United Nations (magazine)
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| description | German political and legal journal |
| Area of Expertise | United Nations |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag (Germany) |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| First edition | 1962 |
| Frequency of publication | bi-monthly |
| Sold edition | 3,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Patrick Rosenow |
| Editor | German Society for the United Nations (DGVN) |
| Web link | www.zeitschrift-vereinte-nationen.de |
| Article archive | 1.1962 - today (digitized) |
| ISSN (print) | 0042-384X |
| ISSN (online) | 2366-6773 |
The United Nations. Journal for the United Nations and its specialized agencies is a German specialist journal for issues related to the United Nations and its specialized agencies , which has been published since 1962 . It is published by the German Society for the United Nations (DGVN) and is published six times a year by the Berlin Wissenschafts-Verlag .
Goal setting
Subscription to the United Nations magazine is covered by membership fees for members of the German Society for the United Nations . At the same time, the magazine sees itself primarily as a specialist magazine that deals with all issues relating to the United Nations and its specialized agencies and presents their development in real time. The published articles include scientific contributions, studies and experience reports from people who were or are active in the UN environment, or who have dealt with the United Nations in the broadest sense. From the very beginning, the authors have included high-ranking politicians, including Gerhart Baum , Willy Brandt, Rita Süssmuth, Helmut Kohl, Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Joschka Fischer and Richard von Weizsäcker , the Secretary General of the United Nations , international lawyers, and occasionally personalities like Hans Magnus Enzensberger in November 1962. The target group is not only considered to be the scientific audience, but everyone interested in the work of the United Nations. In the self-presentation, the "triad of analysis, report and documentation in this journal" was emphasized.
history
The forerunner of the "United Nations" was the "Bulletin of the German Society for the United Nations", whose number 1 of June 1953 was also the first annual report of the society founded in May 1952. In the editorial section, journalist Max Beer had been the outstanding author with reports from New York since 1953. At the end of 1959, there was no publication in German-speaking countries that reported on the 14th ordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly in such a current and detailed manner. The newsletter appeared irregularly, the last issue was number 36 in November 1961.
The first edition of the “United Nations” appeared in January 1962 with issue 1 of the “tenth” volume in August Lutzeyer Verlag, Baden-Baden. The editors had decided to retrospectively assign volume numbers to the previously published editions of “Mitteilungen”. In the first issue, Max Beer reported on page 1 as “Special Rapporteur of the German Society for the United Nations” from the 16th session of the General Assembly, and the other issues of this year were also opened by Beer. When he lost this place in the first two issues of the 1963 year and moved to the second page in favor of contributions from the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Health, Beer stopped working. After a year of reporting without mentioning the author's name, Otto Leichter , the correspondent for the German Press Agency at the United Nations, took over Beer's task. Outstanding topics of the first decade were the reports on the death of Dag Hammarskjöld and the first conference of the United Nations in Germany, as well as reports on the relationship of the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR to the United Nations . The rubric “The Federal Republic and the United Nations. Documents and Messages ”has been an integral part of the editions since 1962; it was renamed when the Federal Republic and the GDR joined the United Nations and has since been called“ From the United Nations ”.
An essential task of the magazine was to publish German translations of the resolutions and decisions of the United Nations and the results of their votes every two months. Since the United Nations' German Translation Service was founded in 1975, their translations have been used. Overviews of memberships in UN organizations have also been an important part of the magazine for decades. This task has taken a back seat today, while editorial reporting on the work of the UN bodies and background reports occupy a large space. The publisher changed several times, August Lutzeyer Verlag followed in 1965 by Mönch-Verlag in Koblenz, 1989 by Norbert Paul Engel Verlag in Kehl, in 1994 by Nomos Verlag , Baden-Baden (the former August Lutzeyer Verlag), and from 2011 by Berliner Wissenschafts -Publisher .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Ehrhart: 50 years of the United Nations magazine in the German Bundestag . In: United Nations , Volume 60, Issue 3, 2012, p. 126, Online PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. 1.0 MB, accessed January 22, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d Volker Weyel: 50 years of the United Nations magazine. A trade journal is taking shape . In: United Nations , Volume 60, Issue 6, 2012, pp. 263–269, Online PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. 3.2 MB, accessed January 23, 2014.
- ↑ Thomas Fitschen: 50 Years of the United Nations Journal: Forum - Mediator - Knowledge Store . In: United Nations , Volume 60, Issue 4, 2012, p. 164, Online PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1.3 MB, accessed January 22, 2014.
