Pogląd
Pogląd (1982–1990) (in German opinion , view ) was a Polish news magazine for political emigrants from what was then communist Poland . It appeared in West Berlin .
history
It was founded by Edward Klimczak , a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin , after the suspension of the first free trade union Solidarność in the communist sphere of influence and martial law in Poland (December 13, 1981).
The first issue appeared on January 17, 1982 under the working title Biuletyn Informacyjny KOS (information bulletin of the Committee for the Defense of Solidarność). There were eight typewritten pages in A4 format, reproduced to an edition of 500 copies, the second edition already had 17 pages, the fifth issue of March 21, 1982 was 40 pages thick.
After 20 issues had been published, the working title Information Bulletin was replaced by Pogląd in the autumn of 1982 , and all pages were optically reduced to A5 format. It was soon published as a hardcover in B5 format and in four colors. The information sheet became a news magazine with journalistic demands. The Pogląd editorial team established contacts with the other Polish pro Solidarność exile groups in West Germany, e. B. in Cologne , Munich , Mainz , Hanover or Aachen . With her help, Pogląd also came to Paris, London, New York and Australia.
Book publisher
The editorial team soon began to publish books too. It all started in 1983 with the almost 200-page book “Asylum Law” by Tadeusz Folek, a Polish lawyer from Cologne. Christian Bergemann, a German Stasi prisoner, is responsible for the layout. Since there was a wave of emigrants from Poland to West Berlin, a visa-free city (state) at the time, after martial law was imposed, the book was even published twice. The rapidly growing exile publisher drove to the Frankfurt Book Fair as early as 1984 with a few other book titles, brochures and booklets by Pogląd and joined the other established Polish exile publishers from London and Paris.
1988-1990
Up to issue 141 (January 1988) all issues appeared, each with approx. 70-80 pages, every two weeks, then once a month. After a short break, the editorial team was relocated to Warsaw the following year and resumed work in September 1989 (issue No. 153) in an almost new team. That is possible, because Poland is in the process of being the first country in Europe to overcome communism with the new pro-Solidarność government under Tadeusz Mazowiecki . However, since newspaper distribution was still in the hands of the communist company RSW Prasa-Książka "Ruch", the industry monopoly at the time, the anti - communist magazine was barely able to gain access to the market and its publication was discontinued after the 166th issue was published. The project to establish an independent political magazine based on the model of the news magazine Der Spiegel in Poland had failed.
Authors, content
As early as January 1983, the first Pogląd magazine appeared in German under the title Opinion as a collection of the most interesting articles from the Polish magazines. A total of seven booklets were published in German, some of them with editorial help from Roland Mischke, a young pastor who moved from the GDR to West Berlin. Pogląd had numerous authors in Poland who kept under a pseudonym for fear of state reprisals. Pogląd - correspondents in many European countries, in the USA and Australia contributed to the fact that the magazine could report comprehensively on the Pro Solidarność activities in the Polish diaspora and on the political developments in these countries and to the most important press organ of the Solidarność emigration in the west was. Among the Pogląd - [authors] were well-known in Poland journalists, writers and even politicians like Władysław Bartoszewski , Wanda Falkowska , Maria de Hernandez-Paluch, Krystyna Grzybowska , Janusz Rudnicki , Romuald Szeremietiew , Maciej Rybiński , Leszek Szaruga or Krzysztof Wyszkowski . Over 20 book titles have been published by Pogląd, including a. Lew Kopelev I created myself an idol , Free tribune of Christian Skrzyposzek or KGB Marek Ciesielczyk.
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