The free society
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| description | magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Anarchism , |
| language | German |
| publishing company | The free society, Frankfurt / M. |
| First edition | 1949 |
| attitude | (with interruption from 1953 to 1981) 1986 |
| Sold edition | approx. 500 (?) copies |
| editor | Federation of Liberal Socialists |
| ISSN (print) | 0427-5195 |
The free society was an anarchist monthly of the Federation of Liberal Socialists (FfS) for social criticism and libertarian socialism , published from 1949 to 1953 in Frankfurt / M. and from 1981 to 1986 in Hanover.
history
In the 1950s, Die Freie Gesellschaft was one of the most important theoretical journals after the Second World War and saw itself as a "combat sheet" for liberal socialism that denounced human rights and human dignity violations ; a discussion forum for libertarian theories, including the problems of social and political life. The magazine's predecessor was the publication Die Internationale (4th episode) , which appeared from 1947 to 1949 .
1949 to 1953
The publication, which appeared monthly from 1949 to 1953, reached a total of 43 editions. Fritz Linow, a former member of the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD), was in charge ; The responsible editor was Alfred Leinau, later Grete Leinau. Each issue had a different cover color, and the reported number of copies printed might have been between 2,000 and 3,000. In a supplement to the magazine Information from June 1959, Otto Reimer's employee wrote that hardly more than 500 copies had been sold. The magazine received the Aachen Charlemagne Prize from the city of Aachen in 1952, which it had to share with others. In terms of content, The Free Society was oriented in a variety of ways with the categories Do you still remember ?, The gloss of the month, The book worth reading, views and opinions, feature pages, criticism of film and radio, comments on current events and much more. With contributions and translations by international authors:
Heinrich Bergmann, Margarete Buber-Neumann , Diego Abad de Santillán (Spain), MPT Acharya (Bombay / India), CDH Cole (England), Franz Ferdinand (pseudonym of Fritz Linow), Hans Frey, Willi Georgi, Helmut Rüdiger , Hermann Hesse , Evert Arvidsson (Stockholm / Sweden), Albert de Jong (Netherlands), Carl Heinrich (Copenhagen / Denmark), Georg Hepp, Heiner Koechlin , Gustav Landauer , Otto Reimers, Max Nettlau , Gerhard Wartenberg , Gaston Leval (France), Peter James (North America) and others.
In 1953 Die Freie Gesellschaft ceased its publication due to insufficient sales. In one of the last editions (1953) Georg Hepp, who had campaigned a lot for the guild of libertarian book lovers , wrote: "For the masses of people we are idealists at best if they don't think we are fools ...".
1981 to 1986
Under the editorship of Georg Hepp, Max-Otto Lorenzen , Ulrich Gelitz and Jutta Lorenzen, a new start of The Free Society was undertaken in 1981 (Hanover edition) . The now quarterly magazine published in No. 1 a clear indication that the new publication would stick to the tradition of the previous issues (1949 to 1953). The editors informed their readers with the words: It is important to continue the beginning already made, to subject oneself to an analysis of the present… . The publishing house of the same name published an anarchist series of magazines, "edition esprit libertaire", from 1980 to 1981, with eight issues. Texts by: Michail Bakunin , Wolfram Beyer , Diego A. Santillan, Peter Kropotkin , Gaston Leval, Max-Otto Lorenzen, Max Nettlau, Rudolf Rocker , Jose G. Pradas and Augustin Souchy have been published .
After six years the free society stopped its publication again.
Magazines of the same name
- The Free Society , anarchist monthly revue in Yiddish (1895 to 1899?), New York
- The free society , organ of the international socialists. Ed .: F. Wiede (1892 to 1893; 7 editions), Zurich
- The free society , anarcho-communist monthly. Ed .: O. Leutner (1929 to?), Graz
literature
- The free society (1949–1953 and 1981–1986) index of contents . In the series Bibliographien der Bibliothek der Free , Volume 1. Karin Kramer Verlag , Berlin 2009. ISBN 3-87956-287-3
- Günter Bartsch , Anarchism in Germany . Volume 1, pages 185–188, and p. 187 copy of the title page from October / November 1955. Fackelträger-Verlag, Hanover 1972. Vol. 1, 1945–1965 ISBN 3-7716-1331-0
- Holger Jenrich : Anarchist Press in Germany 1945–1985 . Nevertheless-Verlag, Grafenau-Döffingen 1988, ISBN 978-3-922209-75-1
Web links
- The free society in the library of the free.
- The free society, 1949 to 1953 , Frankfurt / M. Brief information in the database of German-speaking anarchism (DadA)
- The free society, 1981 to 1986 . Hanover brief information in the "DadA"
- "When two ... do the same thing". in: The Free Society, No. 8, 1950 . Article by Otto Reimers
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. on this: Theodor Löhrstein , Political Partisans of a Left Front. Anti-totalitarian groups that decompose the KPD . " The 2000–3000 copies of this monthly are distributed in the West German cities and also in Berlin and are well-received with their tolerant attitude ". Article in: Die Neue Zeitung , No. 75, April 23, 1950, page 3
- ↑ Quote from the Tages-Anzeiger from January 31, 1978