Land og Folk

Land og Folk (Danish: [ˈlænˀ ʌ ˈfʌlˀk], Land and People) was a Danish communist newspaper published from 1919 to 1982. It became the main communicative media of the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP) from 1920 and boomed in circulation during World War II, growing from 12,000 copies in 1940 to 120,000 in 1945. The paper was printed in Copenhagen, but distributed countrywide.

Land og Folk
Land og Folk from April 1945
TypeDaily newspaper
Founded1919
Political alignmentCommunist
LanguageDanish
Ceased publication1982
HeadquartersCopenhagen
OCLC number70257033

History and profile

The newspaper was established as a weekly in 1919 under the name of Arbejdet (The Labour).[1] In 1920, the paper became the central communicative organ of the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP).[2][3] The following year it was renamed to Arbejderbladet (The Worker's Paper) after the formation of Kommunistisk Føderation (Communist Federation).[1] From 1934, the paper was published daily.[1]

The paper was published as Arbejderbladet until June 1941[1] and was renamed to Land og Folk on 1 March 1942,[4][5] after a brief publication as Politiske Maanedsbreve (Political Monthly Letters).[1][6] During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, on 22 June 1941, and a few months before Denmark joined a revised anti-comintern pact in November that same year, Danish police arrested and detained hundreds of communists. On 22 August 1941 the paper was banned. However, the paper continued to be published illegally by the Danish resistance movement until 1945.[4][7][8] The paper boomed during the occupation, growing ten-fold from 12,000 copies in 1940 to 120,000 in 1945 after the liberation.

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]

Land og Folk ceased publication in 1982.[12]

The photo archive of Land og Folk is kept in Arbejdermuseet (The Workers' Museum) in Copenhagen.[13][14]

Circulation

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.[15] The circulation of Land og Folk was 7,100 copies in 1975.[2]

See also
  • List of Danish newspapers

References
  1. Morten Thing (1990). "The Communist Party of Denmark and Comintern 1919-1943" (PDF). Roskilde University Digital Archive. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014.
  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.
  4. "Land og Folk - Et illegalt blads historie". HSB (in Danish). Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  5. 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.
  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. Archived from the original on 2 January 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  8. "Denmark Press". Press References. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  9. Morten Thing. "The Communists' Capital". What Next?. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  10. "Who we are?". Tvind Alert. Archived from the original on 2 January 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  11. Neils Thomsen (January 1968). "The Danish political press". Scandinavian Political Studies. 3 (A3): 144–164. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1968.tb00461.x.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Full text.
  12. Henrik Søndergaard; Rasmus Helles (29 October 2010). "The case of Denmark" (PDF). Media policies and regulatory practices in a selected set of European countries, the EU and the Council of Europe. The Mediadem Consortium. Athens. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2015.
  13. "Arbejdermuseet Museum and the Labour Movement Library and Archives". Europeana. 21 December 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  14. "The Workers' Museum: Home to History". Digital Meets Culture. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  15. Britt-Mari Persson Blegvad (July 1964). "Newspapers and Rock and Roll Riots in Copenhagen". Acta Sociologica. 7 (3): 151–178. doi:10.1177/000169936400700302. JSTOR 4193580.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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