly winning internationally renowned authors such as Ralf Dahrendorf , Ralph Giordano , Helmut Kohl and Horst Köhler . It was also possible to win over well-known personalities such as Peter Steinbach , the scientific director of the German Resistance Memorial Center , to become the publisher. Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl was even quoted as a “constant reader”. In the 1990s, Mut Verlag continued to publish texts by authors who were assigned to the “ New Right ”, such as Hans-Helmut Knütter . For its 40th anniversary in October 2005, Mut had already reached a total circulation of over 7 million copies.

The extremism researcher Armin Pfahl-Traughber confirmed a successful process of political change in the magazine in which he himself had published at the end of the 1990s. Although the magazine also allowed representatives of the New Right to have their say in the course of the change process , the occasional positioning of the magazine as an alleged organ of the New Right has no basis whatsoever. Courage “has nothing more to do with the ideas of the New Right .” Instead, it can now be assessed as “liberal-conservative”.

Courage was discontinued with the appearance of the "final edition" 591 (July / August 2017).

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  1. ↑ Jürgen Pomorin, Reinhard Junge: The neo-Nazis . Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1978, p. 23
  2. ↑ Eddel, Zeitschrift Mut , p. 127.
  3. ↑ ENDSTATION RIGHT: In the Line: The ideological transformation of the journal MUT. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Matthias von Hellfeld : The nation awakens - on the turnaround in German political culture. Cologne 1993, p. 20.
  5. ↑ the chancellor makes the right-wing extremist newspaper “courage” socially acceptable - members' magazine of IG Druck + Papier 5/1988
  6. ↑ Alice Brauner-Orthen : The New Right in Germany , Leske + Budrich 2001, p. 157
  7. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: Conservative Revolution and New Right: Right-Wing Extremist Intellectuals Against the Democratic Constitutional State. Opladen 1998, p. 23
  8. ↑ Mut Verlag product index with table of contents for the final edition .