St. Hedwigsblatt
| St. Hedwigsblatt
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| description | Catholic church gazette in the diocese of Berlin |
| Area of Expertise | Church newspaper |
| language | German |
| First edition | 1/1954 |
| attitude | 37/1990 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| editor | Diocese of Berlin |
The St. Hedwigsblatt was a Catholic church paper in the diocese of Berlin . Along with the Lord's Day , the Sorbian-speaking Katolski Posoł and the books from St. Benno Verlag in Leipzig, it was one of the few Catholic print media in the GDR .
history
In March 1953 in the GDR in West Berlin appears Peter sheet , the Catholic Church newspaper for the diocese of Berlin prohibited. On the initiative of various Catholic dignitaries in East Berlin, including Wilhelm Weskamm , the license for the St. Hedwigsblatt - Catholic Church Gazette in the Diocese of Berlin was granted on December 18, 1953 . The first edition appeared on January 3, 1954 with a print run of 25,000 copies. The newspaper was published weekly, but was only available by subscription. There was no public sale of church newspapers in the GDR. On March 2, 1956, the People's Police confiscated a copy of the paper because it contained a pastoral letter from several German bishops that opposed the materialist state ideology of the GDR. As a result of the turnaround , the pressure was stopped. The last issue appeared on December 16, 1990.
Web links
- Appearing brought joy everywhere, On the History of the Lord's Day and Other Catholic Publications (1); in: Day of the Lord 35/2001
- For the youth: St. Christopher, On the History of the Day of the Lord and other Catholic publications (2); in: Day of the Lord 35/2001
- Origins of publishing in Saxony, on the history of the day of the Lord and other Catholic publications (3); in: Day of the Lord 35/2001
Individual evidence
- ^ Josef Pilvousek : The Reception of the Second Vatican Council in the Catholic Church in the GDR , accessed on August 6, 2018 (PDF; 80 kB).
- ↑ Stephan Kotzula: Church history in data and facts (reading sample; PDF; 72 kB) with information: St. Hedwigsblatt 1954-1989; Retrieved on October 8, 2009 ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
