Green-ecological network Arche

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The green-ecological network Arche in the Evangelical Church , or Arche for short, was an environmental protection network in the GDR that was founded at the beginning of January 1988 in Carlo Jordan's apartment to coordinate environmental groups and environmental libraries, which often work in isolation from one another. The name was chosen based on the Danish environmental organization NOAH - Friends of the Earth Denmark.

aims

The goals were to improve the exchange of information, to network and coordinate joint actions to protect the environment and to overcome organizational problems and weaknesses in the conception within the network. In addition, Arche supported the technical and methodological educational work of the groups and communities, which often worked in isolation from one another, thematically and scientifically. Specifically, environmental studies should be made possible by coordinating the groups.

Internal organization

The network was divided into regional groups, the speakers of which met regularly. There were network nodes in Erfurt , Halle , Lausitz, Western Pomerania ( Greifswald ), contacts also in Dresden and Leipzig . Also, there were independently working project groups on issues such as waste exports to the Federal Republic in the GDR whose waste - landfills and incinerators were technically outdated, air pollution (film Bitter from Bitterfeld ), human ecology , environmentally responsible operations , environmental law and help for departure applicant . The Arche often continued to work with the latter even after they had left for the Federal Republic.

Educational process

From the beginning there were disputes between the Arche and the Berlin Environmental Library (UB), although both worked under the umbrella of the Protestant Church. In the opinion of the UB, autonomous groups did not need officials, but grassroots democracy. Your way of working in the group was more process-oriented, networking should take place passively. The Arche network, which is more results-oriented, did not want to reinvent the bicycle and actively promoted networking. Some of the members of the network were also members of the University Library at first, but were later excluded from the University Library. Whether this was done for structural or competitive reasons remains controversial.

Successor organizations

With the political changes during the fall of 1989, the following organizations emerged:

Individual groups of the Arche existed with changed areas of responsibility within the Evangelical Church even beyond the 1990s.

Publications

Title page of Arche Nova , issue 1, with the focus on Bitterfeld

The Arche network self-published the magazines “Arche-Info” and “Arche Nova”. A total of five editions of “Arche Nova” appeared: No. 1 in July 1988 with the focus on Bitterfeld, No. 2 in October on forest dying, No. 3 in February 1989 on crumbling old towns, No. 4 in April on energy and No. 5 in January 1990 on factory farming.

The film Bitteres from Bitterfeld, shot by arche members in June 1988 and broadcast in excerpts on " Westfernsehen ", became famous .

literature

  • Carlo Jordan / Hans Michael Kloth (eds.): Arche Nova. Opposition in the GDR. The “Green-Ecological Network Arche” 1988-90. With texts from the Ark Nova. BasisDruck, Berlin 1995. ISBN 3861630699 .
  • Ehrhart Neubert: History of the opposition in the GDR 1949–1989. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1997. ISBN 3861531631 . P. 454, p. 749.
  • Hans-Joachim Veen (Ed.): Lexicon of opposition and resistance in the SED dictatorship. Propylaen Verlag, Berlin, Munich 2000, ISBN 3549071256 .
  • Environmental associations in the former GDR based on the ARCHE network. Term paper Ludger Wessels, FU Berlin, FB Political Science, Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The environmental activist Hans Zimmermann from Bitterfeld recalls in an interview with Hellmuth Frauendorfer, mdr magazine fact (from April 12, 2010)
  2. ^ The conflict between the "Arche" network and the Berlin Environmental Library. ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. An example of internal opposition disputes. Term paper by Joachim de Haas, Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Modern and Contemporary History, summer semester 1996  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.havemann-gesellschaft.de
  3. ^ Frank Nordhausen: Last greeting in the warm room. In: Berliner Zeitung . January 15, 2000, accessed June 9, 2015 .
  4. ↑ http://www.arche-bb.de/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.arche-bb.de  
  5. ↑ http://www.hdg.de/lemo/objekte/pict/NeueHerauslösungen_zeitschriftArcheNova/index.html
  6. ↑ http://www.hdg.de/lemo/html/DasGeteilteDeutschland/NeueHeraushaben/Buergerbewegung/arche.html