"Das seit über 100 Jahren in Buenos Aires erscheinende "Argentinische Tageblatt" ist eine in Deutschland wenig bekannte Zeitung. Das Blatt bezog in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik und der nationalsozialistischen Diktatur in Deutschland pointiert Position zugunsten der Republik und der nach 1933 entr
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echteten Juden. Der antinationalsozialistische Kampf der 45.000 nach Argentinien geflohenen deutschen Juden, die sich mit den demokratischen Auslandsdeutschen um das "Argentinische Tageblatt" scharrten, schildert der vorliegende Band. Zunächst wird die Einwanderungsgeschichte Argentiniens skizziert und die Flucht der deutschsprachigen Juden in Südamerikas zweitgrößtes Land beschrieben. Dank der jüdischen Emigration steigert die Zeitung, die Zielscheibe von NS-Angriffen wird, ihre Auflage auf täglich über 40.000 Stück und übersteht so die politischen und wirtschaftlichen Angriffe, hinter denen die deutsche Botschaft steht. Die Patagonien-Affäre stellt einen Höhepunkt der Auseinandersetzung dar, gelingt es den Journalisten des Tageblatts, direkten Einfluß auf die argentinisch-deutschen Beziehungen zu nehmen. Mit Hilfe gefälschter Dokumente suggerieren sie der argentinischen Öffentlichkeit die Gefahr einer drohenden Annexion Patagoniens durch Nazi-Deutschland. Im Anschluß an die deskriptive Analyse der historischen Konfrontation werden die aktuellen Probleme der Zeitung dargestellt, die seit 1981 als Wochenzeitung auf den argentinischen Markt kommt. Hendrik Groth (Jahrgang 1960) studierte in Bonn, Genf und Hamburg Politische Wissenschaft. Redakteur bei Agence France Presse (AFP) in Bonn und Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) in Hamburg. Seit Sommer 1996 Leiter des dpa-Büros in Buenos Aires." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Describes the many obstacles involved with literacy promotion in the developing nations of Africa, Asia, and South America. The authors of the 10 articles in this collection share their knowledge and experience of literacy promotion in the developing world, including the challenges faced by those w
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ho publish, print, and distribute reading materials with limited support and resources. The articles also offer suggestions and possible solutions for increasing the developing world's access to quality indigenous reading materials. Among papers included are: “Reading in Developing Countries: Problems and Issues” (Vincent Greaney); “Developing Local Publishing Capacity for Children's Literature” (Tony Read); “Promoting Children's Book Publishing in Anglophone Africa” (Scott Walter); and “Donated Book Programs: An Interim Measure” (Rosamaria Durand and Suzanne M. Deehy)." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2174)
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"In fact this paperback is about narration and about text in whatever form: spoken, written or printed. Or even better, this book is about the importance of narrative art. It therefore invests all kinds of storytelling, not only the person-to-person oral tradition, but also the mediated forms of sto
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rytelling. Is taken for granted that the radio is giving an extra dimension to the spoken word, like books are giving an extra dimension to the printed word, or the cinema or television are connecting texts and visuals again, like woodcut printings have done in the past. Stories from the oral tradition found their way to the mass media like movies, radio and television. Therefore a wide variety of media will be discussed in this book without showing any preference for one medium or another. The focus of interest is more on storytelling then on de media used to tell stories. It is about the athletics of words and the flexible relatedness between the various media. All these media make use of characters to present stories. Therefore characters with stereotyped traits are present in every medium that makes use of narrative or dramatic elements like comic books, photo novels and soap operas. Mass media have been taking over the role of traditional storytelling. Nowadays, it seems as if instead of listening to an individual storyteller, the global community sits down and have stories told by their favourite radio plays and television series like situation comedies and soap series. Some social scientists strongly reject this change in media consumption. They regret the changing patterns in spending leisure time. They regret for example the supposed decline of reading habits which has been considered as an effect of changing media consumption. And they are not the only ones to regret this. On the one hand there are the educationalists worrying about the latest statistics on literacy rates. These figures certainly do not show any worldwide improvements in literacy and numeracy. And there are the publishers too, who regret the declining reading habits. On a global scale the selling of books and other printed matter is at a decline. With an expanding media market, people are spending their leisure time in a more varied way leaving them less time to read. However, despite this conclusion the educational system in whatever country cannot do without a structured transfer of knowledge. And it seems that the most effective medium within the educational system still is the written word, being presented to the people by printed materials. Learning children as well as adults to read and write is the main preoccupation of as many multilateral aid organisations as national governments." (Pages 10-11)
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"El autor de este libro era uno de los protagonistas de la radio y un pionero de la radionovela (p.e. se recuerda de la legendaria serie "El misterio de los ojos escarlata", que tuvo un enorme exito de audiencia) cuando surgió en los años veinte en Venezuela." (Catálogo Fundarte 1995)