Our time (newspaper)

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description Party newspaper
language German
publishing company CommPress Verlag GmbH ( Germany )
Headquarters eat
First edition 1969
Frequency of publication weekly
Sold edition 6000 copies
(names print run of 6000 copies in June 2012)
Editor-in-chief Lars Mörking
editor Party executive of the DKP
Web link our-zeit.de
ISSN (print) 0943-4216

Our time ( UZ ) is the "Socialist Newspaper - Newspaper of the DKP " founded in 1969 .

Predecessor project

A forerunner of the DKP organ was evidently a newspaper of the same name that appeared in Mannheim every two weeks from May 1962 to April 1964 , had twelve pages and a print run of 2500 to 3000 copies. It was moved by the Mannheim locksmith and trade unionist Eugen Straub. The public prosecutor at the Karlsruhe Regional Court accused Straub of violating the KPD ban issued in 1956 in connection with his newspaper project . The editor of the Mannheim UZ was Eberhard Weber. Weber later took on leading positions in the DKP, which was newly constituted in 1968, and was its press spokesman until 1986 , before he became editor-in-chief of the Progress press agency . For a time Weber was also deputy editor-in-chief of the then daily published party organ "UZ - Our Time".

history

The first edition of the DKP party newspaper, Our Time, appeared on April 3, 1969, immediately before the DKP's Essen party congress (April 12/13, 1969). It was published by Kurt Bachmann , party chairman of the DKP from 1969 to 1973. Gerd Deumlich became the first editor-in-chief . From issue no. 11 of March 10, 1972, the UZ had the subtitle “Newspaper of the DKP” and indicated in the imprint as the publisher instead of Bachmann as the “party executive of the DKP”. In the 1980s, Georg Polikeit was editor-in-chief of UZ.

At first only a weekly paper, thanks to massive financial aid from the GDR, from October 1, 1973 , the UZ also appeared as a daily newspaper with the subtitle "The newspaper of the working people - newspaper of the DKP" in Neuss . The circulation of the daily newspaper UZ was around 60,000 copies in 1973, that of the weekly newspaper UZ around 50,000. Since the beginning of April 1975 the UZ has only appeared as a daily newspaper, the weekly newspaper has been discontinued mainly for economic reasons. Since then, the Friday edition has contained a weekend supplement and was produced in roughly double editions. The circulation of the UZ was subject to certain fluctuations in the following years, but decreased to around 25,000 copies or 50,000 copies for the weekend edition on Friday by 1981, only to approach the mark of 20,000 copies towards the end of the 1980s (Friday edition: less than 40,000 copies). For many years, the UZ appeared on six days of the week (Monday to Saturday). For cost reasons, a Monday edition was not produced between July 1983 and October 1986. On special occasions, extra editions of the UZ were printed with a circulation of up to 400,000 copies.

In 1989, after the SED cut off funding, the daily publication was discontinued and forty employees were laid off. The GDR financed the UZ in the late 1980s with around DM 12 million annually. Between the summer of 1990 and July 1996 it appeared fortnightly, initially with a circulation of 20,000 copies (1990). Since then the UZ has been available as a 16-page weekly newspaper. The financial situation remains tense and circulation has been falling for years. According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , its circulation nationwide is around 7500 copies, while the editorial team at the UZ Press Festival 2005 spoke of 9000 copies. The newspaper itself named a circulation of 6,000 copies in June 2012.

The UZ editorial team is based in Essen .

Press festival

The newspaper organizes the UZ press festival together with the DKP at regular intervals .

Editors-in-chief

literature

Web links

Commons : Our time  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b UZ website
  2. ↑ http://www.udo-leuschner.de/zeitungsgeschichte/sonstige/uz.htm
  3. ↑ Roland Kirbach: DKP: Left by the comrades. The SED stops financial aid for West German offshoots in Die Zeit , December 22, 1989
  4. ^ Wilfried Reckert: Experience of communism: twenty years as a DKP functionary; analytical reflections. LIT Verlag, Münster 2006, p. 20, ISBN 3-8258-9347-2 ( limited preview) .