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The article covers various topics, including the desecration of the Cologne Synagogue in 1959, the role of journalists in early West Germany, the struggle for academic freedom at the Free University of Berlin in the 1960s, the relationship between Joachim Gauck and Helga Hirsch, as well as the silence of legal elites regarding the past of German jurisprudence during National Socialism. The author also mentions the rejection of an article on the past of German jurisprudence by the FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and the collective concealment of a covert constitutional amendment by the German Bundestag and Bundesrat in 2017. In this text, the author criticizes the constitutional issues related to the introduction of "marriage for all" in Germany. He criticizes the fact that the societal dimension of this change was not mentioned in the legislative bodies and that the constitutionality of the law was not sufficiently discussed. The author accuses the Chancellor of bypassing constitutional review of the law with her statement in a women's magazine. He also criticizes the lack of media response to his inquiries on other topics. The author laments the decline in morals and the lack of press freedom. [Extracted from the article]

The article deals with the research of the German-language press in Brazil and the Americas. Between 1824 and 1952, around 350,000 German immigrants came to Brazil, and over 600 German-language newspapers, magazines, and reports were created. These publications played a significant role in cultural life and shaped everyday life in various cities. Unfortunately, many of these documents were erased from Brazilian historiography by a nationalist dictatorship in the late 1930s. Nevertheless, the German language remains present in many families and institutions and is now generating great interest again. The disclosure of these documents allows for a renewed visibility and appreciation of this cultural heritage. The digitization and research of the German-language press are seen as an opportunity to better understand and appreciate the importance of German. [Extracted from the article]

The article "How are liturgical books created?" deals with the process of creating liturgical books for an entire language area. Various occasions and objectives for the publication of such books are discussed, with the liturgy interacting with other areas and aspects. The article also sheds light on the development of liturgical books after the Reformation and the Council of Trent in the 16th century, as well as the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. It is emphasized that since then, the liturgy can be celebrated in the vernacular languages, resulting in new conditions and challenges. The article describes the process of creating liturgical books in the Catholic Church, with the responsibility for publication being transferred to the bishops' conferences. The need for revisions of liturgical books is pointed out, and questions regarding the plausibility of the liturgy in a secularized society and a damaged church are raised. [Extracted from the article]

Recently has been much discussion and research on the credibility of the media and on trust or mistrust towards them, at the latest since the crises of 2015, in connection with a general disenchantment with politics and the state. In particular, right-wing populist and radical populations have insulted the established media as the “lying press” in order to articulate their rejection and contempt, indeed their hatred of society, the state and its institutions. In the Federal Republic, too, considerable research efforts were launched to work out, together with international research, the forms and motives, connections and causes of this hostility towards the media. Even special long-term studies were initiated alongside the existing ones to work out continuities, but also changes in these social movements and phenomena. However, critical replication shows that not even the central paradigms are clear and unambiguous and that the data collected for this purpose is quite broad and unspecific. Focusing on socio-demographic data, the agreements and discrepancies also turn out differently, since the diverse publics differ considerably, especially at the border between established and new or digital media and their use. Thus, in the end, the supposedly concrete paradigms turn out to be abstract currencies for the blanket legitimacy and performance capacities of the media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) and notes that despite its tenth anniversary in 2022, interest in it is low. The Covid-19 pandemic and the Conference on the Future of Europe have led to a decline in the use of the ECI. The political debate mainly focuses on new forms of participation, while strengthening the existing instrument is only mentioned in passing. Scientific research on the ECI remains a niche topic, although some analyses of its impact and mobilization of support have been published. The media plays an important role in providing information on European politics, but there are challenges in reporting due to different national publics and the low market value of European politics. The digital transformation offers opportunities to make European politics more popular and reach new target groups, but EU correspondents warn against diluting the professionalism and control function of EU news journalism. The Conference on the Future of Europe has provided impetus for European media and public policy and discussed various media policy initiatives. The EU has already taken initiatives to strengthen press freedom, including the Digital Services Act and direct sanctions against media institutions. The future of European media policy lies in securing press freedom and promoting new digital forums for the exchange of European political content. [Extracted from the article]

Compared to the Habsburg era, when Yiddish writings were hardly printed in Bukovina - due to the centralized policy of Vienna and the openness towards integration and assimilation on the part of numerous Bukovinian Jews, as well as because of the status of Yiddish as the language of uneducated Jews - the Yiddish printing industry, as well as the Yiddish libraries didn't develop until the early 1920s, simultaneously with the emergence of national identity concepts. This paper is based on descriptive research and discusses the importance of these institutions in shaping trajectories of cultural, national and linguistic identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the 28th of February and 1th of March the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions organized a conference about "Library Publishing" in Dublin, Ireland. Hosted by Dublin Business School (DBS) lecturers from Europe and North America discussed publication projects, challenges and perspectives of library publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article representatives of TU Wien Academic Press answer six questions around the topic of Open Access. The contribution was developed in the course of the work of the sub-working group "University presses and universityrelated publishers" of the sub-project 4 "Promotion of Open Access Publications and Alternative Open Access Publication Models" of the Higher Education Area Structural Funds project Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA) (https:// www.at2oa.at/en/home.html) and is part of a series of interviews initiated on the basis of the series "Five questions to …" of the Berlin University of Technology library to find out more about the attitude of Austrian publishers towards Open Access. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In June 1947 Paul Tillich signed a contract with The University of Chicago Press for a 'Systematic Theology' in two volumes. Having published the first volume in April 1951, he asked the publisher to split the second volume into two parts, which were published in 1957 as volume II and 1963 as volume III. In this article the different editions of 'Systematic Theology' are described, and the economic aspects of writing and publishing this very influential academic book are explained. Many unknown sources are presented. Some of them show Tillich as an author in real despair. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a report from an October 15, 2026 conference on church history and biography after 1945 hosted in Bonn, Germany by the Förderverein für Neuere Geschichte an der Universität Bonn e.V. historical society. Topics of presentations delivered include the history of the Catholic weekly periodical "Publik", politician and theologian Karl Forster's role in West German Catholicism, and a biography of German Catholic politician Rainer Barzel.

The article presents a report from a September 15-17, 2016 conference on the modern history of the papacy hosted in Weingarten, Germany by the Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart academy and the historical society of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese. Topics of presentations delivered include ceremonies at the pontificate in the 19th and 20th centuries, the historical depictions of papal deaths in news media, and self-depictions and other depiction of Pope Pius X.

In the regular elections for the new DEGAM presidency, Prof. Dr. med. Martin Scherer was reconfirmed as president, Prof. Dr. med. Eva Hummers as vice president, and Prof. Dr. med. Jean-François Chenot as another vice president. New sections such as "Digitalization" and "Climate Change and Health" were also introduced. The new executive presidency also includes Edmund Fröhlich as treasurer and Prof. Dr. med. Erika Baum as an assessor and past president. New spokespersons for the various sections were also elected. The term of office for all members of the presidency is three years. [Extracted from the article]

The spectrum of subjects the IFLA Newspapers Section (in future: News Media Section) has to deal with has broadened considerably due to retrodigitization and the development of new digital news media. Conferences in 2014 treated - among others - the following subjects: digital deposit copy collections and new tasks of libraries concerning news media, digitization of newspapers, especially the Europeana Newspapers Project, use outlines and activities of libraries for attractive, user-friendly access to historic newspapers. OCR improvement, Named Entity Recognition and automated linking procedures as ways to optimize research in newspapers were also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1868 the Hungarian Government began publishing the weekly magazine "Neptanitok lapja" (People's Teachers' Journal). Until 1874 the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Education edited translations of the original Hungarian magazine into German, Slovak, Croatian, Romanian, Serbian and Ruthene. The initiative had the stated goal of contributing to the improvement of all teachers' professional training. At least for the first six years the magazine's teaching character is questionable due to its content, the poor quality of the Romanian translation, as well as the unjustified refusal of the editorial staff, to popularize helpful topics for teaching activities. Moreover, the pedagogical character of the magazine has been questioned by its contemporaries: teachers, journalists and Romanian Members of Parliament in Pest. Among them it was argued that the magazine was, in fact, a tool used by the Hungarians to magyarize Romanian teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on a conference on trends in information services, convened in Vienna, Austria, from April 25-26, 2013. Topics of discussion included electronic books and libraries, electronic information resources offered by such companies as Cambridge University Press, Minerva EBSCO, and Taylor & Francis, and library consortia.

The article reports on a conference on social aspects of the mass media, held in Potsdam, Germany, from October 19-20, 2012. Topics of discussion included feminism in the U.S. television series "Star Trek," German film in the National Socialist and postwar eras, and photojournalism about crime in Germany and the United States in the 20th century.

The article reports on a conference on the Second Vatican Council, held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from September 21-22, 2012. Topics of discussion included the role of such theologians as Cardinal Julius Döpfner, Heinrich Fries, and Henri de Lubac, the effect of the council on Catholic churches in Germany, and the German Catholic weekly newspaper "Publik."

The article reports on a conference on German communist activist and publisher Willi Münzenberg, held in Berlin, Germany, from October 12-13, 2012. Topics of discussion included international Communist organizations founded by Münzenberg such as Internationale Arbeiterhilfe (Workers International Relief, IAH/WIR) and the League Against Imperialism, the use of film, photography, and other visual media in Communist propaganda, and Münzenberg's experience as an anti-fascist and anti-Stalinist exile in the 1930s.

Moldova ranks number 118 in the Freedom House global press freedom ranking of 2011, sharing the place with Georgia and Malawi. Turkey is listed number 112, together with Bangladesh and Congo. Bulgaria finds itself ranked place 77, Serbia place 72. The assessment conducted by Reporters without Borders barely differs. In the four Southeast European states - Bulgaria being a European Union member since 2007 - the media is considered to be partly free, if at all. Analysing the recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights holding violations of media freedom, which is protected under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the stories behind these rankings come to light. The Strasbourg Court proves to be the ultimate guarantor of the essential freedoms of expression and the media that constitute any democratic society. Nevertheless its jurisdiction needs to be critically reviewed: The Court tends to interpret political debates too narrow and occasionally demands a professional media conduct that cannot be guaranteed under the limitations that investigative journalism in the afore-mentioned countries faces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the summary of a conference that focused on natural disasters and catastrophes that was held from May 4-6, 2011 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Topics under discussion at the conference included a comparison of the apocalypse as described in the Bible and the natural disasters in the 21st Century, a talk on how to predict a catastrophe, as well as a discussion on the role of the media during a catastrophe.

The article presents the summary of a conference that focused on natural disasters and catastrophes that was held from May 4-6, 2011 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Topics under discussion at the conference included a comparison of the apocalypse as described in the Bible and the natural disasters in the 21st Century, a talk on how to predict a catastrophe, as well as a discussion on the role of the media during a catastrophe.

The article reports on the conference "Die nationalsozialistische Okkupationspresse in den besetzten Gebieten der Sowjetunion, 1941-1944" (The National Socialist Press in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union), held at the University of Heidelberg from November 5-8, 2010. Papers discussed various aspects of press politics and propaganda in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, including their institutional organization, content, reception, and audience, as well as biographical questions.

The article reports on a March 2010 conference at the Center for Anti-Semitism Research at the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, on the topic "The Emergence and Development of Anti-Semitism As a Political Movement in European Comparison 1879-1914." Discussions covered such issues as the use of the press and public media to promote anti-Semitism and the differences between anti-Semitism as practiced in Germany and other European countries.

This article focuses on the future expectations of the German Jews during the 19th century as expressed in the German-Jewish newspapers and journals, and on how the expectations varied across different Jewish groups and changed over time. Topics that Jewish Germans, such as Ludwig Geiger and Felix Theilhaber, wrote about in Jewish newspapers including "Der Israelit" and "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums (AZJ)" are discussed, which include Zionism in Germany, the migrations of Jews, and antisemitism in Germany.

The article discusses a civil case before the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice, BGH) of Germany, decided on June 11, 2013, which revolved around the personality rights of citizens interviewed for a satirical television program. Issues raised included how personality rights and freedom of the press can be balanced, whether public political activism such as demonstrations obviate claims based on an individual's right to privacy, and if persons can petition for injunctions against television stations in such cases.