Junge Welt
German daily newspaper
Junge Welt (English: Young World, stylized in its logo as junge Welt) is a German daily newspaper, published in Berlin. The jW describes itself as a left-wing and Marxist newspaper. German authorities categorize it as a far-left medium hostile to the constitutional order.
History and profile
Junge Welt was first published on 12 February 1947 in the Soviet Sector of Berlin. The paper became the official newspaper of the Central Council (Zentralrat) of the Free German Youth (FDJ), the communist youth organisation, on 12 November 1947. With a daily circulation of 1.38 million, Junge Welt had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the German Democratic Republic, even higher than the official Socialist Unity Party organ Neues Deutschland.
The paper was published by Verlag Junge Welt GmbH during the East German era. The paper was allegedly sold for a symbolic price of 1 Mark to a West Berlin publishing house in 1991. It was relaunched in 1994, after German reunification and the effective dissolution of the Free German Youth as Germany's most left-wing daily newspaper. The new editorial team included both East and West German authors of different left factions.
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