KOMM (Nuremberg)

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The KOMM (abbreviation for "Communication Center" ) was a self-administered communication and cultural center in the center of Nuremberg . The permanent location was the half-ruin of the Künstlerhaus am Hauptbahnhof (inaugurated in 1910), which was expanded in voluntary work from a few 100 square meters at the beginning (1973) to 3500 square meters (1997).

history

After the Second World War , the artist's house, created from a foundation from Nuremberg citizens, was successively used as an officers' mess for the US Army as well as a warehouse and makeshift location for the Nuremberg Faculty of Education.

After plans for demolition and rebuilding in the style of the 1970s could not be implemented by the population, longer-term use or decay were the alternatives. Hermann Glaser , cultural advisor for the city of Nuremberg, then developed the concept of a self-administered, city-financed socio-cultural center, which was implemented in 1973 with a test run.

In 1974 this trial run was brought into a permanent form after internal disputes about the way the house was self-governing and the development of a concept for this.

The following years were characterized by the repair and utilization of the rooms, the development of political and cultural activity, exhibitions and concerts.

On March 5, 1981, after a spontaneous demonstration in the course of a Kraaker (Dutch squatting movement ) event in the KOMM and resulting damage to a car and two shop windows in the city center, the KOMM was surrounded by the Bavarian police after the demonstration was broken. This process became known as the “ mass arrest of Nuremberg ”. In the course of this, which was criticized as “disproportionate”, 141 people (21 of them minors) were arrested and detained for up to two weeks. The trials of 78 defendants were suspended on November 24 and dropped a year later.

In 1987 a meeting of opponents of the nuclear power plant took place in the KOMM . 4,000 police officers were ready to storm the building. This could be avoided.

In 1997 the city of Nuremberg ended the KOMM.

From 1996 to 2008 the K4 , a city-administered cultural center, was located in the partly radically remodeled premises .

structure

The public was mostly aware of the KOMM as a closed structure with autonomous left-wing objectives; autonomous groups were only a small part of the KOMM. Over 40 volunteer groups used the existing (mostly self-created) infrastructure of the house to pursue their goals. Groups of craft, artistic and political objectives as well as gastronomy were essential content and carriers of the work of the KOMM.

The official agency for the work in the KOMM was "KOMM.ev".

The groups met twice a month for mutual information and twice a month for their representatives to make decisions.

Once a year, at the so-called plenary meeting, the functionaries (referred to as "secretaries") were elected who were assigned to a team of city administrators. Most of the funding was provided by the City of Nuremberg, which provided the KOMM with a budget for self-administration.

Incomplete list of groups in the KOMM (work area)

  • Information office (political information, coordination)
  • Archive (documentation, library)
  • Cafe Molotov (gastronomy, political education)
  • Computer group K4CG (open hackerspace , hardware , software , nerd culture care )
  • Milk bar (alcohol-free gastronomy, youth work)
  • Cafe Kaya (gastronomy, music events)
  • Musikverein (concerts, cultural maintenance)
  • Back room ("Young Old Ev." Cross-generational cultural work)
  • Civil Disobedience Group (Grass Roots Movement)
  • Sports group (body work)
  • LaKritz / Don'tPanic (operation of the basement stage and disco)
  • LSD - songs, songs and discussions (open space for talents, songwriters, with discussion about the concert after the event)
  • Kulturbund ev. (Gastronomy, cultural work)
  • Carpentry (open craft offers)
  • Ceramic workshop (open craft offers)
  • Screen printing workshop (open craft offers)
  • Bicycle workshop (open craft offers)
  • Glass workshop (open craft offers)
  • Blacksmith (open craft offers)
  • Photo laboratory (open craft offers)
  • Stone mason workshop (open craft offers)
  • Eritrea group (refugee work)
  • KOMM-Kino (cinema and film culture work)
  • Food Coop (one world work, consumer cooperative)
  • Legalize-It Group (Hemp Release Movement)
  • KOMM education area (exhibitions, educational work)
  • Exhibition group (exhibitions, artistic creation)
  • Chai house, Libertè, later the woman's room

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Mass arrest at the Nürnberger Komm (PDF file; 22 kB)
  2. Wiki the computer group K4CG

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '53 "  N , 11 ° 4' 54"  E