Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten

Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten (abbreviated AG) is a statewide Greenlandic newspaper. Since 1952, the oldest newspaper of Greenland will be published in both languages ​​Greenlandic and Danish, and since 1993 she published twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday). Editorial office is Nuuk (Danish: Godthåb ). The publication is funded until today to a large extent by subsidies.

History

Atuagagdliutit was founded in 1861 as the first newspaper Greenland by the Danish Inspector of South Greenland, Hinrich Johannes Rink. She had great influence on the emergence of modern Greenlandic written language and the promotion of Greenlandic culture and identity. Content at this time were, accordingly, in addition to practical advice for seal hunting and fishing especially political reports, which should motivate the Greenlanders to political cooperation. Even children were cared for by the newspaper for the first time with the right materials in their language. In addition, the Atuagagdliutit contained illustrations by local artists such as Aron of Kangeq and contributed considerably to support the Greenland Art at. Your goal of political education and emancipation of the Greenlanders, according to the newspaper was free for Greenlanders, Danes only had to pay for it. This also comes in the name of the newspaper to the expression: Since the Greenlandic language hitherto no word for " newspaper" knew the art word Atuagagdliutit was invented, which is about as " worth reading ", "distributed reading material " or " freesheet " can be translated. Other as yet unknown terms of modern life were marked by the editors of Atuagagdliutit in Greenlandic.

Because of the difficult transport routes Atuagagdliutit initially appeared only twice a year: the newspapers had to be delivered by dogsled and kayak awkward or Umiak.

During the Second World War appeared in Greenland the Danish -language newspaper Grønlandsposten ( " The Greenland Post" ). They merged in 1952 with the Atuagagdliutit to the bilingual newspaper Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten. The abbreviation has since AG, previously was rather short atu common. By 1953, the AG was a Danish state newspaper, after which it was issued by Greenland Estag country. In 1979, this task was taken over by the new Greenlandic self-government. Appears only since 1980 with the until then only locally appearing Sermitsiaq a second nation-wide newspaper in Greenland.

Since September 2011, AG is printed next Sermitsiaq in Holbæk in the printing of the Danish media company trykkeriet Nordvestsjælland.