Agit 883
Agit 883 56 51 , later shortened to the more common Agit 883 , was an anarchist- libertarian magazine from the left wing scene in West Berlin , which appeared from February 1969 to February 1972 with changing subtitles and with a changing composition of the editorial team. In terms of the topics chosen, its language and the presentation (illustrations with photo montages and comics, libertarian agitation), it is a typical sheet of the late student movement. The number in the title of the magazine was the telephone number of the editorial office or the shared apartment and the co-editor Dirk Schneider at Uhlandstrasse 52 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .
After the shooting of the student Benno Ohnesorg by the police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras on June 2, 1967, Schneider conceived and promoted the collective newspaper project as a platform for a left counter -public. At first, Agit 883 , with a print run of up to 6,000 copies, was more Marxist- oriented and inspired by critical theory . It later changed into an explicitly anti- Leninist paper with an anarchist orientation.
In issue 62 of June 5, 1970, the first public programmatic declaration of the RAF appeared in the magazine, the text RAF, Build the Red Army! [Founding paper and strategy instruction] , whose copy was enforced by Holger Meins . The magazine was put on the index and the responsible editor Karl had to go into hiding. The last editorial team fell out over the question of the actionist line and the attitude towards the RAF and a group split off in April / May 1971, which from then on published the newspaper Fizz . Repeated confiscations of the conditions contributed to the end of both projects.
The successors to the Agit 883 were the short-lived 883 Hanover , 883 Bremen and the local magazines Bambule , Berliner Anünder and Hundert Blumen .
literature
- rotaprint 25 (Ed.) (2006). Agit 883. Movement, Revolte, Underground in West Berlin 1969–1972. Verlag Association A, Berlin, ISBN 3-935936-53-2 with enclosed CD of all editions of Agit 883 .
- Holger Jenrich: Anarchist Press in Germany 1945–1985. Nevertheless publishing house, Grafenau-Dörffingen 1988 (series: Libertäre Wissenschaft Vol. 6) ISBN 978-3-922209-75-1
- Bernd Drücke : Between a desk and a street battle? Anarchism and Libertarian Press in East and West Germany. Klemm & Oelschläger Verlag, Ulm 1998 (Series: Wissenschaft Vol. 2) ISBN 3-932577-05-1
Web links
- All issues of the 883 with title pages and index of contents and PDFs for download
- Virtual reprints as PDF files - The West Berlin Issues No. 1–88
- The bizarre sound of revolt. A look back at the radical left newspaper project agit 883 . In: ak - analyze & critic 512, December 15, 2006.
- agit 883 in the database of German-speaking anarchism (DadA)