„Elindultak szeptemberben…” Ifjúságnevelés a kisebbségi szocialista sajtóban: A Neue Banater Zeitung és a Szabad Szó gyermek- és ifjúsági rovatai (1968–1990)
"They Started in September...” Youth Education in the Socialist Press of Minorities: Columns for Children and Youth in the Gazettes Neue Banater Zeitung and Szabad Szó (1968–1990)

Author(s): Erika Kommer
Subject(s): Media studies
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: youth education; daily newspapers; Neue Banater Zeitung; Szabad Szó; Timişoara; socio-political relations;
Summary/Abstract: This book is a comparative analysis of the articles appeared in the daily newspapers Neue Banater Zeitung (published in German) and Szabad Szó (written in Hungarian) edited in Timişoara between 1968 and 1990. The main question of the research is: How and in what ways are children and youth addressed by these newspapers? Looking for a response, the book firstly outlines the socio-political relations in Romania during the period under review, mentioning the most important historical and cultural events of the German and Hungarian minorities. Another chapter presents the Neue Banater Zeitung, highlighting the personality of Editor-in-Chief Nikolaus Berwanger and key columns such as Pipatsch and Kulturbote. This is followed by the presentation of Szabad Szó and then the children’s, youth’s, and student’s pages and columns for correspondence of both newspapers. A separate chapter deals with the language of these columns, the “Newspeek” / “wooden language” as a tool of manipulation as well as the educational principles and the school model reflected in these newspapers of the communist Romania. The book also contains analysis of newspaper articles and interviews with journalists from the era: János Graur, Horst Samson, Ödön Józsa, Marius Koity, and Mária Pongrácz P.

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