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 (Danish: [ˈlanˀ ʌ ˈfʌlɡ̊ˀ], Land and People) 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. ↑ Neils Thomsen (January 1968). "The Danish political press". Scandinavian Political Studies (Wiley) 3 (A3): 144–164. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1968.tb00461.x. Full text.
  12. ↑ Britt-Mari Persson Blegvad (July 1964). "Newspapers and Rock and Roll Riots in Copenhagen". Acta Sociologica (Sage Publications) 7 (3): 151–178. doi:10.1177/000169936400700302. JSTOR 4193580.
  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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