Upper Silesia (newspaper)
Oberschlesien is a German-language magazine with a focus on Oberschlesien (now in Poland). The magazine appears once a month in Görlitz with supplements and local sections for the various home districts (e.g. Kattowitz , Königshütte , Gleiwitz , Hindenburg OS , Beuthen , Oppeln , Schwientochlowitz and Laurahütte ).
Since 2001, the newspaper has been targeting readers in Germany as well as those in Poland. The circulation in 2005 was 12,200 copies, 4,200 of them in Poland. Subscription sales are carried out in Germany, and the title is also sold at kiosks in Poland.
When it was founded, the newspaper was called Unser Oberschlesien . The original displaced newspaper first appeared in 1951 in the Chmielorz publishing house in Wiesbaden . In 1968 our Upper Silesia reached a circulation of 24,000 copies. In 2001 the magazine was taken over by the Senfkorn Verlag A. Theisen from Görlitz . Since then, the Polish publishing location has been St. Annaberg. In 2005 the magazine was renamed Upper Silesia , initially with the subtitle “Newspaper for the Upper Silesians in East and West”.