- Junge Freiheit
The "Junge Freiheit" (JF, "Young Freedom") is a German weekly newspaper for politics and culture.
History
It was founded by students in
Freiburg im Breisgau in1986 as a reaction to as what they saw as the "dominance of the leftist 68' generation" among university teachers. In 1993 it moved its headquarter toPotsdam , nearBerlin , and to Hohenzollerndamm in Berlin in1995 . In1994 , a printing site for the JF inWeimar was attacked by far-left terrorists with a firebomb and damage totaling 2.5 million marks. The paper moved to Berlin a few years later, where it is still published today.Issues and Style
The "Junge Freiheit" has a big section for
Politics , one forCulture and forForeign Affairs . Economics are underrepresented. Opinions and commentaries are also a major part of the paper. There are some authors who contribute regular columns. Every week the paper has an interview with some prominent politician, author, scientist or artist. "Junge Freiheit" has a circulation of around 35,000 copies today.People
The founder and editor-in-chief as well as managing director is
Dieter Stein . Regularly contributing authors are for exampleAndreas Mölzer ,Alain de Benoist andKarlheinz Weißmann .Among its prominent contributors are
Helmut Markwort ,Wolf Jobst Siedler ,Frederick Forsyth ,Rolf Hochhuth ,Ralph Raico andDerek Turner .Controversy
In 1995, the Office for Protection of the Constitution in
North Rhine-Westphalia first listed the Junge Freiheit asfar-right andextremist in their publications. The paper went through all courts suing the Office based on the right of Free Speech. The paper's lawyer in this case wasAlexander von Stahl , former German attorney-general and FDP politician. Finally, in 2005, the German Constitutional Court ruled in favour of the paper which can not be called right-wing-extremist by the State Offices for the Protection of the Constitution without proof.External links
* [http://www.junge-freiheit.de Junge Freiheit] de icon
* [http://www.jf-archiv.de Online archive of Junge Freiheit] de iconLiterature
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Alexander von Stahl : "Kampf um die Pressefreiheit. Chronologie eines Skandals. Die Verfassungsbeschwerde der Wochenzeitung 'Junge Freiheit' wegen Verletzung der Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit durch Verfassungsschutzberichte des Landes NRW." Reihe Dokumentation, Edition JF, Berlin 2003/2004, Band 5-7: ISBN , ISBN , ISBN
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