Go-in
A go-in is a demonstrative intrusion into events in order to force discussions. This approach was used in particular by the international student movement of the 1960s to disrupt, break up or repurpose university events (e.g. a lecture ) . As a rule, the speaker was withdrawn from the speaker or, at larger events, the microphone was snatched away in order to use the lectern to rally about the demonstration topic. The go-in was then transformed into a teach-in . With a sit-in , on the other hand, an unused room was usually occupied.
In a theoretical reflection on the go-in from 1969, Monika Steffen argued that it should end the “prevention of spontaneous thought processes, the cutting off of collective consciousness through compulsion to perform and competition” , which is common at universities . This breaks the bourgeois socialization process and "if not removed, the fixation on reactionary science is problematized".
In Germany, the go-ins from Carlo Schmid and Theodor W. Adorno at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt became particularly well known. Carlo Schmid used the modified Luther quote “Here I stand and no one else”, but then had to break off the lecture. A lecture by Adorno in 1969 was blown up by students protesting against the patriarchy who were demonstratively topless. He then wrote to Samuel Beckett : " The feeling of suddenly being attacked as a reactionary has something surprising ."
