Strategie perspektywizowania polskiej prawicy w niemieckim dyskursie medialnym na przykładzie tygodnika „Junge Freiheit”
Strategies for forming a perspective on Polish right-wing politics in the German media, as exemplifi ed by the Junge Freiheit weekly

Summary/Abstract: The author undertakes an analysis of a discourse in the German media as exemplified by the Junge Freiheit, weekly, a publication regarded, on the basis of a number of empirical studies, as providing a platform for so-called folk-nationalism. The analysis in question focuses on the strategies for the conceptualisation of the right wing of Poland’s political scene. Within the framework of the general analysis, the following aspects have been set out: the discoursive context of the study and the characteristics of the medium being analysed. 51 articles, the topic of which was Poland, and which are understood here as an analytical category, were subject to a detailed scrutiny which made it possible to identify three discoursive threads: a) Polish foreign politics, b) Polish domestic politics, c) historical politics. The results of the detailed scrutiny subsequently lead to a definition of the ways in which Junge Freiheit articulated the weekly’s perspective on Polish right- wing political groupings: a) a ultra-chauvinist movement, in respect of historical politics, b) an important partner in the joint struggle against political correctness at the European level, c) a social-democratic movement, in respect of the economy, d) a conservative-Catholic movement, as far as social issues are concerned. The following discoursive strategies applied by the medium under study are identified: a) a strategy aiming at separation, within the framework of the discoursive subthread: German-Polish relations and historical politics (the expulsion of Germans from Poland a er 1945, the Centre Against Expulsion project), b) a link-up strategy within the discoursive sub-thread: the right-wing parliamentary faction in the European Parliament.

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