Borderline case (magazine)
The border case was a political underground magazine ( samizdat ) of the GDR opposition , which was published in East Berlin from 1986 . A total of 17 issues were published. The border case was published by members of the Peace and Human Rights Initiative .
On June 29, 1986, on the day of the Peace Workshop in Berlin's Erlöserkirche, the first issue of the magazine borderfall appears , edited and produced by IFM employees Peter Grimm , Ralf Hirsch , Peter Rölle , Dirk Sarnoch (the first two issues) and Rainer Dietrich (managed by the Ministry for State Security as an unofficial employee of IM “Cindy” ).
The underground samizdat magazine borderfall already shows its objective explicitly and unambiguously with the cover picture of the first issue: border fall in the sense of the fall of the wall or the destruction of the state border and thus of the GDR state. The magazine was published from 1986 to 1987 in East Berlin in 17 issues. If the first two editions were produced in an edition of approx. 50 copies on photo paper, the ones reproduced with Ormig hectography reached up to 800 copies, but only through the reproduction technique with wax stencils could editions of over 1000 copies be produced. Printing took place in changing apartments and in the environmental library (UB) in the Zionskirchgemeinde , where the environmental papers were also published.
Other employees and supporters included Bärbel Bohley and Gerd Poppe . On the night of November 24th to 25th, 1987, the Ministry for State Security (MfS) searched the environmental library in the "Action Trap" , and seven UB employees were arrested. Thanks to the public reporting in the West German media, as well as vigils and expressions of solidarity in the GDR, the magazine gained greater prominence and those arrested were released.
In 2011, Avant-Verlag published a comic adaptation of the opposition story by Peter Grimm and the border case , which was funded by the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship and which is also to be used as teaching material in schools.
literature
- Ralf Hirsch / Lew Kopelew (ed.): Initiative for peace and human rights: GRENZFALL. Complete reprint of all editions published in the GDR (1986/87). First independent periodical , foreword by Lew Kopelew, Berlin (West), self-published, 1988, 2nd edition 1989.
- Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (Hrsg.): Freedom and public. Political samizdat in the GDR 1985–1989. Berlin: Robert Havemann Society 2002. (= Series of the Robert Havemann Archive No. 7). ISBN 3-9804920-6-0 .
- Thomas Henseler / Susanne Buddenberg: borderline case . Comic. Berlin: avant-verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-939080-48-0 .
- Thomas Rudolph , Oliver Kloss , Rainer Müller , Christoph Wonneberger (ed. On behalf of the IFM-Archivs eV ): Way in the uprising. Chronicle of opposition and resistance in the GDR from August 1987 to December 1989. Vol. 1, Leipzig, Araki, 2014, ISBN 978-3-941848-17-7 , ( preface as reading sample).
- Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk , Arno Polzin (ed.): Be brief! The opposition's cross-border telephone traffic in the 1980s and the Ministry of State Security. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014 (documents how the makers of the borderline case were prosecuted by the MfS).
Web links
- Way in the uprising. Chronicle of opposition and resistance in the GDR from 1987 to 1989. Website of the Society for Integral Ecology & Social Research in Leipzig (araki.de)