Junge Freiheit

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Junge Freiheit
File:Junge Freiheit logo.jpg
Type Weekly newspaper
Editor Dieter Stein
Founded 1986
Political alignment right-wing conservative
Language German
Headquarters Berlin, Germany
Circulation 24,294 (Q3, 2015)
Website www.jungefreiheit.de

The Junge Freiheit (JF, Young Freedom) is a German weekly newspaper for politics and culture, established in 1986. It is considered a mouthpiece of the Neue Rechte ("New Right") movement,[1][2] working as a link, "bridge" or "hinge" between mainstream conservatism and the extreme right.[3][4][5][6]

History

JF was founded by students in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1986 on the initiative of then nineteen-year-old Dieter Stein. The founders described the newspaper as a reaction to the "dominance of the leftist 68's generation" among university teachers. In 1993 the newspaper moved its headquarters to Potsdam, near Berlin, and to Hohenzollerndamm in Berlin in 1995. In 1994, a printing site for the JF in Weimar was fire-bombed by far left terrorists with damage totalling 2.5 million marks. The paper moved to Berlin a few years later, where it continues to be published today.[7] JF had a circulation of more than 24,000 sold issues as of third quarter 2015.[8]

Issues and style

The JF has one section for politics, one for culture and for foreign affairs, with lesser attention to economics. There are a substantial number of opinions and commentaries including weekly opinion columns. Every week the paper also conducts an interview with a prominent politician, author, scientist or artist.

The Junge Freiheit ruling

JF was involved in a legal battle relating to the freedom of the press against two state authorities for the Protection of the Constitution (German domestic intelligence service), in which the newspaper was represented by its lawyer and frequent supporter, former German attorney-general Alexander von Stahl. The Offices for the Protection of the Constitution in two federal states, North Rhine Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg, had mentioned Junge Freiheit in their yearly reports of alleged "anti-constitutional activities" between 1995 and 2005. The newspaper successfully sued the North Rhine Westphalia local authorities, and the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled such classification to be unconstitutional in 2005 (the so-called "Office for the Protection of the Constitution report case"[9] or "Junge Freiheit Case"[10]). Since then, neither North Rhine Westphalia nor Baden-Württemberg constitution protection reports have mentioned the newspaper.

People

The founder and editor-in-chief as well as managing director of JF is Dieter Stein.

Its prominent contributors include Holger Zastrow, Wolf Jobst Siedler, Frederick Forsyth, Alain de Benoist, Paul Gottfried, Elliot Neaman, Rolf Hochhuth, Ralph Raico, Derek Turner, Klaus Rainer Röhl, and Fritz Schenk. Among its prominent public supporters are also Alexander von Stahl and Peter Scholl-Latour.

Gerhard Löwenthal Prize

The Junge Freiheit issued a prize for journalists together with Ingeborg Löwenthal, the widow of Gerhard Löwenthal, a Jewish German journalist, that is named in his honour. Recipients of the prize have been:

  • 2004 Thorsten Hinz, writes for Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung and Sezession
  • 2005 Stefan Scheil, historian
  • 2006 Thomas Paulwitz, founder of the magazine Deutsche Sprachwelt[11]
  • 2007 Andreas Krause Landt, founder of the Landt Verlag
  • 2008 Ellen Kositza, author
  • 2009 André F. Lichtschlag, founder of the magazine eigentümlich frei
  • 2011 Michael Paulwitz, writes for Sezession

A special honorary prize has been awarded to:

Notes

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  7. Dieter Stein: Der vergessene Terror, JF, 4 December 2014
  8. Titelanzeige Junge Freiheit, IVW, 3/2015.
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  11. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Lesesaal: Thomas Paulwitz

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