The black messenger

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The black messenger

description feminist magazine
language German
publishing company Women's book sales (Berlin) / Marina Auder
First edition 1976
attitude 1987
Frequency of publication irregular, approx. 3 times a year
Editor Brigitte Classen
ZDB 42373-7

Die Schwarze Botin was a feminist magazine. With her approach of radical social analysis she is often assigned to anarchist or anarcha-feminist currents in the German-speaking area. From 1976 to 1987 it appeared irregularly in West Berlin in a total of 33 issues. The edition reached a number of 3000 copies in 1976. The editor was Brigitte Classen, the editing was in the hands of Brigitte Classen and Gabriele Goettle and from 1983 to 1987 in the hands of Brigitte Classen and Branka Wehowski. In this second phase, Marina Auder also signed as a publisher and additional editorial offices were set up in Vienna ( Elfriede Jelinek ) and Paris (Marie-Simone Rollin).

In terms of content, the magazine dealt with radical criticism of rule and dissident literature. It published works by Elfriede Jelinek, Christa Reinig , Gerburg Treusch-Dieter and Gisela von Wysocki , among others .

With its publications, the Schwarze Botin sparked fundamental controversy in the new women's movement in West Germany that was emerging . In 1977 these led to insurmountable rifts between their various currents and to calls for boycotts, first against the magazine Emma and later against Die Schwarze Botin itself. After Alice Schwarzer published the founding plans for Emma in 1976, Die Schwarze Botin had the right to be represented universally (the group of Women), which Schwarzer raised for himself and her magazine. Der Spiegel also quoted Classen and Goettle with the sentence that although one does not want to deny "Ms. S." a "certain journalistic skill and a real concern", "market-friendly journalism" and the interests of the women's movement are ultimately incompatible.

Gabriele Goettle preceded the first issue of the magazine with an article that contained a radical criticism of the myth and evocation of the identity of "women" in the women's movement and formulated the goals of the messenger as a satirical magazine. The insistence of women on lack of aggression, softness and women-specific thinking has the consequence that

“The conflicts are only established where their resolution does not result in a collision with patriarchal power . Women are still wary of “false” suspicions that could undermine their general credit. The impression of good progressiveness and emancipation is rewarded by donating dubious honors to the eager attempts at walking in the reserve. The women did not aim at the understanding benevolence of men at all, but created it by renouncing a clear fighting position. [...] We do not expect our messages to become the content of a new female feeling; on the contrary, we intend to make the most ruthless use of our inclination to be consistent. "

literature

  • Carola Hilmes: Classic for resubmission. History of the “black messenger” as the avant-garde of feminism. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 3, 2016, No. 232, p. N3.
  • Ilse Lenz : The New Women's Movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference. Selected sources. 2nd updated edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17436-5 , p. 114. ( Online )
  • Catherine Ley, Katrin Locker, Gregor J. Rehmer: Courage, Emma and Die Schwarze Botin - Unity in Difference? In: Die Philosopher, 16th year, issue 32 (Feminist magazines. Traditions and history), December 2005, pp. 43–58. [1]
  • The Black Messenger: Slime or non-slime, that is the question. In: Ilse Lenz (Ed.): The new women's movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference. Selected sources. 2nd updated edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17436-5 , pp. 114–116. ( Online )
  • Der Spiegel : Women’s Press: Fight for Emma. From November 29, 1976, issue 49/1976. ( Online )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Der Spiegel : Frauen-Presse: Kampf um Emma. From November 29, 1976, issue 49/1976 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b c d Ilse Lenz : The new women's movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference. Selected sources. 2nd updated edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17436-5 , p. 114. ( Online ).
  3. ↑ Catherine Ley, Katrin Locker, Gregor J. Rehmer: Courage, Emma and Die Schwarze Botin - Unity in Difference? In: Die Philosophin 16th year, issue 32 (Feminist Journals. Tradierung und Geschichte), December 2005, pp. 43–58, here: p. 43  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically created as marked defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / secure.pdcnet.org  
  4. ↑ The Black Messenger: Slime or non-slime, that is the question. In: Ilse Lenz (Ed.): The new women's movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference. Selected sources. 2nd updated edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17436-5 , pp. 114-116, here: p. 115. ( Online )