Mladina

Mladina (German Youth) is an independent, Slovenian currently - political weekly magazine. It is published in a separate publishing house and has now (2009 ) a circulation of 20,000 copies. First published in 1943, the magazine was published until 1990 by the Slovenian youth organization of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

Mladina played in the late 1980s an important role in the public debate about the necessary economic and political reforms of the federal Yugoslav state. The magazine supported the prevailing liberal positions in Slovenia against the claim to power of the Serbian President Milošević and his allies in the federal organs. At that time, the magazine reached a circulation of over 80,000 copies.

History

The magazine followed up on the previous title Slovenska Mladina ( 1938-40 ) and Mlada Slovenija ( 1941-43 ). 1943/44, Mladina was produced at different locations in liberated by the partisans of Slovenia. Since 1945, the editorial is in Ljubljana. In the first decades of the Tito era directed by the party bureaucracy magazine did not play particularly important role in the Yugoslav media landscape. But at the beginning of the 1970s dissident articles were published in the journal, which is why the party's 1976 editorial disciplined by a peripheral purge. The now again toe the party line Mladina then fell into a deep depression and had only a few readers, because the usual party rhetoric no longer interested youth.

In the wake of the 11th Congress of the Socialist Youth League of Slovenia in the year 1982, published by this association magazines were again further journalistic freedoms. In Mladina a new editorial has been used, which transformed the title into a trendy youth magazine in which much has been reported about current bands. Thus, the support could be increased again. Externally, a Culture and Music Magazine gave the editors in Mladina soon also critical contributions to political and social issues. The range of topics covered ecology, human rights, privileges the socialist nomenklatura, strikes and also delicate historical issues, such as intra- Slovene civil war during the fascist occupation. This made the magazine also about youth also popular and the circulation increased mid-80s to over 50,000 copies.

In Slovenia Mladina was the voice of the democratic opposition. Even in the other republics of Yugoslavia Mladina was read, because there dealing with the press was far less liberal. From the party was the rising influence of the critical magazine had on public opinion, viewed with concern. Significant staff at times of Slovenian democracy movement were eg Editors David Tasic and Franci Zavrl, the sociologist Gregor Tomc, editors Robert Botteri, Miran Lesjak and Vlado Miheljak and freelance journalist Janez Janša, the Defense Minister and later Prime Minister, after the independence of his country.

As Miheljak and Janša published secret military documents in Mladina in the spring of 1988, the magazine was almost banned by the Yugoslav federal authorities. The journalists did not get betrayed the national defense secrets in question, but under the title NOC dolgih nožev plans to crackdown on Slovene democracy movement made ​​public. In secret and in the People's Army, one thought at that time to impose martial law in Slovenia and to have occupied the republic by the military police, as it actually happened a year later in Kosovo. The Federal Authorities arrested Janez Janša and three other men, and then to make them in Ljubljana the process. This solved in the Slovenian capital of the first mass demonstration against the communist regime. Milan Kučan, who was then head of the Central Committee of the Slovenian Communist Party, stood protectively in front of Mladina and prevented the prohibition of the journal. The Journal won by the affair continued popularity, circulation increased in 1988 to 70,000 copies.

Even after the independence of Slovenia in 1991 remained Mladina a governmental and social criticism magazine. So you criticized his own former employees Janša sharp. This had to resign in 1994 because of a corruption scandal as defense minister. Mladina often stands up for human rights, so you always defended the rights of migrants from the South ( mainly Albanians and Bosnians ), which many locals xenophobic met over the past 15 years. Even criticism of the Catholic Church is often found in the leaf. The forthcoming NATO refused Mladina from 2003, because it provides no plebiscite was conducted. 2006 printed the magazine after the controversial Mohammed cartoons from the Danish newspaper Jyllands -Posten.

Since 2000 Mladina has an Internet edition. Since 2006 Grega Repovž is the editor in chief.

Swell

• Internet pages of Mladina
• Short presentation on the sides of www.ex - yupress.com (1997)
• Tjebbe van Tijen: Europe Against the Current 1985-1989 (1990 )
• Evidence in the ZDB and in the catalog of the Slovenian National Library
• Karmen Erjavec: change and continuity of the press system in Slovenia. Diss Salzburg 1997.
• Jure Vidmar: Democratic transition and democratic consolidation in Slovenia. Frankfurt am Main, 2008. ISBN 978-3-631-57075-3

• Magazine (Slovenia )