Land og Folk

Land og Folk
Type Daily newspaper
Founded 1919
Political alignment Communist
Language Danish
Ceased publication 1982
Headquarters Copenhagen
OCLC number 70257033

Land og Folk (meaning Land and People in English) was a Danish language communist daily newspaper published in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 1919 and 1982.

History and profile

Land og Folk from April 1945

The newspaper was established as a weekly in 1919 under the name of Arbejdet (meaning Labor in English).[1] In 1920 the paper became the central organ of the Communist Party of Denmark.[2][3] Next year it was renamed as Arbejderbladet (meaning the Worker's Paper in English) following the formation of the federation.[1] In 1934 the paper began to be published daily.[1]

The paper was published with the title of Arbejderbladet until June 1941.[1] On 22 August 1941, the paper was banned.[4] It was renamed as Land og Folk on 1 March 1942[4][5] after it was briefly published as Politiske Maanedsbreve (meaning Political Monthly Letters in English).[1][6] The paper was illegally published by the Danish resistance movement until 1945.[7][8]

In 1950 an automatic Mercedes printing machine and in 1969 a printing press were given to Land og Folk by the East German communist party, SED.[9]

Frede Jakobsen served as the editor-in-chief Land og Folk[10] which was based in Copenhagen.[4][11]

In the 1960s the subscribers of Land og Folk included large number of Russians and the paper was sent to Moscow each day.[9]

In the 1920s its circulation ranged between 4,000 and 6,000 copies.[1] During the next decade its circulation was significantly increased and became nearly 12,000 copies in 1940.[1] By the end of the Nazi occupation in 1945 the paper had a daily circulation of 120,000 copies.[5] During the last six months of 1957 the paper had a circulation of 10,833 copies on weekdays.[12] The circulation of Land og Folk was 7,100 copies in 1975.[2]

Land og Folk ceased publication in 1982.[13]

The photo archive of Land og Folk is kept in Arbejdermuseet (meaning The Workers' Museum in English).[14][15]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Morten Thing (1990). "The Communist Party of Denmark and Comintern 1919-1943" (PDF). Roskilde University Digital Archive.
  2. 1 2 "Land og Folk". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (3rd Edition). 1979. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  3. ↑ Marc E. Vargo (11 September 2012). Women of the Resistance: Eight Who Defied the Third Reich. McFarland. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-4766-0038-3. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 "Land og Folk - Et illegalt blads historie". HSB (in Danish). Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  5. 1 2 David Gilbertson (28 July 2014). The Nightmare Dance: Guilt, Shame, Heroism and the Holocaust. Troubador Publishing Limited. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-78306-609-4. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "The danish Resistance against the German occupation of Denmark 1940-45 under World War 2". Danish Culture. May 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "The Modes of Resistance: How the Danes Demonstrated their Dislike of Nazi Occupation". Resistance. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "Denmark Press". Press References. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  9. 1 2 Morten Thing. "The Communists’ Capital". What Next?. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "Who we are?". Tvind Alert. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  11. ↑ Niels Thomsen (1968). "The Danish Political Press". Scandinavian Political Studies 3. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  12. ↑ Britt-Mari Persson Blegvad (1964). "Newspapers and Rock and Roll Riots in Copenhagen". Acta Sociologica 7 (3). Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  13. ↑ Henrik Søndergaard; Rasmus Helles (29 October 2010). "The case of Denmark". Media policies and regulatory practices in a selected set of European countries, the EU and the Council of Europe (PDF). The Mediadem Consortium (Athens). Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  14. ↑ "Arbejdermuseet Museum and the Labour Movement Library and Archives". Europeana. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  15. ↑ "The Workers’ Museum: Home to History". Digital Meets Culture. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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