Salon columnists

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Salon columnists
Online platform for the defense of open civil societies
languages German
operator Salon columnists UG (limited liability)
On-line 2016 (currently active)
https://www.salonkolumnisten.com

Salon Columnists is a community blog founded in 2016 . The common denominator of the politically not determined authorship is the defense of open civil societies inside and outside Germany.

Alignment

Paul Ingendaay saw the salon columnists' manifesto in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as "an ideologically broad reaction to the onslaught of simplifiers and populists". It represents the attempt to reach agreement among democrats on a political minimum and to remain in objective discourse beyond what divides. "Among us are SPD - and CDU -, changeover and non-voters , Greens , supporters of the Democrats and American Republicans , monarchists, " write the initiators, as well as "Anarchists, conservatives and liberals, liberal-conservative social democrats and social-liberal anarcho-conservatives - and even a few members of the FDP ”. Gunter Weißgerber certified the salon columnist in PT magazine that he wrote “intellectually free from self-censorship”, “which was still part of the discourse years ago in the mainstream media”.

history

The platform started in December 2016 at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin with the panel discussion "The radicalization of political discourse". It positioned itself against disinformation campaigns from Russia Today to Wikileaks , “belittling Islamism”, “anti-Semites who dress up as critics of Israel” and “racists who dress up as critics of Islam ”, against “fans of Vladimir Putin ” and "People who play down Donald Trump ". The FAZ saw this as a serious attempt to raise its voice from the political center and to wage the controversy that is pending.

Since mid-2017, the Federal Agency for Civic Education has been presenting articles by salon columnists in its “security press review”.

operator

The platform is operated by Salon Columnists UG (limited liability), represented by David Harnasch and Jan-Philipp Hein. The latter is also the person responsible in terms of press law .

Authors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Paul Ingendaay: A catalog of values ​​for windy times. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. December 7, 2016, accessed January 2, 2019 .
  2. Gunter Weißgerber: The end of criticism. In: PT magazine. May 30, 2018, accessed January 2, 2019 .
  3. Salon columnists. In: Federal Center for Political Education. Retrieved January 2, 2019 .