We ourselves

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We ourselves (spelling: we ourselves ) was a German magazine. She described herself as oriented towards national revolution and was one of the mouthpieces of the New Right .

history

The founding of the we even dates back to 1978. Siegfried Bublies (* 1953), at that time a member of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) and deputy state chairman of the Rhineland-Palatinate Young National Democrats (JN), first tried to bring his party on a "green course" and founded the in 1978 with other JN members Green cell Koblenz with the aim of influencing the party formation process of the Greens . The national revolutionary cell issued the Green Flag as an organ . In the summer of 1979, Bublies and his colleagues in the Green Cell left the NPD and in December 1979 founded the magazine Wir sich . The title was the German translation of the name of the Irish Republican party Sinn Féin . Siegfried Bublies was editor and chief editor of the bimonthly magazine, which initially appeared with the subtitle magazine for national identity . From May / June 1983 to November 1986 the subtitle was magazine for national identity and international solidarity , from issue 1/1987 to 3/4 1990 magazine for politics and culture and again from issue 1/1991 to the last issue 1/2002 in a variation as a journal for national identity . The seat of the magazine was Koblenz until 1997 , from 1998 Schnellbach , seat of the Siegfried Bublies Verlag . The We itself was around 40 pages long and at times appeared irregularly with a circulation of around 4,000 copies. In addition to Siegfried Bublies, the editorial team included Gerhard Quast, Roland Wehl, Elfriede Fink and Marcus Bauer, who published their own articles, some under pseudonyms.

A follow-up project called Volkslust has existed since 2004 .

Alignment

We, influenced by the work of Henning Eichberg , saw itself in the tradition of the historical national revolutionaries and tried expressly to influence both the democratic right and the democratic left or to build a bridge to the left protest movement. Some authors, such as Baldur Springmann, came from the ecological movement of the 1970s, but, in contrast to the majority, were politically right to right-wing extremists .

The topics of the magazine include ecology , regionalism , criticism of capitalism and "liberation nationalism". In the paper a separate path between capitalism and communism is propagated. Their anti-western attitude is based on the thesis of the displacement of popular cultures by (US-American) neocolonialism (see also anti-Americanism ).

In the 1980s, the magazine stood out because of its close ties to the Libyan revolutionary leader Muammar al-Gaddafi , who gave her a long interview in 1983. In addition, she also worked with other magazine projects such as Zeitwende and especially Junge Freiheit .

Authors

Authors who published in the We ourselves (names taken from the journal's website):

Interview partner

Known interview partners

  • Gerry Adams (chairman of the Irish party Sinn Féin )
  • Olaf Dinné (former member of the Bremen Green List)
  • Abdallah Frangi (PLO representative in Bonn, today: Advisor to the Palestinian President Abbas)
  • Muammar al-Gaddafi (Libyan revolutionary leader)
  • Ali Homam Ghasi (Kurdish politician and adviser to Öcalan)
  • Martin McGuinness , (former head of the IRA ) - incorrect information taken from the We Ourselves website
  • Arno Klönne (Professor of Sociology in Paderborn - A conversation about people and sovereignty)
  • Hartmut Koschyk (former Secretary General of the Association of Expellees, today Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance)
  • Detlef Kühn (former President of the All-German Institute)
  • Preben Lange (Inuit, former Greenlandic MP in the Danish Parliament)
  • Rüdiger Nehberg (world traveler, adventurer and activist for the Society for Threatened Peoples, is particularly committed to the Yanomami Indians)
  • Otfried Preußler (children's book author)
  • Najibullah Roshan (Afghan resistance fighter against the Soviet occupation forces)
  • Richard Scheringer (many years member of the board of the DKP, former National Socialist who joined the KPD in 1931)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Backes , Eckhard Jesse : Yearbook Extremism & Democracy , Volume 11, 1999, p. 239.
  2. ^ Peter Guggemos : Political Attitudes of Republican Voters: The Party's Supply and Political Demand. Ergon-Verlag, 2000, p. 92.
  3. ^ Franz Greß , Hans-Gerd Jaschke , Klaus Schönekäs : New rights and right-wing extremism in Europe: Federal Republic, France, Great Britain. Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 264.
  4. ↑ a b Gideon Botsch : The extreme right in the Federal Republic of Germany 1949 to today . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2012, p. 95.
  5. ↑ Clemens Heni : Deutsche Lust , on haGalil.com.
  6. ↑ a b Jens Mecklenburg (Ed.): Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism . Berlin 1996, p. 435 f . ( apabiz.de ).
  7. ↑ a b http://www.bublies-verlag.de/contents/de/d205.html .