Junge Welt

junge Welt (meaning "Young World" in English) is a German daily newspaper, published in Berlin.[2] The jW describes itself as a left and Marxist newspaper.[3] German authorities categorize it as a far-left medium hostile to the constitutional order.[4]

junge Welt
TypeDaily newspaper (Monday to Saturday)
FormatBerliner
Owner(s)8. Mai GmbH
PublisherLPG junge Welt e. G.
EditorStefan Huth
Founded12 February 1947 (12 February 1947)
Political alignmentMarxism
LanguageGerman
HeadquartersBerlin
Circulation25,600–27,900 [1]
ISSN0941-9373
Websitehttp://www.jungewelt.de/

History and profile

junge Welt was first published on 12 February 1947 in the Soviet Sector of Berlin. The paper became the official newspaper of the Central Council (Zentralrat) of the Free German Youth (FDJ), the communist youth organisation, on 12 November 1947.[5][6][7] With a daily circulation of 1.38 million,[8] junge Welt had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the German Democratic Republic, even higher than the official Communist party organ Neues Deutschland.[8]

It was relaunched in 1994,[5] after German reunification and the effective dissolution of the FDJ, as Germany's most left-wing daily newspaper. The new editorial team included both East and West German authors of different left factions. In 1997, a schism between these two camps led to the eventual foundation of the weekly Jungle World, which since strongly denounced anti-Zionist views upheld by their former colleagues.[9] The newspaper has been accused by six of its own authors[9] and others[7] of uncritically reporting on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran's nuclear "ambitions".

According to the Annual Report of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, "the national daily newspaper junge Welt is the most important printed medium in the left-wing extremist scene" in Germany.[10][11] Arnold Schölzel, editor-in-chief of the newspaper from 2000 to 2016, has admitted to being a Stasi informant.[12]

Junge Welt had an estimated print run of around 25,600–27,900 in 2017.[13]

See also

References
  1. "Mediadaten junge Welt" [media information junge Welt] (PDF). junge Welt (in German). Berlin. 1 October 2017.
  2. "Impressum". Junge Welt (in German). Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. "Über diese Zeitung". junge Welt (in German). Berlin. section Was ist die junge Welt?. ISSN 0941-9373. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. van Hüllen, Rudolf (22 December 2014). "Linksextreme Medien" (in German). Federal Agency for Civic Education. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  5. "Über diese Zeitung". junge Welt (in German). Berlin. section Kurze Geschichte der jungen Welt. ISSN 0941-9373. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  6. "Lexikon > Sachbegriffe > Junge Welt (JW)". jugend opposition in der DDR (in German). Jugendopposition.de. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  7. Kamalipour, Yahya R. (2010). Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age: The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-4422-0415-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  8. Pürer, Heinz; Raabe, Johannes (25 July 2007). Presse in Deutschland (in German). UTB. ISBN 978-3-8385-8334-1.
  9. Kilpert, Daniel (28 November 2006). "Antisemitismus von links" (in German). Federal Agency for Civic Education. p. 2. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  10. "Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2008" (PDF). Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. 2009. p. 128. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2010. One important printed medium in the left-wing "extremist" scene is the national daily newspaper junge Welt (jW, young world).
  11. Verfassungsschutzbericht 2011. S. 173. Available online: "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. Christian Buß, “Spitzel mit Spitzenleistung”, Spiegel-online (11 July 2007)
  13. "Mediadaten junge Welt" [media information junge Welt] (PDF). junge Welt (in German). Berlin. 1 October 2017.
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