Volksstimme (Austria)

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The daily newspaper Österreichische Volksstimme was the central organ of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) and the successor organ of the Red Flag (1919–1939). Today, Volksstimme is a political print magazine with an accompanying blog and appears 10 times a year.

history

The first edition of the Austrian People's voice appeared on August 5, 1945. In addition to the nationally published Volksstimmefest regional editions were published in the Federal States: So that was from 30 October will of the people of the CPA in the state of Carinthia published (1952-1990 as a coat sheet of the People's Voice).

From February 22, 1957, their title was only people's voice . The Saturday edition, which appeared as a weekend edition, was accompanied by a 6- to 8-page magazine section entitled “Weekend Panorama”. The Volksstimme was produced and distributed by KPÖ's own Globus Verlag .

In the course of a party conference, it was decided to discontinue the daily newspaper on the recommendation of chairmen Walter Silbermayer and Susanne Sohn . The last issue appeared on the weekend of March 3rd / 4th. March 1991. Its continuation is the socialist weekly Salto , which appeared from April 1991 to the end of February 1993. With the Novum judgment in 2003, with which it was decided that the owner of the considerable company assets was not the KPÖ, but the GDR and, as its successor, united Germany, the party was able to reassert itself as the Volksstimme weekly since January 5, 1994 published newspaper and discontinued it.

From May 1, 2004 to May 2009, the magazine appeared monthly under the changed title Volksstimmen , on September 1, 2009 a new start was made as a political monthly magazine with the original title Volksstimme , which was published under the direction of Mirko Messner . From 2016-2018 Michael Gruberbauer acted as editor's representative. An honorary and grassroots democratic editorial team has been working on the publication of the magazine since 2018.

Editor-in-chief 1945 to 1991

Editors 1945 to 1991

Peter Aschner, Georg Auer , Alfred Bartel, Richard Blaas, Kurt Castka, Ernst Eppler, Erich Feichtinger, Bruno Frei , Karl Frick, Bruno Furch , Leo Furtlehner, Fritz Glaubauf, Michael Graber, Gerald Grassl, Judith Gruber , Rainer Grünwald, Franz Hager , Lutz Holzinger , Otto Horn, Leopold Hornik, Alexander-Sascha Huber, Otto Janecek, Eugenie Kain, Franz Kain, Hans Kalt, Edmund Theodor Kauer, Erwin Kisser, Jenö Kostmann, Vene Maier, Heinz Markstein , Ulrich Perzinger, Werner Pirker , Curt Ponger, Eva Priester , Andreas Rasp, Helmut Rizy , Hilde Röder, Jakob Rosner , Gerda Rothmayer-Freistadt, Rolf Rothmayer, Erwin Scharf, Peter Sohn, Robert Sommer , Franz Stadler, Kurt Benz, Hermann Stuppäk, Walter Wachs, Heinz Wagner, Arthur West , Franz West, Ernst Wimmer , Peter Wimmer, Maximilian Weidinger, Hans Wolker , Erwin Zucker-Schilling.

Press photographers

Oscar Horowitz , Michael Horowitz , Franz Hausner , Erwin Schuh , Robert Newald

Cartoonists

Kóra, Karl Berger , Hans Auer

Volksstimmefest

The Volksstimmefest was the press festival of the daily newspaper “Volksstimme”, a Viennese folk festival that has been organized annually from 1946 to the present day, with a single interruption in 2004, on the Jesuitenwiese - formerly also on the Arenawiese - in the Vienna Prater by the KPÖ . In the 1970s and 1980s, the highlights of this festival were the sports festival, the reading by well-known authors under the title Linkes Wort , the Rotpunkt gallery and the largest annual fireworks display in Vienna.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volksstimme - Left print at the right time - Home page. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ People's will. Austrian National Library , accessed on April 24, 2015 .
  3. ^ Carinthia: from the German border mark to the Austrian federal state. Pp. 315-316 , accessed April 24, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Karl Reitter: The People's Voice - We About Us. In: volksstimme.at. June 13, 2018, accessed November 25, 2019 .