Freie Erde
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Founded1952
Political alignmentCommunist
LanguageGerman
Ceased publication1990
HeadquartersNeubrandenburg
CountryGerman Democratic Republic
ISSN0427-5187
OCLC number724281908

Freie Erde (German: Free Earth) was a German-language daily newspaper published in the German Democratic Republic. Its title was changed to Nordkurier following the unification in 1990.

History and profile

Freie Erde was established in 1952 as one of the newspapers published in the German Democratic Republic.[1][2][3] The paper was the organ of the provincial branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.[4][5] Although it was originally started to serve for Neubrandenburg, it was first published in Neustrelitz, and in April 1974 its headquarters moved to Neubrandenburg.[2][3] As of 1959 the paper had editions in fourteen smalls towns in the Berlin area.[6]

Freie Erde was published in broadsheet format and consisted of eight pages.[7]

Following the unification of Germany the paper ceased publication in 1990[1] and was renamed as Nordkurier which was owned by Kurierverlag GmbH in 2009.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Die Zeitung Freie Erde ist entziffert". Foto Community (in German). 21 May 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Andrea Czepek; Ulrike Klinger (2010). "Media Pluralism Between Market Mechanisms and Control: The German Divide". International Journal of Communication. 4: 820–843. doi:10.5167/uzh-39473.
  3. 1 2 "Vom Parteiorgan zur seriösen Tageszeitung". Nordkurier (in German). 1 October 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Bestandsverzeichnis. Zeitungen" (PDF). Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German). Bonn. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  5. ↑ Jörg Becker (1988). Paper technology and the third world. Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit.
  6. ↑ John Brown Mason (June 1959). "Government, Administration, and Politics in East Germany: A Selected Bibliography". American Political Science Review. 53 (2): 516. doi:10.2307/1952161. JSTOR 1952161. S2CID 251095627.
  7. ↑ Philip Barker (4 June 2009). "Erich Honecker: My part in his downfall". SJA. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
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