Club Alpha 60

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Alpha 60
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purpose To offer all young people in Schwäbisch Hall and the surrounding area appropriate entertainment in the form of dance events, discussions and other cultural events, thereby reducing Schwäbisch Hall's lag in this area and promoting indoor swimming pool construction in Hall
Chair: Rainer Fendt
Establishment date: 1966
Number of members: about 450
Seat : Schwäbisch Hall, office and meeting rooms in Pfarrgasse 3, clubhouse and cinema in separate buildings
Website: www.clubalpha60.de

The Club Alpha 60 is one founded in 1966 self-managed socio-cultural center in Schwäbisch Hall . Since it was founded, it has been continuously managed by its visitors organized in the Club Alpha 60 eV association. This makes it one of the oldest institutions of its kind and the oldest socio-cultural center in Baden-Württemberg.

Today the club operates a clubhouse with an event hall, conference room, studio and leased bar, a communal cinema and owns a listed building with office, conference room and archive. He published a monthly regional newspaper until December 2010.

Name and structure

The club alpha 60 is registered as Alpha 60 in the register of associations , the name goes back to the film Lemmy Caution against Alpha 60 by Jean-Luc Godard .

The association's affairs are regulated by the board, in which all working groups are represented. The Executive Board is in accordance with the articles of association of one or a club spokesman in * and two deputy speakers * inside. All tasks are done on a voluntary basis. The association has around 450 members. The goals of the association include the democratization of society and the promotion of cultural life in Schwäbisch Hall .

The term alpha 60 youth club is often used in the local press and in (local) political disputes . The association describes itself as the sociocultural center club alpha 60 eV In association communication, the spelling club alpha 60 eV is predominantly used. In colloquial language, one usually speaks of club alpha or just club .

Since 2013 the club alpha 60 eV has characterized itself as self-governing, non-commercial, critical of capitalism and inconvenient . At present (2018) the club alpha 60 eV exists as a non-profit association and recognized sponsor of open youth welfare, with the working groups AK Kino im Schafstall, AK Programm, AK Video, AK Politik, AK Technik and AK Bar. The work of AK alpha press is suspended .

Founding years and politicization

The club was founded on July 16, 1966 as a social club. The role models were the Heidelberg student clubs and the Burg Waldeck Festival . The medical student Walter Müller was considered a “club boss” who ran the club's premises rented by the city in the so-called plant café with friends and interested parties . The place was in 1828 for Haller  Protect Compagnie built Biedermeier clubhouse , from 1936 it had been leased for the cure as a pastry café and operated.

The first concert of the club alpha 60 eV will take place there on May 21, 1967 with the folk duo Shirley Hart & Colin Wilkie . The first film showing Viva Zapata followed on June 1, 1967, and the first political event on the subject of emergency legislation on June 15, 1967 .

In March 1968 a conflict broke out after a week of democracy and a demonstration against the Vietnam War, which was also co-organized by the local Jusos . Rudi Dutschke , among others, was a prominent speaker. The local AWO chairman Alfons Schorpp ( SPD ) then collected more than 700 signatures with the motto: The plant cafe would rather serve a social than a radical purpose and applied for the plant cafe to be converted into a day care center for the elderly . The Lord Mayor  Theodor Hartmann ( CDU ) now supports the good cause of the club and postpones the application of the SPD, which has to endure considerable internal conflicts as a result. In October 1971, the management of the clubhouse was formally transferred to the club. In December 1971 the association was recognized by the tax office as a non-profit organization.

Development and establishment

While international issues were the focus of political events and publications up until 1972, local politics soon became the focus of interest. In conditioning cafe a cultural program will be offered. In May 1974 club alpha 60 eV also bought the house at Pfarrgasse 3 in Hall. The centrally located, listed building was first mentioned in a document in 1424. This is where the association's AKs, the alpha press editorial team and the association's printing plant move in.

Accumulated rocker attacks in the summer of 1973 and 1974, with massive property damage and mass brawls in the club house, Anlagencafé , put the club in dire straits . The public stayed away for fear of assault, and the children's shop, which was set up at the end of 1970, was closed again in 1973. There is a crisis in the board of directors.

On February 9, 1974, the ARD broadcast the 90-minute television program "Discussion 7 - Seven Years of Club Alpha 60", a documentary about club alpha 60. It contains a recording of an event organized by the association with the candidates for the upcoming mayoral election, Floh de Cologne and the Jusos federal chairman Wolfgang Roth .

In January 1978 the Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Wuerttemberg wants to revoke the eligibility for funding because it is unconstitutional . In addition, after Berliner Extra-Dienst and Frankfurter Rundschau, Club Alpha is mentioned in a list of left-wing extremist and left-wing extremist organizations of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. However, the club was not viewed as unconstitutional by the regional authorities and remained eligible for funding in 1978.

In January 1981 the clubhouse had to move out of the plant café in the course of the upcoming state horticultural show in 1982. As a temporary solution, rooms in the city center (Am Spitalbach) were proposed and accepted. The transition period was estimated at four years. The club has meanwhile degenerated into a pure disco operation, and interest also fell significantly due to the unsuitable premises.

The current club home has been the Löwenkeller on Stuttgarter Straße since 1985, which revived interest in the club. This building, a former brewery restaurant with an attached bowling alley, was also considered a temporary solution.

On June 4, 2014, the Schwäbisch Hall municipal council decided to make the building Spitalmühlenstraße 13/2, a former laundry, available to club alpha 60 as a permanent home. The renovation work is supported by the city of Schwäbisch Hall with € 470,000. On March 13, 2015, the general meeting of the association votes for the move and the corresponding renovation plans. The building at Spitalmühlenstraße 13/2 has been renovated and converted since August 2015.

activities

In addition to the leased gastronomy, other activities take place regularly in the club. The bar at the events and the regular cleaning of the Löwenkeller is taken over by volunteers, the associated duty roster is regularly planned.

Concerts

From 2007 to 2010 Club Alpha 60 organized the annual International JazzArtFestival Schwäbisch Hall . He cooperated with the Goethe-Institut , the Konzertkreis Triangel and the culture office of the city of Schwäbisch Hall . Since summer 2010, the part of Club Alpha 60 has been taken over by the newly founded Jazz Club Schwäbisch Hall .

Cinema in the sheepfold

The Schwäbisch Haller Filmverein was founded in 1945. A central figure in the reconstruction of Schwäbisch Hall's educational and cultural landscape after the end of Nazi rule was the later Minister of Education (CDU) of Baden-Württemberg, Gerhard Storz . In his memoirs, he describes how not only small university towns like Tübingen , but also, in general, rural towns like Hall, which were little destroyed compared to Stuttgart, but overcrowded by refugees, evacuees and former military personnel, experienced a surge in urbanity and cultural interest. Storz referred to the special role of the cinema in Hall, in addition to films, the adult education center and the lectures of the newly founded academy for teacher training were very popular there. With La Belle et la Bête , films were shown, which was reflected in the establishment of an association. Visiting the film became more than a substitute for the theater, which in Stuttgart was still in ruins or was difficult to get to. According to Storz, this situation and the various suggestions from outside helped the atmosphere of Hall already back then.

The first film club dissolved when the cinema died out in the late 1960s. The Alpha Club took up the concern to renew the approach and contributed to a communal cinema . The cinema in the sheepfold is worn 60 eV to 3.4 by the club alpha. On January 13, 1972, here with the circus of Charlie Chaplin , the first film shown. In the 1980s, there was increasing competition between the cinema in the sheepfold and the only remaining commercial cinema operator in Schwäbisch Hall. In 2012, the venue will be extensively renovated and equipped with new cinema seats.

alpha press

The first edition of the alpha press was published in February 1970 as a follow-up to a program . According to its own statements, this makes alpha press “the oldest, regularly published non-commercial alternative paper.” After initially concentrating on international topics, the focus was shifted to communal reporting from 1972 onwards. In an empirical comparative study of local alternative presses, Nadja Büteführ came to the conclusion that the alpha press came closest to the ideal type of alternative newspaper production. A total of 385 issues appeared. Many of the former editors are now working as freelancers at Haller Tagblatt, which used to have a rather negative view of the activities.

Derived cooperations

The association gave rise to numerous initiatives and collaborations that have now matured into established institutions.

  • 1969–2011: Theaterring Schwäbisch Hall as an alternative to the Esslinger Landesbühne . The theater ring existed until 2011.
  • 1971: Founding member of the “Aktiongemeinschaft Kultur- und Jugendzentrum” (Action Group for Culture and Youth Center). This later resulted in the Heimbacher Hof Children's and Youth Center , the Am Haal Youth Center, the Forum Children's and Youth Center , the Klax Schoolchildren's Café and the Farbrausch Café .
  • 1972: Foundation of the German Communist Party - Schwäbisch Hall local group in the rooms of the club alpha 60.
  • 1972: Foundation of the tenants' association. Today: German Tenants' Association - Schwäbisch Hall und Umgebung eV
  • 1973: After the reform of the Schwäbisch Hall district , a Schwäbisch Hall city youth council is founded. Club alpha 60 is elected to the advisory board and has been actively involved ever since.
  • 1973: The Pro Familia local group Schwäbisch Hall is founded by active club members, among others.
  • 1976: On January 17th the founding of the Schalmeienkapelle Schwäbisch Hall takes place.
  • From 1976: Participation in umbrella organizations, 1982 founding member of the state working group of cultural initiatives and sociocultural centers Baden-Württemberg eV
  • 1993: Founding member of the Association for the Promotion of Free Radio Schwäbisch Hall , which has been running the non-commercial radio station Radio StHörfunk since 1995 .
  • 2010: The Schwäbisch Hall jazz club emerges from the alpha 60 club.

Significant individual members

The following people have shaped the association, were politically socialized within the association's structures or became members of the association due to their political proximity:

  • Käthe Bauer, board member, AK Bar, freelance artist.
  • Alexander Kleid , board member, AK Bar, AK Politburo, documentary filmmaker.
  • Sigrun Köhler, member of the artist group Böller und Brot .
  • Hans Kumpf , AK Musikk, musician, jazz organizer, concert critic, author, photographer.
  • Walter Müller , founding member, first chairman of the association, gynecologist , SPD state and local politician, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit.
  • Dieter Vogt, member of the first hour, notary, SPD local politician, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit, died in 2012.
  • Günther Volz, Die Linke , DGB district chairman Schwäbisch Hall, died in 2014.
  • Jürgen Wagner, political scientist, executive director at the Militarization Information Center in Tübingen.
  • Jenni Winterhagen, board member, AK Bar, AK Politburo, migration researcher.

literature

  • Club Alpha 60 eV (Ed.): 10 years of Club Alpha 60 eV - self-organization and self-determination, documented using the example of Club Alpha 60 Schwäbisch Hall. Schwäbisch Hall 1976.
  • Ulrich Hammel: Announcement, we hereby announce and know that on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Club Alpha 60, a hot late summer in Schwäbisch Hall must be expected. 1976.
  • Alpha-Press working group of Club Alpha 60 eV (Ed.): Schwäbisch Haller monthly newspaper for democracy and socialism. Alpha press.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Club Alpha has new board of directors, SWP October 11, 2014
  2. ↑ see: Albrecht Barth, Ingrid Fritz, Ulrich Hammel, Hilmar Hess, Siegfried Hubele, Ernst Walter Hugh, Hans Kumpf, Manfred Kurtenbach, Karl Maas, Karl Maier, Doris Müller, Walter Müller, Wolfgang Müller, Peter Schierle, Werner Schmid, Hermann Schneider, Eva Silzle, Hildegund Stefani, Ulrich von Varnbühler, Norbert Walk, AK alpha press, AK Film: 10 years of Club alpha 60 eV - self-organization and self-determination documented using the example of the club alpha 60 Schwäbisch Hall , ed. from Club Alpha 60, Schwäbisch Hall, Club Alpha 60: Schwäbisch Hall 1976, 314 p., page 7f. Can be viewed in the Schwäbisch Hall city archive, signature StA 4 CLUB ALPHA
  3. ↑ Ulrich Hägele: Mopeds, Choppers, Street Bugs: youthful counterculture in the sixties . In: Institut für Sportgeschichte Baden-Württemberg eV: Kulturgeschichtliche Schriftenreihe , Vol. 4. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1997, p. 107. ISBN 978-3-7780-3124-7 .
  4. ↑ Sabine Barsch: Walls in people's heads are steadily demolished: 25 years of socioculture in Esslingen. In: Socioculture Information Service No. 63 - 1/2006
  5. ↑ Paul Michel: "Alpha Press is no longer published" - After more than 40 years there is no longer a new edition of the Schwäbisch Hall monthly magazine , Hohenlohe unfiltered on January 1, 2011. Accessed on September 7, 2015
  6. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Retzbach: Haller youth club discontinues Alpha-Press  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) , Hohenloher Tagblatt on December 31, 2010, accessed on August 30, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swp.de
  7. ↑ Günther nething: The rebels - 50 years Club Alpha in Schwäbisch Hall , Stuttgarter Zeitung of 29 September 2016. Accessed October 18, 2016th
  8. ↑ See: BGB § 26 Board of Directors and Representation , accessed on August 31, 2015.
  9. ^ Statutes of the club alpha 60 eV . Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  10. ↑ Start page of the club's homepage . Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  11. ↑ 10 years of Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 8
  12. ↑ 10 years of Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 7
  13. ↑ Bettina Lober: The rifle house of the Haller Schützen-Companie, built in 1828, became the facility café 75 years ago . Haller Tagblatt dated June 27, 2011.
  14. ↑ a b 10 years of Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 301
  15. ↑ Andreas Dehne: Artichokes and Cauliflower: Colin Wilkie sings the last song in the Löwenkeller . Haller Tagblatt from July 18, 2016. Accessed October 8, 2016.
  16. ↑ See: 10 Years of Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 264.
  17. ↑ Article on the plant café . Haller Tagblatt dated March 6, 1968.
  18. ↑ 10 years Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 24
  19. ↑ 10 years Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 25
  20. ↑ Albrecht Bedal: Haller house book . Künzelsau, Swiridoff 2014, page 524. Cf. ibid., Pages 440–442. ISBN 978-3-89929-273-2 .
  21. ^ 10 years Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 33.
  22. ↑ a b Galley historical overview 1978. Probably compiled between 1985 and 1991. Archive of club alpha 60 eV, Pfarrgasse 3, 74523 Schwäbisch Hall.
  23. ↑ Berliner Extra-Dienst, Volume 12 . Verlag & Druck Informdienst GmbH West Berlin, 1978
  24. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of May 30, 1978
  25. ^ Richard Färber: The "Club alpha 60" in Schwäbisch Hall: A case study on socioculture . Scientific work for the diploma exam at the University of Applied Sciences for Libraries, Stuttgart. Produced in the period from January 23 to April 23, 1990. Page 57
  26. ↑ Galley historical overview 1985. Probably compiled between 1985 and 1991. Archive of club alpha 60 eV, Pfarrgasse 3, 74523 Schwäbisch Hall.
  27. ↑ Thumilan Selvakumaran: Green light for Club Alpha - move to Spitalmühlenstraße . Haller Tagblatt dated June 6, 2014, page 9.
  28. ↑ Club Alpha decides to move to Spitalmühlenstraße - renovation starts in summer . Haller Tagblatt from March 16, 2015, page 9.
  29. ↑ www.jazzpages.com ( memento of October 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on November 29, 2009
  30. ↑ Press release of the city of Schwäbisch Hall ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 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. (accessed on November 29, 2009; PDF; 3.9 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzart-hall.de
  31. ↑ See: A Brief History of Jazz in Schwäbisch Hall , 2010 ( Memento of the original from January 21, 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. . Retrieved September 1, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzart-hall.de
  32. ↑ a b Gerhard Storz : Between Office and Inclination - A life report from the time after 1945. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1976. Pages 77–79.
  33. ↑ See: The cinema in the sheepfold will be 25 years old in January 1997! in 30 years of club alpha 60 eV, pocket calendar 1996/97 . 1996, available in the Schwäbisch Hall city archive, signature Bibl. So 9371. Before the annual overview September 1996.
  34. ↑ Jochen Korte: Cinema in the sheepfold comprehensively renovated for 220,000 euros - old charm, new seats . Haller Tagblatt of October 4, 2012, page 10.
  35. ↑ 10 years of Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 19
  36. ↑ Nadja Büteführ: Between Claims and Commerce: Local Alternative Press 1970–1993. Systematic derivation and empirical review. Münster, Waxmann 1995. p. 322. ISBN 3-89325-368-8 .
  37. ↑ All editions are publicly available in the Schwäbisch Hall city archive . A large part of all editions is also publicly available in the German National Library , Frankfurt and Leipzig (cf. catalog entry of the German National Library) as well as in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (cf. catalog entry by Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart). Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  38. ↑ 10 years of Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 19
  39. ↑ 10 years of Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 17
  40. ↑ 10 years Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 22f
  41. ↑ See Heimbacher Hof . Homepage of the city of Schwäbisch Hall. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  42. ↑ See: Café Farbrausch . Homepage of the city of Schwäbisch Hall. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  43. ↑ See: Café Farbrausch on facebook . Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  44. ↑ See: Bettina Lober: Haller SPD politician and gynecologist Dr. Walter Müller is 65 years old today . Haller Tagblatt dated September 3, 2008.
  45. ↑ See: Homepage DMB Schwäbisch Hall and surroundings . Retrieved September 22, 2015.
  46. ↑ 10 years of Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 28
  47. ↑ 10 years Club alpha 60 eV, 1976, page 38.
  48. ↑ History of LAKS Baden-Wuerttemberg . Retrieved August 25, 2015
  49. ↑ See: Homepage Jazzclub Schwäbisch Hall . Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  50. ↑ Vita of Käthe Bauer ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on your website. Retrieved September 1, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kaethe-bauer.de
  51. ↑ See: Hans Kumpf's vita on jazzpages.com . Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  52. ^ Obituary notice of the city of Schwäbisch Hall ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 27, 2015.
  53. ↑ Article: Die Linke mourns its comrade Günter Volz ( Memento from August 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 27, 2015.
  54. ↑ Article Former DGB district chief Günter Volz dies at the age of 75 , accessed on August 27, 2015.
  55. ^ See: Publications by Jenni Winterhagen on Academia.edu , accessed on September 1, 2015.

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