Freie Welt

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The Freie Welt (Free World) was a GDR magazine published by Berliner Verlag. It served as the GDR's foreign illustrated magazine. It was published by the Society for German-Soviet Friendship and, like other press organs of the GDR, was subordinate to the Agitation Department of the Central Committee of the SED. [1] [2] The magazine was published from 1954 until 1991.


Berliner Verlag builing in 1984. The state publishing house edited Berliner Zeitung, BZ am Abend, Fur Dich, Freie Welt, Wochenpost, and Horizont. Berliner Verlag.jpg
Berliner Verlag builing in 1984. The state publishing house edited Berliner Zeitung , BZ am Abend , Für Dich,Freie Welt, Wochenpost, and Horizont.

Freie Welt primarily reported on politics, economics, culture, science, sports, and everyday life in the Soviet Union, the GDR, and the other countries allied with the USSR. It was supplemented by reports from young nation states that were close to socialism, and since the mid-1980s, occasionally from Western countries.

The magazine had a permanent foreign office in Moscow and correspondents in Prague, Budapest, and Warsaw. Herbert Hensky and Helfried Strauß, among others, worked for the magazine as press photographers. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Gunter Holzweißig: In: Simone Barck, Martina Langermann, Siegfried Lokatis (Hrsg.): Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1999, S. 535 ff.
  2. 1 2 Fiedler, Anke (2014). Medienlenkung in der DDR. Zeithistorische Studien. Köln Weimar Wien: Böhlau Verlag. ISBN   978-3-412-21055-7.


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