Unsere Zeit
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatBerliner
Owner(s)Party executive of the German Communist Party
PublisherGerman Communist Party
Editor-in-chiefWera Richter[1]
Founded1969 (1969)
Political alignmentCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
LanguageGerman
HeadquartersDüsseldorf
Circulation6,000 (June 2012)[2]
Websitewww.unsere-zeit.de

Unsere Zeit (UZ) is a weekly newspaper published by the German Communist Party. The paper's full name is Unsere Zeit: Sozialistische Wochenzeitung (transl.Our Time: Socialist Weekly Newspaper).

History and profile

Unsere Zeit was established in Düsseldorf in 1969.[3] It is the organ of the German Communist Party.[3]

Its circulation was 60,000 copies in 1975.[3] 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.[4] Since 1973, it has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors and nationally famous musicians such as Konstantin Wecker and Hannes Wader.

References

  1. Ipressum
  2. http://www.dkp-online.de/uz/anz/
  3. 1 2 3 "Unsere Zeit". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  4. 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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