Junge Welt

Junge Welt ("Young World") is a German daily newspaper published in Berlin. It was first published on 12 February 1947 in the Soviet Sector of Berlin. Junge Welt became the official newspaper of the Central Council (Zentralrat) of the Free German Youth on 12 November 1947. With a daily circulation of 1.4 million, 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. It was relaunched in 1994, after German reunification and the effective dissolution of the FDJ, as Germany's leftmost daily newspaper. The new editorial team included both East and West German authors of different left factions, notably a more "traditional" Marxist anti-imperialist and an anti-German faction.^{[citation needed]} 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, which they feel to be an antisemitic link to right-wing NPD.^[2] According to media reports, its editor-in-chief since 2000, Arnold Schölzel, was a Stasi informant^[3].

Today, Junge Welt it is the smallest nationwide daily newspaper in Germany with a claimed readership of approximately 50,000, although the print run has been estimated at 17,000.

According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution the Junge Welt is the most important left-wing extremist publication in Germany.^[4].

References

1. ^ Retrieved from [1] (German)
2. ^ Jungle World: Rotbraunes Waffenarsenal ("A red-brown arsenal"), Ivo Bozic, February 1st 2006
3. ^ http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,493872,00.html
4. ^ http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/download/SHOW/vsbericht2008.pdf

External links

• junge Welt website

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