Sparks (magazine)
Funken was a left-wing socialist German magazine that appeared in Ulm from 1950 to 1959 . It was subtitled Pronunciation Books for International Socialist Politics . Founders and editors were Erna Blomeyer, Fritz Opel and Fritz Lamm , who also published articles under the pseudonyms Thomas Münzer and Rudolf Ketzer .
Development, positions
Together with a group of like-minded people, Lamm had published the Thomas Münzer Letters since 1949 , which were sent as circular letters by post to several hundred addresses. From this, and for a short time in fusion with the council communist magazine Neues Beginnen , the monthly magazine Funken was created in 1950 . Initially, the magazine was created alternately by the editorial offices in Ulm and Berlin, but by the end of the year the collaboration failed. The New Beginning group around Alfred Weiland aimed for a tactical alliance with the Western Allies and wanted to have a destructive effect on East Germany with an "anti-Bolshevik combat paper". Lamm, on the other hand, wanted to get a “Ausspracheblatt” from the West German left and especially the left wing of the SPD .
In the first half of the 1950s the magazine acted as a kind of “collection point for all forces directed against being tied to one of the occupying powers”. Her main subjects were rearmament, restoration by the Adenauer government and criticism of the development of the SPD. Well-known left-wing socialists from the Adenauer era were represented as authors, including: Wolfgang Abendroth , Ruth Fischer , Willy Huhn , Henry Jacoby .
After the SPD party congress in 1959, which had passed the Godesberg program , which rejected all socialist reorganization decisions , the magazine Funken was discontinued.
literature
- Karljosef Kreter : Socialists in the Adenauer period. The magazine "Funken". From the homeless left to the inner-party opposition in the SPD . With a foreword by Jürgen Seifert , Hamburg: VSA-Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-87975-382-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Only the first issue had the subtitle Pronunciation booklets of radical socialists , see: Database of German-speaking Anarchism - DadA
- ↑ a b c Axel Beger: When the sparks struck ... A look back at the left-wing socialist opposition in the post-war period (II) , in Neues Deutschland, January 24, 2009.
- ↑ Michael Kubina: From Utopia, Resistance and Cold War. The untimely life of the Berlin councilor communist Alfred Weiland (1906-1978) , Münster 2001, p. 367.
- ^ Database of German-speaking Anarchism - DadA