Library of the Free
| Library of the Free | |
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| founding | 1993 |
| Library type | Special library |
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Berlin 
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| ISIL | DE-B1576 |
| Website | www.bibliothekderlosen.de |
The Free Library has existed in Berlin since December 1993 as a special anarchist library and since August 1996 has had the additional task of archiving anarchist, liberal-socialist and syndicalist literature.
history
Today's Free Library was founded in December 1993 under the name “Barbate” . At first it was housed in a room in the anarchist info café "El Locco" in Berlin-Kreuzberg . After El Locco was closed , the Free Library moved to the House of Democracy in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg in 2000 .
The name refers to the group “ Die Freie ” , an informal group of liberal and socialist intellectuals, to which Max Stirner and Friedrich Engels belonged , among others . The free formed a debating club of the "radical-liberal opposition spirit".
archive
The library has set itself the task of making the history of anarchist ideas - lack of power, grassroots democracy, self-organization - accessible to the public so that libertarian ideas can be used in the present. The archive works together with other European libraries, particularly in the field of the journal archive.
The library's archive houses writings on the history of international anarchism from over 100 years. The libertarian library took over more than 2000 books and over 10,000 magazines from the holdings of the “Berlin Society for the Study of Social Issues”, making it one of the most extensive anarchism collections in Germany. It contains publications from, among others, Spain, Russia, China, France, Mexico. There is also a free archive within the library . Private archives are also accessible, e.g. B. by Rudi Dutschke and Kurt Zube , for which finding aids were developed, some of which were published by Karin Kramer Verlag in Berlin .
Similar projects
Similar projects are the archives from below , the library from below (Vienna) the CIRA (Lausanne) and the archive for alternative culture (Berlin).
See also
literature
- Helge Döhring: "Important anarcho-syndicalist materials". Interview with the library of the free . In: Syfo. Research & Movement . No. 2 . Edition AV, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86841-072-3 , ISSN 2192-6980 , pp. 6-9 .
- Carrying the libertarian ideas into the world! An interview with the library of the free . In: Gǎidào . No. 72 , 2016, p. 9–12 ( online [PDF]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Carrying libertarian ideas into the world! An interview with the library of the free. (PDF) In: Gǎidào. Federation of German-speaking Anarchists , December 2016, pp. 9-12 , accessed on March 2, 2018 .
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↑ See the contemporary report by Max Stirner in the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung (July 14, 1842). Reprinted in: Max Stirner: Kleinere Schriften. Published by John Henry Mackay . Bernhard Zack, Berlin 1914, pp. 132-141;
On the political and intellectual environment of the “free” cf. Wolfgang Eßbach : The Young Hegelians. Sociology of a group of intellectuals. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7705-2434-9 ( texts and studies on action, language and world 16), (at the same time: Göttingen, Univ., Fachber. Sozialwiss., Hab.-Schr.), Online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . - ↑ from: Self-presentation of the library of the free
- ↑ Library of the Free holds anarchist documents ready . By Konstanze Schmitt, in: "Berliner Stadtzeitung", No. 8, 2005
- ^ Library of the Free: Catalog of the free economic archive ; accessed on July 15, 2011
