German student party
The German Student Party ( DSP ) was a political party in Germany that emerged on June 22, 1967 from large public discussions at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Joseph Beuys . Beuys justified the name of the party with the fact that everyone is a student.
The main concern of the party was the education of all people to the spiritual maturity. It was called for above all in view of the acute threat posed by materialism , unimaginative politics and the stagnation associated with it. The German Student Party committed itself to the Basic Law in its “pure form”.
Content profile
The German Student Party rejected a classification in the traditional political spectrum of "right-center-left" or center-right or center-left . It declared this to be obsolete and harmful.
Policy
In the program of the German Student Party , Johannes Stüttgen formulated the goal and purpose of the party's overarching program items. The basis for all program items was the Basic Law for the Enforcement of Human Rights .
The party demanded that the war should be shifted to the intellectual sector, that efforts should be made to enable educational work towards intellectual maturity, work for cooperation and fraternity, the establishment of a free, democratic, federal constitutional state, etc. Beuys was primarily the all-embracing context of law, economy, culture and daily life, which he repeatedly emphasized in the context of his artistic ideas and theory.
The German student party, which defined itself as an "anti-party" or "meta party", contained in its program: "THE AIM IS THE METHOD" and the like. a. The following points:
Political positions
- fundamental change in the school and university system
- Reduction of nationalist interests
- Absolute weaponlessness
- No emergency laws
- A neutral, united Europe
- Overcoming the blocks in the west and east
- Development of new points of view as a foundation for world economy, world law and world culture
- The equality of men and women
- Overcoming wage dependency
- The realization of a truly Christian world
- The detoxification of earth, water and air
history
Origin and foundation
In 1967, a few days after the death of the student Benno Ohnesorg , Beuys founded the German Student Party on June 22nd. In the minutes of the founding meeting, written by Johannes Stüttgen , it was stated that it had taken place under the chairmanship of Prof. Joseph Beuys. Students and journalists attended the meeting.
On June 23, a “public explanation” of the German Student Party by Joseph Beuys with around 200 students, journalists and the AStA chairmen took place on the academy meadow. On June 24th, the German Student Party entered the register of associations.
At the same time, the DSP gave itself the name Fluxus Zone West . Finally, the German Student Party was transferred to the organization of non-voters , which since autumn 1971 has been known as the Organization for Direct Democracy through referendum .
literature
- Flensburger Hefte 24, 1789–1989 Direct Democracy - Interviews with Hans Peter Bull (SPD), Heiko Hoffmann (CDU), Gerald Häfner (Greens), Joseph Beuys and Direct Democracy, the artwork Omnibus for Direct Democracy u. a. 226 pages, 1989.
- Rainer Rappmann (Ed.): Thinkers, Artists, Revolutionaries. Beuys, Dutschke, Schilinski, Schmundt - Four Lives for Freedom, Democracy and Socialism , FIU-Verlag, Wangen 1996, ISBN 3-928780-13-1
- Michael Ende / Joseph Beuys: Art and Politics. A conversation , FIU-Verlag, Wangen 1989, ISBN 3-926673-07-9
- Götz Adriani / Winfried Konnertz / Karin Thomas: Joseph Beuys , new edition, DuMont, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7701-3321-8
Web links
- Josephbeuysraum20.com - photographs (students of the Beuys class from 1961 to 1978)
- "Call for alternatives" Call by Joseph Beuys (first published in the Frankfurter Rundschau [FR] on December 23, 1978)
swell
- ↑ Heiner Stachelhaus: Beuys, ISBN 978-3-548-60607-1 , p. 137
- ↑ German Student Party program ( PDF )