Volksstimme (Austrian newspaper)
{{Short description|Daily newspaper in Austria (1945–1991)}}
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| political = Communism
| language = German
| ceased publication = 3 March 1991
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| headquarters = Vienna
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Volksstimme (German: People’s Voice) was a communist newspaper published between 5 August 1945 and 3 March 1991 in Vienna, Austria.
History and profile
The newspaper was first published in Vienna on 5 August 1945 under the name of Österreichische Volksstimme (German: Austrian People's Voice).{{cite encyclopedia|title=Volksstimme|encyclopedia=Aeiou Encyclopedia
|url=http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.v/v806451.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en}}{{cite encyclopedia
|title=Volksstimme|encyclopedia=Great Soviet Encyclopedia|year=1979|url=http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Volksstimme}} The paper was the organ of the Austrian Communist Party.{{cite book|author=William B. Bader|title=Austria Between East and West, 1945-1955|isbn=978-0-8047-0258-4|url=https://archive.org/details/austriabetweenea0000bade|url-access=registration
|year=1966|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford, CA|page=[https://archive.org/details/austriabetweenea0000bade/page/228 228]}} The founding publisher was Globus Verlag. Its sister publication was a monthly theoretical journal entitled Weg und Ziel.{{cite book|author=J. Wilczynski|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Marxism, Socialism and Communism|publisher=De Gruyter|year=2019|isbn=978-3-11-085205-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u0G0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA97|location=Berlin; New York|page=97}}
The paper was renamed as Volksstimme on 21 February 1957. Its frequency was also changed over time: it was started as a daily, but then it began to be published on a weekly basis.{{cite web|author=Roland Graf|title=Anachronism or sting in the flesh? The remarkable success of regional Communist newspapers in Austria|format=Conference paper|publisher=Oxford Austrian Studies Association|year=2002|url=https://users.ox.ac.uk/~oaces/conference/papers.html|archive-date=1 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601005347/https://users.ox.ac.uk/~oaces/conference/papers.html}} It published news on national and international affairs as well as official party documents. The paper was also a platform for the fractions within the party to express and defend their views about the events.{{cite journal|author=Kevin Devlin|title=Czechoslovakia and the Crisis of Austrian Communism|journal=Studies in Comparative Communism|date=July–October 1969|volume=2|issue=3–4|page=19|jstor=45366910}} Georg Auer worked for the paper as a motoring correspondent in the 1950s.{{cite news|author=Richard Johnson|title=Celebrating our man in Vienna|work=Automotive News|date=23 October 2000|access-date=15 December 2014|url=http://www.autonews.com/article/20001023/ANA/10230815/celebrating-our-man-in-vienna}}
Volkstimme was deeply affected from the Soviet activities in Europe during the Cold War due to its reports and the different approaches in the Communist Party. After the 1956 events in Hungary the paper was censored by the Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab.{{cite journal|author=Johanna Granville|title=Between Scylla and Charybdis: Austria's First Test Case of Neutrality during the Hungarian Crisis, 1956–57|journal=Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics|year=2010|volume=26
|page=511|issue=4|doi=10.1080/13523279.2010.519188|s2cid=144313200}} Following the Prague Spring and the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union a conflict occurred in the Austrian Communist Party which also affected Volksstimme in that most of its reporters left the paper in 1968. It ceased publication on 3 March 1991.{{cite web|title=Austria Press and Media|url=http://www.pressreference.com/A-Be/Austria.html|work=Press Reference|access-date=15 December 2014}}{{cite book|editor1=Mary Kelly|editor2=Gianpietro Mazzoleni|editor3=Denis McQuail|title=The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HYCVxSFNNpkC&pg=PA5|year=2004|publisher=SAGE Publishing|isbn=978-0-7619-4131-6|page=5
|location=London; Thousand Oaks, California}}
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Category:1945 establishments in Austria
Category:1991 disestablishments in Austria
Category:Censorship in Austria
Category:Communist Party of Austria
Category:Daily newspapers published in Austria
Category:Defunct newspapers published in Austria
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Category:German-language newspapers published in Austria
Category:German-language communist newspapers
Category:Newspapers established in 1945
Category:Newspapers published in Vienna