Rozhlad

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Cover of issue no. 2/2015 with the picture "Wurschen Castle in Winter" by Isa Brützke

Rozhlad ( listen ? / I ; "Umschau"), subtitled Serbski kulturny časopis (German: Sorbian culture magazine ) is a Sorbian magazine that has been published uninterruptedly since 1950, initially every two months and later monthly and contains articles in Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian . The magazine appears eleven times a year, which means that one of the issues (mostly the July / August issue) appears as a "double or two-month issue". The normal monthly edition has 40 pages, while the double edition has 64 pages. Audio file / audio sample

From 1950 to 1991 the magazine appeared as an organ of the Sorbian national organization Domowina and was therefore strongly politically influenced during this time. Since 1991 it has appeared as an independent monthly publication under the umbrella of the Domowina publishing house in Bautzen, which is independent of Domowina . In addition to a subscription, the cultural magazine can be purchased in the Smoler'schen Buchhandlung in Bautzen and in the Sorbian Cultural Information Lodka in Cottbus.

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The monthly newspaper has well-known forerunners: Łužičan (1860–1881) and Łužica (1882–1937). That means more than 150 years of tradition that was only interrupted in National Socialist times and after the Second World War. It deals impartially with cultural, artistic and minority political issues as well as Sorbs issues. In the periodical, poems and short prose by Sorbian authors are published, articles on Sorbian everyday life and Sorbian handicrafts can also be read. Since August 2013, almost every issue has at least one poem or story in Upper or Lower Sorbian. Current Sorbian publications and publications relevant to the Sorbs are reviewed in the journal . Rozhlad is also a bridge to other West Slavic language areas and language minorities (Polish, Czech, Lachish and others). German-speaking authors also publish texts in Rozhlad ; these are translated into Lower or Upper Sorbian by the newspaper's staff. Another category is the interviews with prominent Sorbian artists, writers and actors. Occasionally there are texts on the Sorbian language , texts on important anniversaries as well as short prose and poems. Rozhlad also publishes translated poems and stories by well-known authors mainly from Slavic countries ( Stanislava Repar , Pavel Novotný, Milan Hrabal , etc.)

In the period between 1950 and 1960 there were hardly any contributions in Lower Sorbian. At that time, the editorial staff of the magazine had difficulties getting articles and getting them ready for printing in time. Christiana Piniekowa has pointed out (Rozhlad 10/2000, p. 354) that only 5% of all content up to 2000 relates to Lower Lusatia , while only 2% of all texts up to the year 2000 were written in Lower Sorbian. However, the number of Lower Sorbian articles increased after reunification and reached its peak after September 2013. For example, 28% of all 40 pages of issue 2/2015 were in Lower Sorbian.

While hardly any photographs were found in the magazine between 1950 and 1990, the pictures have become more frequent since 2000. The pictures in the inner part of the magazine have remained black and white to this day. A special feature are the four colored pages of the two cover sheets, which are the only colored pictures in the magazine. The first page of the cover sheet is mainly used for the presentation of artistic works. These are artists who come from Lusatia or those who were inspired by Sorbian. Isa Brützke , Marion Quitz , Maja Nagel , Jutta Mirtschin and Iris Brankatschk are worth mentioning , who decorated the first page of the cover sheet once or several times.

history

Editors-in-chief

In addition to the first editor-in-chief Ota Wićaz , Měrćin Nowak-Njechorński also worked in the editorial team. After Wićaz's death, Nowak-Njechorński took over as editor-in-chief of the magazine in 1952. In the beginning the magazine functioned as an organ of the umbrella organization Domowina . An editorial group (Redakciski kruh) was established, which acted like an editorial advisory board. Important Sorbian personalities such as the writers Jurij Brězan or Frido Mětšk took part in the editorial team. Even if the magazine declared itself to be critical, it remained very close to the socialist system between 1950 and 1980. Articles such as the one by Jan Šołta Naš wulki přećel - Wilhelm Pieck ('Our Bigger Friend - Wilhelm Pieck'; Rozhlad 1950, p. 49) or those about Sorbian-Russian / Soviet friendship were published.

Even if the magazine remained loyal to the SED until the fall of the Berlin Wall , modernization tendencies can be observed since 1970. Cyril Kola was more oriented towards the Czech Republic and Poland than Měrćin Nowak-Njechorński, who was close to the Soviet Union. The magazine got a new layout (with two columns). First reports on more important cultural events were written. In 1976 the editorial staff of the magazine won the Ćišinski Prize .

One of the curiosities of the magazine is the number of editors. There was almost always a single editor-in-chief in the magazine. In addition to the editor-in-chief Cyril Kola, the writer and journalist Ben Budar worked as a journalist for the magazine between 1980 and 1990. The position of a second editor was abolished around 1990. So Jěwa-Marja Čornakec continued to work as the sole editor of Rozhlad. After 19 years as editor-in-chief, she handed over the post to Richard Bígl on August 1, 2011 . Viktor Zakar was the magazine's editor-in-chief from August 2013 to December 2015 . In 2019 Julian Nitzsche worked as an editor with the editor-in-chief Sara Mitschke.

The circulation in 2004 was around 610 copies, it reached around 5% of Sorbian households. The German Ministry of the Interior mentioned the magazine in 2005 in the report on the European Convention for the Protection of Minorities of the Council of Europe . The financial resources for the magazine are low and are constantly being cut. The call for solidarity with the threatened Sorbian language and cultural landscape also affects this magazine.

In 2014 Rozhlad had around 420 subscribers with a print run of around 450 copies.

The magazine has had a new layout since January 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About us: Richard Bígl. In: Wendish paganism. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ "Rozhlad": Nowy šefredaktor ( memento from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Sorbischer Rundfunk of the Central German Broadcasting Corporation
  3. ↑ a b Second Report submitted by the Federal Republic of Germany under Article 25, paragraph 2, of the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities - Annexes: Printmedien des Sorbischen Volkes , page 126.
  4. ↑ Call for solidarity with the threatened Sorbian linguistic and cultural landscape: Support from Germany and Europe ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Sorbian Artists Association

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