Unsere Zeit

Unsere Zeit (or UZ) is a newspaper published by the German Communist Party, or DKP. The paper's full name is Unsere Zeit: Sozialistische Wochenzeitung. This translates to Our Time: Socialist Weekly Newspaper.

Unsere Zeit
Typeweekly newspaper
FormatBerliner
PublisherGerman Communist Party
Founded1969 (1969)
Political alignmentCommunism
LanguageGerman
HeadquartersDüsseldorf
Websiteunsere zeit

History and profile

Unsere Zeit was established in Düsseldorf in 1969.[1] It is the organ of the German Communist Party.[1]

Its circulation was 60,000 copies in 1975.[1] The weekly paper co-operates with the small German newspaper junge Welt.

Festival

UZ-Pressefest in the 1970s

The biannual UZ-Pressefest has been the largest festival of the political left in Germany.[2] Since 1973, it has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors and nationally famous musicians such as Konstantin Wecker and Hannes Wader.

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References

  1. "Unsere Zeit". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  2. David Robb (2007). Protest Song in East and West Germany Since the 1960s. Camden House. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-57113-281-9. Retrieved 5 December 2014.


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