Dortmund Group 61

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The Dortmund Group 61 was founded on March 31, 1961 by the Dortmund library director Fritz Hüser , the writer Max von der Grün , the trade unionist Walter Köpping and other writers.

Initially, the literary group called itself the working group for artistic engagement with the industrial world of work , later it was renamed the Dortmunder Gruppe 61 . The group set itself the goal of bringing together writing workers on the one hand and editors , critics and journalists on the other, and counteracting the lack of literary and artistic engagement with the world of work and its social problems.

The group included Josef Reding , Günter Wallraff , Angelika Mechtel , Peter-Paul Zahl , Willy Bartock and Hans K. Wehren , Wolfgang Körner .

From the Dortmund group 61 went film cycle literature of the world of work produced. After members such as Josef Büscher and Peter Schütt had already started literary workshops in Gelsenkirchen and Hamburg , they, together with Erika Runge and Erasmus Schöfer , called for the inclusion of writing workers at the autumn meeting of Group 61 in November 1968 . “Actually, our unannounced go-in was nothing more than a communist coup attempt” and the group was “converted in a proletarian-revolutionary way”, remembers Schütt. They found support from Max von der Grün, Richard Limpert , Liselotte Rauner and Günter Wallraff. After a heated debate, the conference was broken off and a reportage competition was announced, the winners of which were co-opted by the group.

In 1969, some of the opponents founded a group 70 for literature in the world of work in Essen , whose spokesman and secretary was Schöfer. At the meeting of Group 61 on January 10, 1970, the latter proposed extensive changes to the program and the statutes, which were rejected by the majority of those present. With that the break was complete, and the Dortmund Group 61 disbanded in the early 1970s. The group's documents are now in the Fritz Hüser Institute in Dortmund.

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the group's founding, the exhibition Writing Worlds - Written Worlds was set up in the Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund .

See also

literature

  • Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann , Jasmin Grande ( eds .): Writing worlds-written worlds. For the 50th birthday of the Dortmund group 61. publications of the Fritz-Hüser-Institute for literature and culture of the working world, 22. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2011 ISBN 978-3-8375-0487-3
  • Ute Gerhard , Hanneliese Palm (ed.): Writing work on the margins of literature. The Dortmund group 61. Writings of the Fritz-Hüser-Institute for literature and culture of the working world, 25. Klartext, Essen 2012 ISBN 978-3-8375-0661-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Schütt: "Beat the blue flower to death" . In: Die Welt v. May 13, 2000.
  2. ↑ 25 years of solidarity, resistance, truth, criticism. Edited by Working group literature in the world of work, Cologne 1995.