Bluff! (Magazine)

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Bluff!

description left-wing political journal
Area of ​​Expertise Squatting, anti-militarism
language Dutch
publishing company Self-published
First edition 1982
attitude 1988
Frequency of publication weekly
Sold edition 2200 copies
editor Bluf! Collective
Article archive Archive Bluf! .
ISSN 0925-7527

Bluff! was a Dutch progressive, left-wing political magazine published between 1982 and 1988. She mainly published articles on squatting , anti-militarism , anti-racism and anti-fascism . Notoriety achieved Bluf! through regular revelations from mainstream politics.

history

In seven years, Bluf! 312 issues with an average print run of 2200 copies. The editors wrote information in the form of a "diary" about the events of the employees' activities almost daily. Telephone calls, complaints, replay of editorial meetings, planning of a new edition, who is responsible for cleaning the editorial rooms, were noted and much more. The media de Volkskrant , De Telegraaf , Trouw , Nieuws van de Dag, Het Parool , NRC Handelsblad , De Waarheid , Vrij Nederland , De Groene Amsterdammer , Haagse Post and some foreign newspapers reported on the magazine.

The Raddraaier (something like: " Anführer ", "Ringleader", also: "Rebell") was founded in Amsterdam's Ostadestraat, mainly printing posters, brochures and magazines for the squatting movement, including Bluf! and Ravage . The prerequisites were cheap rent and neighbors who sympathized with the various magazines.

"Die Höhle" ( Het Hol ), as the editorial rooms of the magazines in the printing works were called, was the active place for the publication of squatter reading for over 25 years.

Bluf became nationwide! known from publications that led to several house searches. The magazine published an article by the De wraak van Jhr group. Mr. de Brauw ("The Revenge of Jhr. Mr. de Brauw") about the fact that the Dutch government at the time had plans to build new nuclear reactors, although the official government report did not allow this, as well as detailed plans for the production of smoke bombs . Discussions were held internally on the justification of militant resistance. In 1985 it was provocatively reported that a French terrorist group had been invited to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit to the Netherlands. As a reward, 15,000 guilders were offered .

In the same year the public prosecutor considered taking measures against the magazine. The reason for this was the article Inbreken kan iederen (“ Anyone can break in ”), with the names and addresses of higher-ranking officials.

Between 1986/1987, 45 police officers searched the editorial offices of Bluf! . An 18-year-old man who was busy folding the weekly newspaper and a 50-year-old woman who wrote an article about the Second World War and a man in the adjacent restaurant De Schele Kip ("The cross-eyed chicken") were arrested with printer's ink on his fingers would have.

In 1987, prosecutors confiscated 267 copies of Bluf! because it contained a confidential report from the Dutch secret service. However, no complaint was filed for the disclosure of state secrets. However, the prosecutor's office refused to return the confiscated copies. The bluf! - Publishers wanted to sue for “their rights” in court, but were rejected. It was not until February 1995 that the European Court of Justice ruled that this was a “schending van hetrecht op vrije meningsuiting” (literally: “Desecration of the right to freedom of expression”) and sentenced the Dutch state to a fine of 16,000 guilders.

In Amsterdam, a group called the Autonome advocated the use of force at the coronation of Queen Beatrix on April 30, 1980. The media were very interested in publicizing "the emerging terrorism in the Netherlands". That brought editors from Bluf! on the idea of ​​a practical joke . In exchange for money, you offered a journalist from the Haagse Post newspaper an exclusive interview with the Militant Autonomous Front (MAF). The journalist was taken to a “secret place” with blindfolded eyes, where he could interview three masking members of the MAF. The role was created by three editors from Bluf! played. The Haagse Post published a photo of the courageous journalist on its main page with the three alleged "members of the MAF". The magazine Bluf! published in one issue a photo with the journalist who was blindfolded and three unmasked , grinning Bluf! -Editors.

proof

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archief Bluf! In the IISG archive , section: Bluf! in de media . Retrieved June 1, 2013 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ Information about Ostade and Bluf! ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 1, 2013 (Dutch).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ostade233.nl
  3. ↑ Radical Info. Amsterdam, Van Ostadestraat 233-C: Radikal-Info c / o Bluf . In the holdings of the DNB
  4. ↑ History of Ostadestraat 233 ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 1, 2013 (Dutch).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ostade233.nl
  5. ↑ Author: Willem Beusekamp . From 19 August 2008 in De Volkskrant . Dutch, accessed June 1, 2013
  6. ↑ Author: Jeroen Wester ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . August 26, 2008 in NCR Handelsblad , Archives. Dutch, accessed June 1, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vorige.nrc.nl
  7. ↑ Conversation with Wijnand Duyvendak, former Bluf! Editor . By Max van Weezel and Harm Ede Botje. About the publications of names and addresses. In Vrij Nederland of August 23, 2008. Dutch, accessed June 1, 2013
  8. ^ State General Digitaal. Handelingen Tweede Kamer 1986−1987, from May 12th 1987 . Report of the Second Chamber of the States General of May 12, 1987 on a house search by the police near Bluf !. Dutch, accessed June 1, 2013
  9. ↑ Author: Harry Lensink . From September 6, 2008 in Vrij Nederland
  10. ^ Google Books . P. 14
  11. ^ Google Books . P. 99