Weg und Ziel

Weg und Ziel was launched in 1935.^[2] The journal was one of the publications of the Communist Party.^[2][3] It was published by the Globus Verlag, based in Vienna, on a monthly basis.^[2][3] Its sister publication was Volksstimme.^[4]

Shortly after its start Weg und Ziel became an illegal publication.^[1] One of the significant topics that the journal dealt with in its early years was the concept of nation in Austria.^[1] However, it mostly published the German translations of the official news published in the Soviet Union which were featured with no comment or further discussion.^[5] Weg und Ziel folded in 2000.^[2]

Long-term editor of Weg und Ziel was Franz Marek who was appointed to the post in 1946.^[6][7] Under his editorship the journal adopted a Gramscian approach.^[6] In line with this approach it published a comprehensive interview with Palmiro Togliatti, the Italian Communist leader, in Summer 1956.^[3]

In 1992 Julius Mende was appointed editor.^[6] Some of the contributors included Ernst Fischer, Otto Langbein^[1] and Alfred Klahr.^[8]