Review: Closely Listening and Looking at the Past: The German Periodical "Horch und Guck" Cover Image

Citlivě naslouchat a dívat se do minulosti Německý časopis "Horch und Guck"
Review: Closely Listening and Looking at the Past: The German Periodical "Horch und Guck"

Author(s): Tomáš Vilímek
Subject(s): History
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro soudobé dějiny

Summary/Abstract: The author provides an extensive report on Horch und Guck, a German historical-literary journal, which has been published by the Bürgerkomitee 15. Januar since 1992. The committee, located in Berlin, is made up mainly of people who took part in the East German opposition to the Communist regime and it was responsible for saving from destruction the files of the former East German secret police. The topics of the journal are mainly related to the operation of the state security forces and other organs of power, as well as the East German opposition movement and expressions of resistance to the regime. The carefully considered, richly conceived numbers of Horch und Guck (published as a quarterly since 1999) contain articles by non-German historians, including Czech ones, who write on similar topics in other countries of the former Soviet bloc.

  • Issue Year: XI/2004
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 188-198
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Czech