Nation24
Nation24 , originally Europa Vorn , is a right-wing extremist magazine published by Manfred Rouhs . Anton Maegerle describes the predecessor magazine Europa vor as one of the strategic organs of the New Right .
editor
Manfred Rouhs is considered a "multifunctional" of the right-wing extremist spectrum. Outside of politics, Rouhs is mainly active as a journalist. In 1987 he founded the publishing house named after him and launched the magazine Europa vor (between 1998 and 2003 Signal , today nation24 ), of which he is the editor. Europe in front and Signal played an ideologically innovative role in the political right, as they were already involved in the construction of the enemy image "Islam" at the end of the 1990s. In addition to publishing the magazine and operating the nation24 website, he also maintains a number of other websites, such as "gewinnbereich.de". Until November 11, 2017, Rouhs was federal chairman of the right-wing extremist small party Citizens' Movement for Germany , which was founded in January 2005.
content
After a break, Rouhs resumed the publication of nation24 in November 2011. For years, "nation24" only existed as a website on which texts were put online, sometimes with longer interruptions. In addition to financial motives, observers see that with closer cooperation between the various “pro” groups and the REP, the “Independent Magazine for Germany” launched on the market is a “souvenir”.
Well-known conservative and right-wing journalists write in the magazine. Jeroen Zandberg from UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization) published an article in the April 2012 issue. In the same issue, Marine Le Pen's chances in the French presidential elections on April 22, 2012 were examined.
The magazine calls for “Raus aus dem Euro!” (November 2011 edition) and deals with the strategy of the pro-Germany movement. In December 2011, the paper dealt with issues relating to animal welfare (“Animal welfare instead of Halal”).
Litigation
In the NRW reports on the protection of the constitution in 2003 and 2004, nation24 was described as a right-wing extremist publication; this was declared unlawful in a judgment of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court at the end of 2006, since, according to the judges, "there are no real indications that the publication of the nation24.de magazine is an attempt that goes against the free democratic Basic order is directed ". The Ministry of the Interior announced that it would seek an appeal.
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Maegerle: Leaves against Zeitgeist and Decadence. Profiles and relationships with new right-wing periodicals based on examples, in: Wolfgang Gessenharter / Thomas Pfeiffer (eds.), The new right - a threat to democracy? , VS Verlag, January 2004, pp. 199–209, here p. 206.
- ↑ Phillip Becher: Islam as an enemy image in new right periodicals. Blueprints of extreme right-wing Islamophobia in “Europe in front” and “Signal”, in: Farid Hafez (Ed.): Yearbook for Research on Islamophobia 2011. Germany - Austria - Switzerland , Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen: Studienverlag 2011, pp. 99–115.
- ↑ Judgment of the 22nd Chamber of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court, oral hearing of November 21, 2006, AZ 22 K 3124/04, p. 16. Copy ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at nation24.de.
- ↑ Dirk Eckert: Rights in court . In: taz nrw, January 10, 2007, p. 1.
