First!

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FIRST! - German news magazine

description Monthly magazine
language German
publishing company Reading and Giving Publishing Group ( Germany )
Headquarters Selent
First edition December 18, 2009
Frequency of publication per month
Editor-in-chief Manuel Ochsenreiter
editor Dietmar Munier
Web link first.de
ISSN (print) 1869-5493

First! - German news magazine ( original spelling ZUERST! ) Is a German monthly magazine that has been published since 2009 . It belongs to the publishing house of Dietmar Munier and emerged from the subscriber base of the magazine Nation und Europa , founded in 1951 . In his self-portrayal, first! as “the magazine for German interests”. Scientists and the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance locate it in right-wing extremism , although decidedly right-wing extremist agitation is avoided.

history

First! was built on the base of the subscriber base of the right-wing extremist monthly Nation und Europa ( N&E ) founded in 1951, not available at kiosks , which Munier bought and in favor of First! Hired , where he took over the N&E co-editor Harald Neubauer , who has a right-wing extremist functionary career , as a columnist. In the imprint of first! it says that the magazine was "united with Nation & Europe, German monthly books". Right-wing extremist media such as the NPD monthly newspaper German Voice supported the establishment. Economically, however, there were initial difficulties. However, since the Arndt-Verlag , the weekly newspaper Der Schlesier and the German military magazine for First! advertise, Vieregge made an “advertising effect” for Munier's publications. It also discusses First! Books from the Munier publishing house.

The magazine appears in the Verlagsgruppelesen & Schenken GmbH (publishers Arndt, Bonus, Pour le Merite) by Dietmar Munier , one of the most influential publishers from the right-wing extremist spectrum. The Schleswig-Holstein report for the protection of the constitution in 2009 certified the first edition of First! although "no overt right-wing extremist statements", referred to Munier's role as its editor. For the Schleswig-Holstein constitutional protection agency, Muniers Verlag was at least a right-wing extremist "suspected case". After a court case initiated by Munier, the publisher may no longer be listed as such a suspected case since the 2012 report on the protection of the constitution.

The historical revisionist magazine was distributed via the Verlagsunion , a subsidiary of the Bauer publishing house . In response to inquiries from the NDR media magazine Zapp and the news magazine Der Spiegel , why Bauer-Verlag publishes a magazine like first! distributes, the publisher's management replied that the freedom of the press should " enable freedom of expression within the framework of the applicable laws" and that it should cover "the full political spectrum ". At the beginning of 2012, the magazine changed distribution for cost reasons, as it was called.

In 2015, the magazine hosted a readers' meeting. a. Menno Aden , Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof and Barbara Rosenkranz appeared as speakers. Alexander Dugin , who was not allowed to leave the country by the Russian side, as an act of revenge against Dugin, among others, was feared because of the attack on the government critic Boris Nemtsov , was switched on live.

editorial staff

As editor in chief , first served journalist, former world - Head of studied historian Guenther Deschner , the moderate Munier was and has not noticed by "right-wing extremist activities," according to observers as well.

In March 2011 Manuel Ochsenreiter took over this task, who was a long-time employee and most recently head of the internal politics department of the new right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit and is the former editor-in-chief of the right-wing extremist German military magazine (DMZ) published by the same publisher . Ochsenreiter continues to write for the DMZ . There are articles of his that are printed differently in both magazines. In Vieregge's opinion, he also uses his contributions and interviews “for self-portrayal”; this is how Ochsenreiter integrated his own photos into his reports.

The journalists' commentators include or were u. a .:

  • Manuel Ochsenreiter

Interviews

The interviewees of the magazine included people who are predominantly part of the political right, including well-known right-wing extremists from Germany and other European countries, and others. a .:

Alignment

Specialist journalists for right-wing extremism ( Anton Maegerle (2010), Andreas Speit (2015) and others) and other media representatives are considered to belong to the right-wing extremist spectrum . The world publisher and former Spiegel editor-in-chief Stefan Aust and world journalist Per Hinrichs (2010) describe the magazine as right-wing conservative . According to the rights media dossier (2014) from no-nazi.net , a project of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation , “[the magazine] disseminates topics from the right-wing extremist spectrum in apparently serious form right up to the station kiosks.” It was a “network out right-wing propaganda ”.

In 2010, the historian Volker Weiß said: “The magazine [First!] Is being traded in the scene as the successor to the traditional fascist paper Nation & Europa, which was bought up by Munier , but wants to have a deep impact on established circles. First of all , the magazine covers the same topics as Junge Freiheit , but is more journalistically riotous. "

According to a magazine portrait by Elmar Vieregge in the yearbook Extremism & Democracy (2013) Munier articulated a right-wing extremist attitude in 2009 with "ethnic identity", consisting of xenophobia and the "conviction [...] [,] of having to protect Germany from a deadly threat". The magazine is aimed at "changing society" and is committed to preventing immigration from foreigners. In this way she tries to create a "right counterpart" to the mirror and to address the entire right spectrum . Certain priorities besides immigration are of "special importance for right-wing extremists": reject the established media and parties, instead support a new party to the right of the CDU (the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) is a role model), represent anti-American positions, oppose the rights of homosexuals and the advancement of women, instrumentalize left-wing extremism and crime by foreigners , trivialize right-wing extremism , relativize the Nazi era and disseminate historical revisionist theses, etc. a. the preventive war thesis .

There are also allusions to an alleged “Jewish lobby”. The Central Council of Jews in Germany is referred to in the magazine as the “migrant umbrella organization” and Jews are sometimes portrayed as “scapegoats”.

The sociologist and political scientist Armin Pfahl-Traughber (extremism researcher) and the social scientist David Bebnowski ( Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research ) locate the journal in right-wing extremism. The Potsdam political scientist Gideon Botsch also puts the magazine in an extremely right-wing context.

The documentation archive of Austrian resistance (DÖW, 2015) also describes the magazine as right-wing extremist.

According to the social scientist Samuel Salzborn , the magazine, which, like the National-Zeitung or Der Schlesier, is one of the “periodic networking media in the right-wing spectrum”, is geared towards “mass sales in station bookshops”.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Elmar Vieregge: Magazine portrait: FIRST! In: Uwe Backes , Alexander Gallus , Eckhard Jesse (eds.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy . 25th year Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-1034-8 , pp. 211–228.
  2. ^ Gideon Botsch : Nation Europa (since 1951) . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Hostility to Jews in the past and present . Volume 6: Publications . On behalf of the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-025872-1 , 473 (473).
  3. ↑ Ministry of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein (Ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 2009 . Kiel 2010, p. 75.
  4. ↑ Marc Brandstetter: Klatsche für Verfassungsschutz Schleswig-Holstein: Report 2012 must be blacked out ( memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Right end of the line , June 27, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.endstation-rechts.de
  5. ↑ Andreas Speit : From the swamp . In: taz , December 21, 2009, p. 17.
  6. ↑ a b Hetzblatt "First": DGB criticizes Bauer for legal posture . SPON , December 29, 2011.
  7. ↑ a b Kai-Hinrich Renner: Real Film returns as a daughter of Studio Hamburg . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 18, 2012, No. 42, p. 20.
  8. ^ Andreas Speit : In right company . Look to the right , March 9, 2015.
  9. ↑ Stephan Braun , Alexander Geisler, Ute Vogt : The "Young Freedom" of the "New Right". Federal and state political perspectives on “Young Freedom” and the media of the “New Right” . In: Stephan Braun, Ute Vogt (ed.): The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit". Critical analyzes of the program, content, authors and customers . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15421-3 , p. 22.
  10. ↑ Robert Scholz: Change at the “First!” Top - Ochsenreiter becomes the new editor-in-chief . Right end of the line , March 2nd, 2011.
  11. ^ Anton Maegerle : Cocky ambitions . Looking to the right , January 7, 2010.
  12. ↑ Andreas Speit : Putin's adviser is undesirable . In: Die Tageszeitung , March 6, 2015, p. 7.
  13. ^ Tilman Tzschoppe: Against the "ruling opinion dictatorship of political correctness" . Network against Nazis , April 16, 2010.
  14. ↑ Stefan Aust , Per Hinrichs: Did the state pay for V-Mann Brandt's trip to Africa? . In: Welt am Sonntag , August 31, 2014, No. 35, p. 5.
  15. ^ Dossier: Right-wing media . ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2015 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. no-nazi.net, a project of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation , accessed on May 9, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / no-nazi.net
  16. ↑ Volker Weiß : Right distribution struggles: JF against first! ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2015 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. publikative.org , February 20, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.publikative.org
  17. ↑ Stefan Vennmann, Frank Lattrich: Jew . In: Bente Gießelmann, Robin Heun, Benjamin Kerst, Lenard Suermann, Fabian Virchow (eds.): Concise dictionary of right-wing extremist fighting terms . Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-7344-0155-8 , pp. 162-175, here: pp. 164 f.
  18. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : Who or what is the “Alternative for Germany”? (Rec.). Humanistic Press Service , May 7, 2015.
  19. ^ David Bebnowski : The alternative for Germany. Rise and social representation of a right-wing populist party . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-08285-7 , p. 2.
  20. ^ Gideon Botsch : The extreme right in the Federal Republic of Germany. 1949 to today (= compact history ). WBG, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-23832-3 , p. 134.
  21. ^ DÖW : Rosenkranz among German right-wing extremists . News from the far right , February 2015.
  22. ^ Samuel Salzborn : Right-wing extremism: manifestations and explanatory approaches . 2., act. and exp. Edition Nomos (UTB), Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8252-4476-7 , p. 55 f.