Newspaper
The ZeitSchrift is a right-wing esoteric magazine that has been published quarterly since 1993 with the main sales area in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and focuses on spirituality , awareness , nature , health , nutrition and ecology . The editors and editors are the Swiss journalists Ursula and Benjamin Seiler-Spielmann. According to the publisher, the circulation is 13,000 copies. An English edition has also been available since 2005.
Philosophical orientation
Tobias Jaecker , author of the book Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories after September 11th , classifies the ideological orientation of “ZeitSchrift” as esoteric-right-wing extremist; the historian Stefan Meining described the paper in a lecture at a symposium of the Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in 2002 as “the most important journalistic mouthpiece of German-speaking legal esotericism for years.” A publication by the State Youth Authority of the City of Hamburg sees the paper in the closer context of the theosophical “ universals Church "and reported that the editor of the" journal "because of the impression of an interview with Peter Leach-Lewis in the magazine 13/97, the" Patriarch and Archbishop "of this association, because sedition were sentenced to probation.
Ideologically, the ZeitSchrift combines conservative to reactionary Christian-Puritan morality, theosophical esoteric doctrines, anti-Semitism and spreads world conspiracy theories, in particular the conspiracy-theoretical theses of Jan van Helsing , and anti-democratic, theocratic political models. In addition to the “Universal Church”, it also advertises its preliminary organization “World Foundation for Natural Science”, which was founded in 1993.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.zeitenschrift.com/news/Mediadaten_2010.pdf
- ↑ Tobias Jaecker: Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories after September 11th. LIT Verlag, Berlin 2005. p. 80.
- ↑ Stefan Meining: Right esotericism in Germany. Constructs of ideas, interfaces and potential dangers ( memento of February 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, proceedings for the 2002 Symposium, p. 74, in the Internet Archive
- ↑ Ingolf Christiansen, Rainer Fromm , Hartmut Zinser : Page no longer available , search in web archives: Focus on esotericism: occultism, Satanism, right-wing radicalism . Ed. Interior Authority - State Youth Authority, Hamburg 2006. pp. 164–65.
- ↑ Eduard Gugenberger, Franko Petri and Roman Schweidlenka: World conspiracy theories . The new danger from the right . Deuticke, Vienna 1998, p. 227ff.