Privateer (magazine)

Freibeuter , subtitled quarterly magazine for culture and politics , was a left-wing magazine from the Wagenbach publishing house . The editions were published quarterly in paperback format, the issues were also available by subscription . Each issue had a main topic, to which about a quarter of the content was dedicated. A total of 80 issues appeared between 1979 and 1999.

history

The name followed on from Pier Paolo Pasolini's buccaneers' writings , which had recently been published in German by Wagenbach and which brought the publishing house, which was affected by repeated house searches, criminal trials and collectivization, an enormous economic success in the 1970s. This also made it possible to found the magazine. It was also understood as a reaction to the increasing narrowing of the thinking of the New Left in Germany:

“[It] had looked as if the left would only disintegrate into escapists, theory enemies, left-wielding post holders. In contrast, if a magazine wanted to have an encouraging and inciting effect, it not only had to bring together what is neatly separated from each other in German, but also had to look for arguments and cheerfulness outside of the German misery. "

At the end of the 1980s, the circulation was 6,000 - 8,000 copies, depending on the issue, and 5,000 copies shortly before it was discontinued. The editors were Klaus Wagenbach (No. 1979–1999), Barbara Herzbruch (1979–1991), Thomas Schmid (1979–1985), later Barbara Sichtermann (1981–1999) and Heinrich von Berenberg (1986–1999).

List of individual issues

No.	year	Main topic
1	1979	Unification . Please go on!
2	1979	Women in society
3	1980	Desire for cities
4th	1980	The exciting market
5	1980	Seduction to learn
6th	1980	Country life - a troublemaker
7th	1981	Over me - without me?
8th	1981	Twenty years of the Berlin Wall
9	1981	Afraid of technology ?
10	1981	Inequality, brotherhood
11	1982	Crises of the welfare state
12	1982	Architecture . Avant-garde or mass taste?
13	1982	Third paths of> Third World <
14th	1982	The surface of the Federal Republic
15th	1983	The green egg
16	1983	Franz Kafka , re-enacted
17th	1983	Murder and manslaughter
18th	1983	Freshly turned - half won?
19th	1984	Jobs, bought and done with
20th	1984	Julio Cortazar
21st	1984	Horniness
22nd	1984	> Liberated living <
23	1985	Service personnel
24	1985	About the lower case of history
25th	1985	Buccaneering
26th	1985	Young people - all around positive
27	1986	Happy science
28	1986	Violence monopoly and retail
29	1986	Paternity
30th	1986	From getting into debt
31	1987	Opinion and milieu
32	1987	power
33	1987	Type area
34	1987	From hearing new sounds
35	1988	Capitalism at second sight
36	1988	How do you write history?
37	1988	Locomotive Italy
38	1988	The 19th century in the 20th
39	1989	1789 - An export balance
40	1989	The leaps of nature
41	1989	Future of books - an international market cry
42	1989	Pasolini , privateer
43	1990	New Germany
44	1990	Media is looking at you
45	1990	Constitutions and other revolutions
46	1990	Time to think
47	1991	The good morals
48	1991	Women and their image
49	1991	Spain - apart from the inside
50	1991	The unloved modernity
51	1992	Animated society
52	1992	Eastern Europe - a detox
53	1992	The socialism and Western delusion
54	1992	The sick man on the English Channel
55	1993	Kraut, Boches, Moffen, Jekkes
56	1993	Berlin - megalomania and allotment gardens
57	1993	Adjustment and betrayal
58	1993	Eroticism in the age of pornography
59	1994	The welfare committee meets
60	1994	Children and surroundings
61	1994	The German Sonderweg - a dead end
62	1994	Fictions, ticked off and fenced off
63	1995	May 8, 1945 . About clearing history
64	1995	Intoxication
65	1995	canon
66	1995	Courage and honor?
67	1996	How to manage
68	1996	Left resumes
69	1996	Why people come together
70	1996	Gossip stories
71	1997	hunger
72	1997	Transport
73	1997	From disappearing
74	1997	Berlin disorders
75	1998	Wild women
76	1998	Perversions
77	1998	The end of the Kohl era - a damage report
78	1998	Is the state increasing or decreasing?
79	1999	Majorities
80	1999	Germany

Sources and literature

• Buccaneer issues 1-80 , Berlin 1979–1999
• Why so embarrassed? Almanac on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the publisher , Berlin 2004
• Literally Wagenbach - 50 years: The independent publishing house for wild readers , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8031-3650-3

Web links

ISSN  0171-9289

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Literally Wagenbach - 50 years: The independent publishing house for wild readers , Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2014, p. 76. ISBN 978-3-8031-3650-3
2. ↑ Review: Freibeuter 43, March 1989