junge Welt
{{short description|Left-wing German daily newspaper}}
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| name = Junge Welt
| logo = Junge Welt Logo.svg
| logo_size = 200px
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| type = Daily newspaper (Monday to Saturday)
| format = Berliner
| owners = LPG junge Welt e. G.
| founder =
| publisher = Verlag 8. Mai GmbH
| editor = Stefan Huth
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| foundation = {{start date and age|12 February 1947}}
| political = Marxism
| language = German
| ceased publication =
| headquarters = Berlin
| circulation = 25,600–27,900 (2017){{Cite news|title=Mediadaten junge Welt|newspaper=junge Welt| location=Berlin|date=1 October 2017|language=de|trans-title=media information junge Welt |url=https://www.jungewelt.de/downloads/mediadaten-10-2017.pdf}}
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| ISSN = 0941-9373
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| website = {{url|jungewelt.de}}
}}
Junge Welt (English: Young World, stylized in its logo as junge Welt) is a German daily newspaper, published in Berlin.{{cite journal |title=Impressum|journal=Junge Welt |url=https://www.jungewelt.de/kontakt/impressum.php |access-date=6 June 2020 |language=de}} The jW describes itself as a left-wing and Marxist newspaper.{{Cite news|title=Über diese Zeitung|at=section Was ist die junge Welt?|newspaper=junge Welt|location=Berlin|issn=0941-9373
|url=http://www.jungewelt.de/ueber_uns/diese_zeitung.php|access-date=6 June 2020|language=de}} German authorities categorize it as a far-left medium hostile to the constitutional order.{{cite news |last1=van Hüllen |first1=Rudolf |title=Linksextreme Medien |url=https://www.bpb.de/politik/extremismus/linksextremismus/33630/medien |access-date=6 June 2020 |publisher=Federal Agency for Civic Education |date=22 December 2014 |language=de}}
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.{{Cite news|title=Über diese Zeitung|at=section Kurze Geschichte der jungen Welt|newspaper=junge Welt|location=Berlin|issn=0941-9373|url=http://www.jungewelt.de/ueber_uns/diese_zeitung.php|access-date=6 June 2020|language=de}}{{cite web |title=Lexikon > Sachbegriffe > Junge Welt (JW) |url=https://www.jugendopposition.de/lexikon/sachbegriffe/148453/junge-welt-jw |website=jugend opposition in der DDR |publisher=Jugendopposition.de |access-date=6 June 2020 |language=de}}{{cite book |last1=Kamalipour |first1=Yahya R. |title=Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age: The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran |date=2010 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=978-1-4422-0415-7 |page=75 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7rwNUbBUtQEC&q=junge+welt+Ahmadinejad&pg=PA75 |access-date=6 June 2020}} With a daily circulation of 1.38 million,{{Cite book|last1=Pürer|first1=Heinz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2duupKfupwC&q=Junge+Welt+1,38+Mio.+Exemplaren&pg=PA194|title=Presse in Deutschland|last2=Raabe|first2=Johannes|date=25 July 2007|publisher=UTB|isbn=978-3-8385-8334-1|language=de}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.ddr-museum.de/en/objects/1021828 |title=Zeitung "Junge Welt" – 17. Oktober 1989 |author= |date=n.d. |website=ddr-museum.de |location=Berlin |publisher=DDR Museum Berlin GmbH |language=de |access-date=19 August 2021 }}{{cite news |last=Koschmieder |first=Dietmar |date=30 April 2018 |title=Wem gehört die junge Welt? |url=https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/331691.wem-geh%C3%B6rt-die-junge-welt.html |language= |newspaper=Junge Welt |location=Berlin |publisher=8. Mai GmbH |access-date= }} The paper was allegedly sold for a symbolic price of 1 Mark to a West Berlin publishing house in 1991.{{cite news |author= |date=14 October 2016 |title="Junge Welt" sieht Existenz gefährdet: Mit einer Million in den Miesen |url=https://taz.de/Junge-Welt-sieht-Existenz-gefaehrdet/!5348748/ |language=German |newspaper=Die Tageszeitung |publisher=taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH |location=Berlin |access-date=19 August 2021 }} 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. In 1997, a schism between these two camps led to the eventual foundation of the weekly Jungle World, which since strongly denounced anti-Zionist views upheld by their former colleagues.{{cite news |last1=Kilpert |first1=Daniel |title=Antisemitismus von links |url=https://www.bpb.de/politik/extremismus/antisemitismus/37960/antisemitismus-von-links?p=2 |publisher=Federal Agency for Civic Education |access-date=6 June 2020 |date=28 November 2006 |page=2 |language=de}} The newspaper has been criticised by six of its own authors and others for not being sufficiently critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran in relation to their nuclear "ambitions".
Junge Welt is published by Verlag 8. Mai GmbH. The cooperative Linke Presse Verlags-Förderungs und -Beteiligungsgenossenschaft (LPG) junge Welt e.G. began preparing to take over the majority of the publishing house in 1997.{{cite news |author= |date=8 July 1997 |title=Linke Presse will Mehrheit an Verlag 8. Mai |url=https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/667531.linke-presse-will-mehrheit-an-verlag-mai.html |language=German |work=Neues Deutschland |location=Berlin |publisher=Neues Deutschland Druckerei und Verlag GmbH |access-date=31 October 2021 }} The cooperative LPG junge Welt e.G. now owns the majority of Verlag 8. Mai GmbH. According to the Annual Report of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, "the
national daily newspaper Junge Welt is the most important printed medium in the left-wing extremist scene" in Germany.{{Cite web|url=http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/download/SHOW/vsbericht_2008_engl.pdf |title=Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2008 |year=2009 |publisher=Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution |page=128 |access-date=26 September 2010|quote=One important printed medium in the left-wing "extremist" scene is the national daily newspaper junge Welt (jW, young world).|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927104353/http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/download/SHOW/vsbericht_2008_engl.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2011 }}Verfassungsschutzbericht 2011. S. 173. Available online: {{cite web |url=http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/download/SHOW/vsbericht_2011_vorabfassung.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=5 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121032746/http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/download/SHOW/vsbericht_2011_vorabfassung.pdf |archive-date=21 January 2013 }} Junge Welt had an estimated print run of around 25,600–27,900 in 2017.{{Cite news| title = Mediadaten junge Welt| newspaper=junge Welt| location = Berlin| date = 1 October 2017| language = de|trans-title=media information junge Welt |url=https://www.jungewelt.de/downloads/mediadaten-10-2017.pdf}} Junge Welt unsuccessfully filed a lawsuit against being named in the report on the protection of the constitution and lost in court in March 2022.{{Cite news|url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wochenende/berliner-verwaltungsgericht-eilantrag-von-junge-welt-abgelehnt-li.218991 |newspaper=Berliner Zeitung| title=Berliner Verwaltungsgericht: Eilantrag von Junge Welt abgelehnt |language = de |date=25 March 2022}}
Arnold Schölzel, who was editor-in-chief of the newspaper from 2000 to 2016, was a Stasi informant until 1989.Christian Buß, [http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,493872,00.html "Spitzel mit Spitzenleistung]", Spiegel-online (11 July 2007)
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