A hundred flowers
Hundert Blumen was a German-language political alternative magazine of the New Social Movement with an anarchist tendency, published in 1972 in the Socialist Center Berlin .
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| description | Alternative political magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Squatting, left-wing political issues, homosexuality |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Self-published |
| First edition | 1972 |
| attitude | 1973 (10 issues) |
| Sold edition | 6000 copies |
| editor | Hundred Flowers Collective |
| ZDB | 9125-x |
history
The magazine, which appeared at irregular intervals, was published by the Hundert-Blumen-Kollektiv (including Helmut Höge , Sabine Körner, Paul Nellen, Ellen Kraft and Achmed Khammas) and succeeded the discontinued publications Agit 883 , Fizz , Linkeck and Charly Kaputt ( Hundert Flowers, No. 1). The magazine's title was freely chosen from Mao Zedong's words : " Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools compete with each other ". Since, according to the editorial collective, the tendencies in the left-wing political scene became more dogmatic at the beginning of the 1970s, it wanted to counter the one hundred flowers for political actions and individual activists with creativity, lustful engagement and fun, as they believed that only then would people contact Participate in activities "when taking part is more fun than watching" ( Hundred Flowers , No. 1). One of the motives of the editorial collective was: "Organization without emancipation is counterrevolution", a slogan that was widespread in the undogmatic left spontaneous scene of those years.
An intimate connoisseur of the alternative press , Josef Wintjes , informed his readers in the Ulcus Molle Info service he published that at last, with Hundred Flowers, young people had found each other who were fun, cheerful and undogmatic and reported on political actions, and that that Blatt "next to the butcher the most important agitation forum of our people".
background
Internally, the editors and authors of the underground and alternative press did not shy away from self-critical statements and statements. Urban Gwerder , editor of the European underground magazine Hotcha, summed up: “The alternative press does not present a final solution and it will also disappear again…. It can afford to be imperfect and creative, or to change constantly ”. The author Peter Paul Zahl asked questions about the alternative magazines and the “scene” in a discussion: “Is the scene the comfortable amniotic fluid for people who exhaust themselves in literary substitute acts instead of entering the historical process as a collective subject? Is Scene the place where sensitive middle-class boys can react to their neuroses? "Josef Wintjes' statement:" They can't get us (the alternative press) under control, neither the German scholars nor the constitution protection. Because once our opponents begin to market, catalog, classify and categorize our literature, then we are lost ”.
content
Hundred flowers, printed in flutter and in colorful typewriter font, provided information about squatting , venereal diseases , political actions, municipalities , trial reports , actions for abortion, left-wing political subcultures and other topics. No. 3 had a special page for " Gays ", No. 5 a poster insert. No. 6 is a special page for homosexuals , No. 8 is a nude photo of Germaine Greer and contact addresses, and No. 9 is an article about Chile and an essay about schizophrenia .
The magazine was published for a price of DM with 10 issues from 1972 to 1973 and 3 special issues. Reprint 1: Statement by the Red Army Faction on the bomb attacks; Special print 2: “Our love for North Vietnamese in Yin”; No. 3: "Out on May 1st". In Hundert Blumen Nr. 1: “We are everywhere” it was read that the magazine not only provided information about political actions, but that the editors also took part in the actions. Two supplements appeared, a poster in No. 1 (“Hundred Flowers Festival”) and a leaflet from Volkshilfe Sozialistisches Vietnam eV (No. 7).
proof
literature
Books
- Hadayatullah Hübsch , Alternative Public . Page 104. Fischer – Taschenbuch – Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1980. ISBN 3-596-24042-5 .
- J.Wintjes / J.Gehret (eds.), Ulcus Molle Info-Dienst . 1969 to 1974. Reprint . Page 262 (quote Urban Gwerder). Pages 318 and 335 (Topic contributions from Hundred Flowers). Page 424 (quote from Peter Paul Zahl). Pages 428 and 437 (quotation from Josef Wintjes). As well as 375, 386, 422. Verlag Azid Presse, Amsterdam 1979. ISBN 90-70215-05-5 .
Magazines
Hundred Flowers, No. 8, 1973, pp. 6-7. Self-presentation, "We about us".
Web links
- Brief information about a hundred flowers in the database of German-speaking anarchism (DadA)
- Proof in the catalog of the German National Library