junge Welt ("Young World") is a
Marxist German daily newspaper published in
Berlin. It was first published on
12 February 1947 in the Soviet Sector of Berlin.
Junge Welt (as it was capitalized then) became the official newspaper of the Central Council
(Zentralrat) of the
Free German Youth on
12 November 1947. With a daily circulation of 1.4 million,
Junge Welt had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the
German Democratic Republic, even higher than the official Communist party organ
Neues Deutschland. It was relaunched in 1994, after
German reunification and the effective dissolution of the
FDJ, as Germany's leftmost daily newspaper.
The new editorial team included both East and West German authors of different left factions, notably a more "traditional" Marxist anti-imperialist and a post-working-class faction of mostly West-German origin, which was increasingly influenced by Antifa, autonomist, Pop-left, and post-structuralist currents. In 1997 a schism between these two camps led to the eventual foundation of the weekly Jungle World, which since strongly denounced the traditional Marxist views upheld by their former colleagues.
Today, junge Welt it is the smallest nationwide daily newspaper in Germany with a claimed readership of approximately 50,000, although the print run has been estimated at under 20,000.
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