Prague Spring (magazine)
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| description | Society magazine |
| language | German |
| publishing company | VSA-Verlag (Hamburg) (Germany) |
| First edition | May 16, 2008 |
| Frequency of publication | 3 issues / year (February, June, October) |
| Editor-in-chief |
Katja Kipping , Lena Kreck, Thomas Lohmeier, Kolja Möller, Jörg Schindler, Laszlo Strzoda, Katalin Gennburg, Stefan Gerbing |
| editor | Friends of the Prager Frühling eV (Berlin) |
| Web link | www.prager-fruehling-magazin.de |
| ISSN |
1866-5764 |
Prager Frühling is a political German magazine that was printed by VSA-Verlag until autumn 2013 . The subtitle is Magazine for Freedom and Socialism . She was a cooperation partner of the Internet portal Linksnet . Since the end of 2013, Prague Spring has only been published online.
Content
According to its own account, the magazine stands for a policy of socialist society transformation as a process of radical democratization and individual emancipation .
The focus of the magazine is the accompaniment and promotion of discussion processes in the German left and in the environment of the party Die Linke .
In terms of content, the magazine is closely related to the emancipatory left , a current of the party Die Linke.
editor
The magazine is published by the Friends of Prague Spring Association. The association determines the editorial team of the magazine.
editorial staff
The editorial staff are members of the Left Party or are politically close to it. The editorial team currently includes the members of the Bundestag and Chairwoman of the Left Katja Kipping , Lena Kreck (viSdP) , Thomas Lohmeier, Kolja Möller, Jörg Schindler, Laszlo Strzoda, Katalin Gennburg, Stefan Gerbing.
Authors
Articles in the magazine write and wrote, among others , Juli Zeh (writer), Alexander Wallasch (writer), Michel Friedman (columnist, TV presenter), Andrea Ypsilanti (politician), Andrej Hermlin (musician), Thilo Weichert (lawyer) and Hans- Christian Ströbele (politician). To date, several hundred authors have published at Prager Spring Magazine.
Name meaning
The magazine refers with its name to the reform communist current of the left, which strived for a de-Stalinization of the authoritarian real socialist system and tried to combine socialism and democracy. The aim was an open and attractive socialist society supported by the broader population. In the Prague spring of 1968 the Czechoslovak Communist Party tried to initiate such social reforms.