Blick nach Rechts
Encyclopedia
The Blick nach Rechts is a German-language information service which appears every two weeks on the Internet
. Its concern is the current "information about activities of the extreme right" (subtitle: "Aufklärung über rechtsextreme Aktivitäten"), which in the opinion of the initiators aren't properly noticed by the common media.
The articles of the most recent online-issue are usually available for free. They will be archived with the appearance of the subsequent issue.
The front-page of the BNR offers a sitemap to get to all the subpages. it is divided into for main rubrics:
Among the Sub-rubrics which are attainable immediately are:
An internal search function allows to research every article of the archive and the recent issue for a keyword, ordered by relevance. For security reason, the result of the search will be deleted immediately again after opening a single page.
There is no public page for letters to the editor. The BNR editorial staff decides which of the signed letters they print.
/CSU
parliamentary group issued a Small Inquiry to the Federal Government about the support of the BNR with tax money. The inquiry criticised the "large number of links" from the homepage to "obviously extremely left movements, which are also mentioned in the reports of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution" . Together with ten local Antifa groups and alliances, it was listing the
(Union of persecuted of the Nazi regime - Alliance of the Antifaschists)
and two internet-sites. For some of these groups, the Inquiry refers to opinions of the Federal offices and State offices (Landesbehörden) for the Protection of the Constitution. This substantiated the suspicion of the inquirers "that the ‘View to the Right’ is a platform for the distribution of slogans of the extreme left under the cover of struggle against right wing extermism" .
At the time of the inquiry the imprint of the BNR-Homepage contained the note, that they don't agree with the content of other internet-sites. The objected links had already been deleted.
According to the answer of the federal government to the small inquiry, in the year 2000 the BNR was founded with collectively 56,497.75 Deutsche Mark by the Ministry of the Interior. The question of ownership did not play a role. The "concern of the ‘bnr’ to inform about current developments and the background of the extreme right-wing scene" is "worth to be supported" . The Federal Government further explained: "The imprint of the ‘bnr’ states the ‘bnr’ does not agree with content from web-sites of third parties to which links from its pages are directed. Additionally, the ‘bnr’ asks their users to announce fallacious, illegal or changed content on such pages of third parties."
Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, the patron
is Ute Vogt, former Minister of State and former chair member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
.
The BNR has no steady list of authors. Several politologists, journalists and experts of the field contribute as free lancers. In 2007, among them were:
and others.
(Central journal database of Germany)
Internet
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. Its concern is the current "information about activities of the extreme right" (subtitle: "Aufklärung über rechtsextreme Aktivitäten"), which in the opinion of the initiators aren't properly noticed by the common media.
Structure and purchase
Between 1984 and 2004, the journal appeared as a printed issue, and since then appears as an online-magazine every two weeks, thus with up to 26 issues per year. For one-year subscribers, these are also available as e-papers.The articles of the most recent online-issue are usually available for free. They will be archived with the appearance of the subsequent issue.
The front-page of the BNR offers a sitemap to get to all the subpages. it is divided into for main rubrics:
- "BNR aktuell" for current news, events and activities
- an archive with all the issues back till 1996. The archive and the internal search function are free to use for users who are registered with their name and e-mail address and who have purchased a one-year subscription and in turn have received a password.
- an "Interaktiv" page, where subscribers can read and write letters to the editor, announce projects against right wing extremism and win their friends as readers of the BNR
- an "Aktiv" page with an steadily updated calendar of activities, a list of initiatives and games against right-wing extremism
Among the Sub-rubrics which are attainable immediately are:
- "brandaktuell" ("urgent news") with hints to daily news relevant for the field
- "Meinungen" ("opinions") with letters to the editor and comments on such events
- "Hintergrund" ("Background") with background information about these
- a summary of the recent issue
- a rubric "Abo" ("subsription")
An internal search function allows to research every article of the archive and the recent issue for a keyword, ordered by relevance. For security reason, the result of the search will be deleted immediately again after opening a single page.
There is no public page for letters to the editor. The BNR editorial staff decides which of the signed letters they print.
Inquiry
On 28 September 2004 the CDUChristian Democratic Union (Germany)
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...
/CSU
Christian Social Union of Bavaria
The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union , operates in the other 15 states of Germany...
parliamentary group issued a Small Inquiry to the Federal Government about the support of the BNR with tax money. The inquiry criticised the "large number of links" from the homepage to "obviously extremely left movements, which are also mentioned in the reports of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution" . Together with ten local Antifa groups and alliances, it was listing the
(Union of persecuted of the Nazi regime - Alliance of the Antifaschists)
and two internet-sites. For some of these groups, the Inquiry refers to opinions of the Federal offices and State offices (Landesbehörden) for the Protection of the Constitution. This substantiated the suspicion of the inquirers "that the ‘View to the Right’ is a platform for the distribution of slogans of the extreme left under the cover of struggle against right wing extermism" .
At the time of the inquiry the imprint of the BNR-Homepage contained the note, that they don't agree with the content of other internet-sites. The objected links had already been deleted.
According to the answer of the federal government to the small inquiry, in the year 2000 the BNR was founded with collectively 56,497.75 Deutsche Mark by the Ministry of the Interior. The question of ownership did not play a role. The "concern of the ‘bnr’ to inform about current developments and the background of the extreme right-wing scene" is "worth to be supported" . The Federal Government further explained: "The imprint of the ‘bnr’ states the ‘bnr’ does not agree with content from web-sites of third parties to which links from its pages are directed. Additionally, the ‘bnr’ asks their users to announce fallacious, illegal or changed content on such pages of third parties."
Editors and authors
The current editor is the journalist Helmut Lölhöffel of the Institut für Information und Dokumentation e.V. (Institute for Information and Documentation registered association), the publisher is the Berliner VorwärtsVorwärts
Vorwärts was the central organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany published daily in Berlin from 1891 to 1933 by decision of the party's Halle Congress, as the successor of Berliner Volksblatt, founded in 1884....
Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, the patron
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is Ute Vogt, former Minister of State and former chair member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
.
The BNR has no steady list of authors. Several politologists, journalists and experts of the field contribute as free lancers. In 2007, among them were:
- Robert Andreasch
- Horst Freires
- Gudrun Giese
- Michael Klarmann
- Viktor Licht
- Heiner Lichtenstein
- Eberhard Löblich
- Anton MaegerleAnton MaegerleAnton Maegerle is the nom de plume of a left-wing German journalist and author books on far-right politics and the Neue Rechte.-Personal life:...
- Theo Meier-Ewert
- Thomas Niehoff
- Peter Nowak
- Armin Pfahl-Traughber
- Thomas Pfeiffer
- Andrea Röpke
- Tomas Sager
- Bernhard Schmid
- Andreas Speit
- Volker Stahl
and others.
See also
- Der Rechte Rand
- Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes
- Informationsdienst gegen RechtsextremismusInformationsdienst gegen RechtsextremismusThe Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus was a German-language internet portal devoted to collecting information about persons, organisations and publications which promote right-wing extremism, Antisemitism and Holocaust denial...
- Nizkor ProjectNizkor ProjectThe Nizkor Project is an ongoing Internet-based project run by B'nai Brith Canada which is dedicated to countering Holocaust denial. It was founded by Ken McVay as a central Web-based archive for the large numbers of documents made publicly available by the users of the newsgroup alt.revisionism...
- redok
External links
(Central journal database of Germany)