Unsere Zeit

Unsere Zeit
Type	weekly newspaper
Format	Berliner
Owner(s)	party executive of the DKP
Publisher	German Communist Party
Editor-in-chief	Wera Richter
Founded	1969; 52 years ago
Political alignment	Communism
Language	German
Headquarters	Düsseldorf
Website	unsere zeit

Unsere Zeit (or UZ) is a newspaper published by the German Communist Party, or DKP. The paper's full name is Unsere Zeit: Sozialistische Wochenzeitung. This translates to Our Time: Socialist Weekly Newspaper.

History and profile[]

Unsere Zeit was established in Düsseldorf in 1969.^[2] It is the organ of the German Communist Party.^[2]

Its circulation was 60,000 copies in 1975.^[2] 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.^[3] Since 1973, it has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors and nationally famous musicians such as Konstantin Wecker and Hannes Wader.

References[]

^ Ipressum
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Unsere Zeit". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
^ 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.

External links[]

Unsere Zeit (UZ): Socialist weekly newspaper (in German)
German Communist Party - DKP (in German)

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[1] Ipressum

[gse-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Unsere Zeit". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Retrieved 5 December 2014.

[3] 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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