Info store
Info shops are part of autonomous structures and organizations. They not only serve to disseminate information, but are also intended to promote the development of and discussion of various topics. These topics range from refugee policy and anti-fascism to feminism and repression, prison and prisoners, left-wing extremist politics, globalization , as well as internationalism , "anti-nationalism", to drugs and subculture . In addition to current information, many shops also provide archives and thus function as a kind of memory of movements .
concept
Info shops were and are often integrated into autonomous centers and occupied houses . After the disappearance of many centers and squatted houses, the info shops are increasingly offering the infrastructure and spaces that left-wing groups and projects need for their work. The sense and purpose of info shops is also to network groups and individuals on a local and supraregional level. Info shops are carried and organized by people with the most varied of convictions, but who mostly come from the undogmatic and autonomous spectrum .
history
At the beginning of the 1980s , info shops opened up mainly in the urban centers of the western industrialized countries. Fundamental to their emergence was the need to be able to pursue information politics apart from the logic of capitalist exploitation. The info shops are well networked with one another and are able to spread news and information quickly across regions. In addition to their practical functions, info shops have always provided freedom for experimenting with utopias free of domination . Anti-authoritarian forms of organization and a rejection of rigid ideologies and discriminatory standpoints characterize the entire structure.
The International Infoshop Meeting (IIM) came together for the first time in 1988 and took place until the early 1990s . However, it was more of a Western European character. During these meetings, a joint magazine for the information shops, the CLASH newspaper for / from the resistance in Europe, was created . The international meetings encouraged an intensive discussion within the movement of the info shops. In the mid-1990s, the Leipzig Info Store began to record its inventory in a database, the Dataspace. In 1999, the idea of making the database available online was born, and other stores also added their stocks of magazines, books, brochures, videos and CD-ROMs. The result was an extensive list of materials that can be found in info stores.
In the German-speaking area there was last between 1999 and 2001 a common structure of the info shops, as well as six-monthly networking meetings. During this time, the central page of the info shops was created, which has not been maintained since 2003.
meaning
Info shops have developed into important sources of information for various movements over the course of time. They are a local point of contact for political activists, because in the shops they get the information they need for their work, research in archives , rooms for meetings and events, equipment for office work or a postal address for illegal groups and individuals. From the beginning, info shops saw it as their task to preserve and pass on knowledge of past social struggles and experiences. They are not just a service collection of information, they want to actively use the accumulated knowledge in the development of new practices and ideas.
List of info shops in Germany
| Surname | city |
|---|---|
| Complex - Trier info shop | trier |
| Infocafé Cronopios | Mainz |
| Info shop in AZ Cologne | Cologne |
| Info store black market | Hamburg |
| Info shop Stutgartt | Stuttgart |
| Info shop Salbke | Magdeburg |
| Info store Glimpflich | Hall |
| Info shop Subtilus | Flensburg |
| Antisexist info shop Neukölln | Berlin-Neukölln |
| District & info shop Lunte | Berlin-Neukölln |
| Info store stop | Bielefeld |
| Info store Subtil | Osnabrück |
| Info shop Sabotnik | Erfurt |
| Info shop Wilhelmsburg | Hamburg |
| Info shop "Red Stump" | Oldenburg (Oldb) |
| info shop Landshut | Landshut |
| Info shop Bremen | Bremen |
| Info shop Paderborn | Paderborn |
See also
Web links
- infoladen.de - Central website of the info shops (no longer maintained since 2003)
- Dataspace - stocks of various info shops, recorded in a comprehensive database
Individual evidence
- ↑ LC 36: What are info shops?
- ↑ see: Sabine Fromm: Formation and fluctuation. The transformation of the capitalist exploitation logic into Fordism and Post-Fordism ( Memento from February 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ see: http://conne-island.de/infoladen.html
- ↑ see: http://www.conne-island.de/infoladen.html#haben
- ↑ see http://ildb.nadir.org
- ↑ see: http://www.infoladen.net
- ↑ Self-image of the info shops
- ↑ Upcoming events - complex. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ News | Info shop Cronopios. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ^ Info shop in AZ Cologne | Autonomous Center Cologne. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ^ Info store Schwarzmarkt Hamburg | A place for information, meeting point, exchange and various merchandise needs. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Info shop | Left center Lilo Herrmann. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ^ Info shop [Salbke] | Old Salbke 144 | 39122 Magdeburg. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ^ VL :: Kellnerstraße eV :: Ludwigstraße 37 :: Halle (Saale). Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Imprint & data protection - Infoladen Subtilus. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Imprint - faq info shop. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ LUNTE district and information store in Neukölln. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Info store stop. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Info shop “Subtil” | Substance. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Infoladen Sabotnik. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ^ Infoladen Wilhelmsburg. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Information shop "Roter Stockumpf". Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ info shop | support left structures. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Information shop Bremen. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Imprint - BDP Infoladen Paderborn. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .