Dianus-Trikont-Verlag
The Dianus-Trikont-Verlag emerged from a renaming of the Trikont-Verlag . The publishing program presented the alternative culture in the late 1970s to mid-1980s, which later became known as New Age . The publishers of Dianus-Trikont-Verlag were Herbert Röttgen and the French writer Christiane Singer .
The beginnings
In 1977 Röttgen published a self-written criticism of the radical left and alternative milieus with the title Vulkantänze - left and alternative exits in his own Trikont publishing house . The text, which sparked a fierce controversy on the left, was the result of a development in the sub and protest culture of the 1968 movement , which later became known as the New Age and which, at least in the first phase, experimented with it, political and to combine social content with a radical, personal change in awareness. "In 1978 a booklet entitled Vulkantänze proclaimed the intellectual swing into the age of Aquarius in German-speaking countries ." ( Adolf Holl ) Röttgen and Singer developed a new publishing program that helped shape subcultural trends into the early 80s.
subjects
In addition to topics such as shamanism and expansion of consciousness , rediscovery of Celtic culture, Indian spirituality and tribal thinking, the old doctrine of geomancy ( Feng Shui ), the publisher was particularly interested in a cultural discourse that between religion and science, imagination and politics, symbol and reality, Myth and history, mysticism and sensuality, humanism and transcendence, spirituality and everyday life, criticism and vision sought to create connections - all pairs of opposites that were largely considered incompatible and between which bridges should be built. There were also books that fostered the dialogue between the various religions and cultures. In order to indicate this change in the publication policy, publisher Herbert Röttgen renamed the Trikont-Verlag to Dianus-Trikont-Verlag.
Internationally known authors of the publishing house from this period included: Theodore Rozsak , Morris Berman , Joseph Campbell , David Steindl Rast , Hazel Hendersen , William I. Thompson , Rolling Thunder , Vine Deloria , David Bohm , Lawrence Durrell and the XIV Dalai Lama with his book Logic of Love (1985).
The 1980s
In the first half of the 1980s, Dianus-Trikont-Verlag, alone or together with other institutions, conceived and organized some sensational events with prominent speakers. Including a major event in 1982 (“The Balance of the Earth”) with the XIV. Dalai Lama and Carolyne Tayangyoma at the Frankfurt Book Fair; 1982 - "The old science of geomacy" - Waldviertel; 1984 - "Celtic Consciousness" - Congress in Zwettl Abbey / Austria; 1984 - "Other Realities - The New Convergence of Natural Sciences and Spiritual Traditions" - Congress in Alpbach / Austria together with Forum International . Speakers: the XIV. Dalai Lama, David Bohm , Fritjof Capra , Francisco Varela , David Steindl Rast , Rupert Sheldrake ; 1985 - in Munich and Frankfurt several public meeting conferences (“metapolitics”) on the relationship between metaphysics, myth, politics and science with Morris Berman , David Steindl Rast, Robert Muller , Hazel Hendersen , William I. Thompson , among others ; 1986 a congress ("Space and Time") with the XIV. Dalai Lama, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , Raimundo Panikkar , Marie Louise von Franz , Joseph Needham .
Trikont-Verlag and later Dianus-Trikont-Verlag represented the protest and alternative movement in their diverse range of publications and events like no other German-language publisher, which began in 1968 and, since the beginning of the 80s, has increasingly become part of the party of "Greens" mutated. After this left and spiritual subculture dried up and the content of the Dianus-Trikont-Verlag program became mainstream literature, the dedicated publishing house also closed its doors (1986).
In July 1986 the publisher filed for bankruptcy. The former editor Christine Dombrowsky founded the so-called "Archive 451" in 1991 from the bankruptcy estate. The name is a reference to the Truffaut film> Fahrenheit 451 <. According to the company's own statements, all 254 titles of the publisher are now available again in the archive through systematic purchases. There is also a pool of posters, magazines and gray material from other social and anti-authoritarian movements in Munich. Dembrowsky does not want to see the publisher "... Trikont first as an esoteric publisher ... but rather as part of the left-wing Munich tradition of Erich Mühsam and Ernst Toller" political, snappy, thoughtful, intelligent and uncompromising "". Dembrowsky died in July 2010 at the age of only 59. Shortly before her death, she handed the archive over to the " Archive of the Munich Labor Movement ".
literature
- Student Movement and New Religious Scenery: On the Dianus-Trikont-Verlag program in: Christoph Bochinger: New Age and Modern Religion. Analysis of religious studies . Gütersloh 1994, p. 158 ff
- The return of the imaginary in: Karlheinz Weißmann: Druiden, Goden, Wise Women. Back to Europe's old gods . Freiburg u. a. 1991, p. 78 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adolf Holl: In the basement of the sanctuary. Gender and Violence in Religion . Vienna, Berlin 2010, p. 167
- ↑ Publishers. Thirst for myths. From Mao to the Dalai Lama, from Che Guevara to the Mother of God. The former Links-Verlag Trikont is on the spiritual trip Der Spiegel , October 4, 1982
- ↑ Many call this nihilism. Peter Bruges on the Dalai Lama in Upper Bavaria Der Spiegel May 19, 1986
- ↑ Der Spiegel issue No. 30/1986 - accessed online on December 15, 2018 | 15:43 - available online
- ^ Homepage Protest Munich: 1967 - The Trikont Verlag and the archive 451, accessed online on December 15, 2018 | 3:56 p.m. - available online
- ↑ taz blogs of July 28, 2010: The soul of the archive 451 has died, accessed online on December 15, 2018 - available online