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{{Short description|Monthly news magazine in Germany}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox magazine
| image_file     = Zuerst (logo).png
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| image_caption  =
| editor         = Andreas Karsten
| editor_title   = Editor-in-chief
| frequency      = Monthly
| circulation    =
| category       = [[News magazine]]
| company        =
| publisher      =
| firstdate      = {{start date and age|2010|1|1|df=yes}}
| finaldate      =
| country        = Germany
| based          = [[Selent]]
| language       = [[German language|German]]
| website        = [http://www.zuerst.de/ ''Zuerst'']
| issn           = 1869-5493
| oclc           = 690427829
}}
'''''Zuerst!''''' ({{langx|de|First!}}) is a monthly German [[news magazine]] published in [[Selent]], Germany. The magazine has a [[far-right politics|far-right-wing political stance]].
==History==
''Zuerst!'' was founded in January 2010 as a successor to the now-defunct ''[[Nation und Europa]]'' magazine.<ref name=dvic/> It was supported by right-wing publishers in Germany.<ref name=kcon>{{cite news|title=New German magazine puts gloss on far right, say critics|newspaper=The Guardian
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/07/new-german-far-right-magazine|access-date=3 October 2013|date=7 January 2010|author=Kate Connolly|location=Berlin}}</ref> The publisher of the magazine was Lesen und Schenken.<ref name=lunds>{{cite web|work=Lesen und Schenken
|title=ZUERST!|url=http://www.lesenundschenken.de/de/Zeitschriften/ZUERST|access-date=3 October 2013}}</ref><ref name=roy>{{cite news|author1=Roy Greenslade|title=Bauer under renewed fire over magazines that glorify Nazi regime|access-date=8 November 2014|work=The Guardian|date=9 August 2013|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/aug/09/bauer-adolf-hitler}}</ref> At that time the distributor of the magazine was [[Bauer Media Group|Bauer media group]] which also owned it later.<ref name=roy/><ref name=cmor>{{cite web|title=Meet the Bauer family: the now global magazine dynasty comes down under|url=http://mumbrella.com.au/meet-the-bauer-family-the-now-global-magazine-dynasty-comes-down-under-142854|work=mUmBRELLA|access-date=3 October 2013|author=Colin Morrison|date=28 February 2013 }}</ref> In September 2012, the group sold ''Zuerst!'' due to criticism by ''[[Der Spiegel]]''.<ref name=cmor/><ref>{{cite news|title=How will Europe's secretive media giant cope?|work=Flashes and Flames|url=http://www.flashesandflames.com/2013/02/how-will-europes-secretive-media-giant-cope-with-the-glare-in-australia-and-the-us/|access-date=2 March 2015|date=15 February 2013}}</ref>
Editors of the magazine also write for other right-wing publications.<ref name=kcon/> The former [[editors-in-chief]] of ''Zuerst!'' are Günther Deschner<ref name=kcon/> and Manuel Ochsenreiter.<ref>{{cite web|title=M. Ochsenreiter|work=Manuel Ochsenreiter
|url=http://manuelochsenreiter.com/|access-date=12 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=What did German chemists supply to Syria ?|url=http://indian.ruvr.ru/2013_10_01/What-did-German-chemists-supply-to-Syria-3951/|access-date=12 October 2013|work=Russian Radio|date=1 October 2013}}</ref> Andreas Karsten was named as the editor-in-chief in December 2021.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Impressum|magazine=Zuerst!
|language=de|url=https://zuerst.de/impressum/|access-date=4 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|user=korpokritik|number=1476114894810501120
|title=Andreas Karsten, Jahrgang 1992, ist der neue Chefredakteur des extrem rechten Magazin „Zuerst“|access-date=4 February 2023
|language=de}}</ref>
The monthly, which provides news on the [[economy]], [[Current affairs (news format)|current affairs]], travel and [[culture]], is also distributed in Austria, Luxembourg, Switzerland and [[South Tyrol]].<ref name=lunds/><ref>{{cite news|title=Magazine launched with aim of "neatly putting the screws" on Germany|url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/2010/01/08/magazine-launched-with-aim-of-neatly-putting-the-screws-on-germany
|access-date=3 October 2013|work=WAN IFRA|date=8 January 2010}}</ref>
==Political leaning and controversy==
''Zuerst!'' reported its political leaning and policy as follows: "The German news magazine ZUERST! will serve German - not foreign - interests."<ref name=dvic>{{cite web|title=Zuerst! Magazine: First shall be last|url=http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2010/02/zuerst-magazine-first-shall-be-last.html|work=Dialog International|access-date=3 October 2013|author=David Vickrey|date=14 February 2010}}</ref> Immediately after its first issue the [[Office for the Protection of the Constitution]] announced that the content of the magazine was against the "unending de-nazification efforts", advocating revisionist theories on national boundaries, and the terrorist activities of the "South Tirolean Freedom Fighters" in the 1960s.<ref name=dvic/>
In 2019 the editor Manuel Ochsenreiter was accused of sponsoring a group of radical Poles who staged a [[false flag]] arson attack of Hungarian culture center in [[Uzhhorod]] in order to discredit the government of Ukraine. The Poles testified in court that Ochsenreiter, who had long lasting ties to Russian government and separatists in Ukraine, passed them money and instructed them as to the way of conducting the arson for it to have most media impact.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://amp.dw.com/en/afd-worker-accused-of-ordering-arson-attack-in-ukraine/a-47093618|title=AfD worker accused of ordering arson attack in Ukraine|work=[[Deutsche Welle]]|access-date=16 January 2019}}</ref> According to OCCRP investigation, Ochsenreiter received thousands of euros from Russia's International Agency for Current Policy for publishing pro-Russian articles. In 2019, when investigation into the false flag attack in Ukraine was initiated, Ochsenreiter fled to Moscow and lived there until he died in suspicious circumstances in August 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Martin Laine|display-authors=et. al.|title=Kremlin-Linked Group Arranged Payments to European Politicians to Support Russia's Annexation of Crimea|url=https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/kremlin-linked-group-arranged-payments-to-european-politicians-to-support-russias-annexation-of-crimea|access-date=4 February 2023|publisher=OCCRP}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=In eigener Sache: ZUERST!-Chefredakteur Manuel Ochsenreiter ist tot|url=https://zuerst.de/2021/08/29/in-eigener-sache-zuerst-chefredakteur-manuel-ochsenreiter-ist-tot/|access-date=4 February 2023|magazine=Zuerst!|date=29 November 2021|language=de}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of magazines in Germany]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* {{Official website|http://zuerst.de/ }}
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