Compact

Compact (stylized COMPACT, published with the subtitle "Magazine for Sovereignty" since October 2013) is a German magazine. Jürgen Elsässer is the editor-in-chief of Compact, and Kai Homilius is the CEO of , the company which publishes Compact. The editorial office is based in a family home in Falkensee in Brandenburg, at the western border of Berlin. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (German: Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) categorizes the journal as a far-right extremist publication due to consistent antisemitism, Islamophobia and contempt for the democratic principles of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 2015, Compact has presented itself as a mouthpiece of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Islamophobic Pegida movement. In December 2021, Compact was designated as a proven far-right extremist publication by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. History and business In 2008, the editorial began publishing a book series called Compact, which was edited by Elsässer. The following year, it began publishing DVDs in cooperation with . In December 2010, the "zeroth" (Nullnummer) issue of the Compact magazine was published. Since August 2011, the magazine has been published by , which is located in Werder (Havel). was founded by Jürgen Elsässer, Kai Homilius, and the German Muslim convert ; each owns one third of the company. The magazine's domain was temporarily seized by a German court in January 2018 after Compact failed to pay litigation fees. The journalist Richard Gutjahr had obtained a preliminary injunction against the vile suspicions about him that had been spread via Compact. The magazine suggested that the journalist had known about terrorist attacks in advance.