Logo ''FRÖSI'' was a children's magazine which was published by

Junge Welt ''Junge Welt'' (English: ''Young World'', stylized in its logo as ''junge Welt'') is a German daily newspaper, published in Berlin. The jW describes itself as a left-wing and Marxist newspaper. German authorities categorize it as a far-left medi ...

in the

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(East Germany). The expanded title of the magazine was ''Fröhlich sein und Singen''. It was the magazine for members of the

Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 13 in East Germany. They were named after Ernst Thälmann, the former leader of the Comm ...

. The word FRÖSI comes from the first line of the at that time familiar pioneer song "Fröhlich sein und singen" ("Being happy and sing"). This title in full length was used until 1965, then the short form replaced it. The first edition was released on 25 June 1953. At first it was published every 6 weeks, from 1956 monthly. The magazine included

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, articles about

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and

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and other contents. A notable amount of the magazine was made up by

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. Several issues also included

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s. In 1990 it was renamed ''tandem''. In March 1991 it was discontinued. In June 2002 ''

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'' tried to revive the magazine with a single edition of ''FRÖSI'' as a gimmick in the newspaper. In May 2005, ''FRÖSI'' started again as a monthly magazine, but was discontinued again that November.

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20050802084003/http://www.froesi-online.de/ (in German)
Background information respecting authors, example comics
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