NRhZ-Online

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The NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung is a blog from Cologne that was founded in August 2005 and is updated weekly . The editor and publisher was Peter Kleinert . After his death in 2016, Anneliese Fikentscher and Andreas Neumann took over the editing.

Claim and orientation

The choice of the title is intended to tie in with the communist-socialist Neue Rheinische Zeitung edited by Karl Marx in Cologne from 1848 to 1849 . The NRhZ online looked when it was founded in 2005 as an alternative to mainstream -Medien, which they accused of forming a monopoly of opinion, and sought by its own account, an independent commitment to oppose and critical reporting. According to Kleinert's information from 2010, the authors do not receive any fees.

The blog is considered anti-American and anti-Zionist . In the Jewish online magazine HaGalil , he is characterized as a “mixture of veritable anti-Semitism , dusty anti-capitalism and conspiracy theories”.

Cologne Karls Prize

Ken Jebsen at the 2014 award ceremony

Since 2008, NRhZ-Online has been awarding the Cologne Karls Prize for committed literature and journalism “primarily to people from the anti-Israel and anti-American spectrum.” According to NRhZ-Online, this “Karl Prize” is named after Karl Marx and costs just under 200 euros endowed. The name of the award can be confused with the significantly higher endowed and renowned Aachen Charlemagne Prize . The journalist Matthias Meisner classifies this likelihood of confusion as “quite intentional”.

Prize winners were:

1 The award winner did not take part in the award ceremony.

Controversy

Conspiracy theories about NSU murders

In October 2012, the current editors Fikentscher and Neumann published their own text, in which the perpetrators of the National Socialist underground in the so-called “Döner” or “Ceska” murders was questioned, first in the NRhZ-Online and then in light abridged version in April 2014 on their website Arbeiterfotografie .com . The text found in the neo-Nazis in community contributions significant encouragement and propagated the popular there conspiracy theory that it was "in the series of murders to contract killings , a mixture of Turks / Kurdish communities litigation , extortion , narcotics IN QUESTION, etc.". Then the two of them submitted the text, slightly changed, for publication to the Ossietzky magazine , which only prints first-time publications, and assured them that it had not appeared anywhere else. It was then printed in issue 13/2013. Ossietzky editor Otto Köhler only noticed shortly afterwards what was supposed to be the alleged first publication and accused Fikentscher and Neumann of having “ opened a national-socialist cross front ”. He also pointed out that the two had been suggesting Israeli authorship of the accidental death of Jörg Haider since 2009 on Arbeiterfotografie.com .

Award ceremony to Ken Jebsen

The planned awarding of the 2017 “Kölner Karls-Preis” to Jebsen at the Babylon cinema in Berlin was initially canceled by the cinema operator. This corresponded to the attitude of the Berlin Senator for Culture, Klaus Lederer ( Linke ), who did not want the publicly funded cinema to offer a “fair for those who believe in conspiracies and aluminum hats a stage”. The NRhZ-Online successfully proceeded against the termination in court. In the trial, the Kino Babylon stated that the cancellation was "due to pressure from the Berlin Senate" and because of security concerns. The award ceremony took place in the absence of Jebsen, who canceled his participation. The musical accompaniment for the award also appeared on Die Bandwidth and Gilad Atzmon . Atzmon, who is accused of using anti-Semitic stereotypes, was banned from the cinema , but appeared nonetheless.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erik Peter: No room for Jebsen. Querfront award ceremony canceled. taz.de , November 14, 2017, accessed December 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ LINKE decides "clear edge" against Querfront and Jebsen , Neues Deutschland from December 4, 2017
  3. ↑ No award ceremony - Kino Babylon cancels Ken Jebsen , Berliner Zeitung of November 16, 2017
  4. ↑ NRhZ self-image: Independent, committed and critical. 2005.
  5. ^ Peter Kleinert: Kölner Karls-Preis - Wolfgang Bittner is awarded for his work as a writer and author. Online Flyer No. 254 from June 16, 2010.
  6. ^ Daniel Frick: Berlin Senator criticizes awarding of the award to radio presenter Jebsen , Medienmagazin pro from November 24, 2017
  7. ↑ a b Silke Müller: An anti-Zionist family reunion in haGalil.com, September 29, 2014
  8. ↑ Erik Peter: Querfront award ceremony canceled: No room for Jebsen . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 14, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 13, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Anna Lehmann: Querfront Debate at the Left Left fights with conspirators , Die Tageszeitung from December 5, 2017
  10. ↑ Matthias Meisner : Underneath Putin Understanders and Alu Hats , Der Tagesspiegel of November 22, 2017
  11. ↑ PEN Center Germany: The Author's Lexicon 2015/16 , e-book without page numbers, entry on Werner Rügemer, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-863-51254-5 .
  12. ↑ a b Charlemagne Prize for Gössner. taz.de , May 18, 2012, accessed on November 20, 2017 .
  13. ^ Family reunion of the anti-Semites. , haGalil of September 27, 2014
  14. ↑ a b c Erik Peter: Great cinema of the absent. Award ceremony for Ken Jebsen. taz , December 15, 2017, accessed February 1, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Otto Köhler: "Trapped" , Ossietzky No. 14/2013
  16. ↑ Jebsen is to be honored in Babylon, The December 8, 2017 newspaper
  17. ↑ Judgment: Honor for Jebsen may take place in Babylon. Neues Deutschland , December 8, 2017, accessed January 17, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Johannes C. Bockenheimer and Matthias Meisner: Querfront: Award ceremony for conspiracy theorist Ken Jebsen burst , Der Tagesspiegel of December 14, 2017