Knipperdolling (magazine)

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Knipperdolling
Muenster general doubters
Knipperdolling (Logo) .jpg
description German newspaper for the city and region of Münster
First edition September 1975
attitude October 1981
Frequency of publication per month
Sold edition 3000 copies
(1980)
editor Editorial collective:
a) 1975–1977: Socialist Group Münster
b) 1977–1981: Center for the Promotion of Democratic Publicity (Münster)
ZDB 570600-2

The Knipperdolling was a Stattzeitung that appeared from 1975 to 1981 in a total of 74 issues in Münster , North Rhine-Westphalia . The alternative magazine was published regularly on a monthly basis. It was founded and edited by an editorial - collective . In 1981 it merged with the Münster event calendar Ultimo to form the Münsteraner Stadtblatt , a city ​​magazine that existed until 1994 and published every fortnight.

history

The local newspaper Knipperdolling was founded in 1975. The founders, as well as the editors and other employees who later worked for the magazine , mostly came from the left - alternative university milieu of the university city of Münster. The Knipperdolling was supposed to support both the “goals of the socialist undogmatic left ” and the “concerns of citizens' initiatives and groups”, without acting as a “party organ of a certain political group ”, as the title affix of the magazine from 1977 onwards as “Münsteraner general disapproval” . According to Jürgen Kehrer , who worked for Knipperdolling from 1981 and then for the subsequent Stadtblatt until its appointment in 1994 as editor and later also as editor-in-chief, Knipperdolling's claim to the forum and the self- image of those involved to do political work are comparable been with the Aachener Stattzeitung Klenkes or the Kölner VolksBlatt , which served as models.

The Knipperdolling was supported by an editorial collective that initially advocated the principle of rotation . In the course of the growth of the magazine and the transition from over-the-counter sales to delivery to kiosks, etc., structures based on division of labor emerged over time. In 1980, under the heading “Crisis of Knipperdolling”, the introduction of departments in the form of two different proposed solutions, which can be abbreviated as “ subcultural versus citizen-oriented ”, was publicly discussed and carried out, whereby the “citizen-oriented” orientation prevailed. This included on the one hand the limitation of "reports from left subculture" and on the other hand more proximity to the citizen through " background information on local events" as well as news and reports that " would otherwise not be found in the daily press and other interpretations of local politics ". Essentially, however, there were only two departments: politics and culture. "The economy was too capitalistic and sport too proletarian [for the editorial collective]."

The aim was to broaden the “range of topics, continuous reporting on local political issues and broaden the readership”. Ultimately, this was then implemented through a merger of Knipperdolling with the Münster event calendar Ultimo in October 1981, with the transition to a city ​​magazine being completed at the same time . The successor sheet appeared with an initial print run of 10,000 copies fortnightly in magazine format as the so-called Münsteraner Stadtblatt (from 1984 under the abbreviated title Stadtblatt ).

Title, title additions and backgrounds

A leaflet about the torture and execution of the Anabaptist leaders in Münster from 1536, depicting the Lamberti church tower with the three Anabaptist baskets
Bernd Knipperdolling , "Mayor of Münster in Westphalia 1535"

The title of the Stattzeitung Knipperdolling referred to the Münster cloth merchant Bernd Knipperdolling (born around 1495), who was at the head of a bourgeois opposition in the strongly Catholic cathedral during the Reformation , and later to one of the leaders of the Anabaptists and mayor of Münster rose and then, after the siege and capture of the city by Prince-Bishop Franz Graf von Waldeck and his Landsknechte, was arrested, charged and, in 1536, together with two other Anabaptist leaders, publicly tortured to death in Münster. The corpses were then hung up in iron baskets on the tower of Münster's Lambertikirche as a deterrent , where the so-called Anabaptist baskets can still be seen today and have since become a tourist attraction and a landmark of the city of Münster.

The “model of a social revolutionary from the 16th century” and the leader of the “ Anabaptists of Münster ”, to which “ Karl Marx and other socialist and communist theorists referred later so positively” - “in the time of the student movement [was] Münster even transfigured to the 'Anabaptist Commune ' ”- was in line with the founders' intentions to create a means of a left-alternative counter-public in Münster with the Stattzeitung Knipperdolling . This was made clear by two different title additions: The full title was initially Knipperdolling - Socialist Newspaper Münster and from January 1977 Knipperdolling - Münsteraner Generalanzweifler .

In articles, caricatures , illustrations and advertisements of the Knipperdolling , the editorial collective often made allusions to the name founder and his former social revolutionary work, the shameful end of the Anabaptists and the macabre display of his and the other two corpses were repeatedly processed. For example, an advertisement was designed with a line-like drawing of the Lamberti church tower with the three Anabaptist baskets, in which the former corpse basket of Bernd Knipperdolling was shown "with content". The motif was later occasionally used in advertisements for the Münster City Gazette , thus showing the scene's origin at the same time.

Data

The Knipperdolling appeared monthly from 1975 to 1981, the first edition took place in September 1975 and the last edition in October 1981. The publisher and editor was an editorial collective that initially formed the Socialist Group Münster and with the changed title addition from 1977 Center for the Promotion of Democratic Public (Münster) called.

The edition was initially 500 copies, which were sold in over-the-counter sales at the university and in pubs and cultural institutions of the alternative scene. Later the circulation increased to several thousand copies, accompanied by the changeover to a fixed, planned distribution system with kiosk deliveries etc. In 1980 the circulation was 3000 copies.

Former Employees

Jürgen Kehrer (2006)

The editors and other employees of the Knipperdolling were mostly graduates of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, which at that time was already one of the largest German universities. In addition, they mostly belonged to the left-wing alternative scene .

So worked z. E.g. Jürgen Kehrer , a journalist and writer from Essen, worked as an editor for Knipperdolling from the beginning of 1981 to October 1981 after completing his education degree at the University of Münster . Kehrer, who in the meantime has become known to a wider public as a writer through his crime novels, was one of the co-founders and then one of the co-editors of the Münsteraner Stadtblatt , for which he then worked from October 1981 until the paper was discontinued in 1994 as editor and partly as Editor-in-chief.

Burkhard Fritsche , who, like Kehrer, was one of the co-founders and co-editors of the Stadtblatt and worked as a caricaturist for this city magazine from 1981 to 1994 , had already drawn caricatures and cartoons for Knipperdolling from 1976 onwards and designed covers. As today, Fritsche signed his work with BURKH .

Several other editors and other employees of the Stattzeitung Knipperdolling also worked for the subsequent Münsteraner Stadtblatt .

Archiving and conservation

The published editions of the Stattzeitung Knipperdolling belong, partly in full, to the holdings of several archives and libraries in Berlin, Bochum, Bonn, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Münster. The Stattzeitung u. a. Represented in the collections of the newspaper and press archive of the University and State Library of Münster (ULB Münster) and the Münster City Archives , whereby the City Archives indexed the contents of the issues archived there from the end of 1977 to mid-1981 as a finding aid.

In addition, the Knipperdolling is listed at the international documentation center on social history and social movements in the Netherlands, the International Institute of Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam, as well as in some so-called archives from below , such as B. at the archive for alternative literature (afas) in Duisburg, at the Münster environmental center archive e. V. (UWZ archive), whose holdings were affiliated to the afas in 2011, or at the Berlin Paper Tiger - Archive & Library of Social Movements , which emerged in 1984 from the Art and Culture Center Kreuzberg (KuKuCK) in Berlin- Kreuzberg .

In the mid-1990s, afas in Duisburg began to preserve the New Social Movements archived there by microfilming . As part of the filming project, which was carried out together with the University and State Library Düsseldorf (ULB Düsseldorf), around fifty titles had been filmed by 1997, including the Knipperdolling . The corresponding microfiches are available from afas and ULB Düsseldorf.

reception

The journalist Sylvia Koppelberg dealt with alternative newspapers in her master's thesis , which she completed in 1981 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, and examined and described the local newspaper Knipperdolling in particular as an individual case .

The social scientist Wolfgang Beywl dealt , among other things, with the change from alternative papers to city magazines and the "criticism of the city magazine concept" that arose in a specialist article published in the research journal New Social Movements in early 1989 . In his article, which was based on a conference contribution he made to the symposium Media and Movements organized by the Research Group on New Social Movements in November 1988 in Saarbrücken, Beywl pointed out that the origin of some of the new magazines from a social movement for “the majority the buyer is not recognizable ”. In addition, the origin is said to be through renaming such as “z. B. by 'Knipperdolling' in 'Stadtblatt Münster' even consciously or unconsciously veiled ”, says Beywl.

In 1994, Nadja Büteführ investigated in her dissertation at the University of Münster, which was published in 1995 under the title Between Claim and Commerce: Local Alternative Press 1970–1993. [...] was published, u. a. the “crisis of the local alternative press” towards the end of the 1970s / beginning of the 1980s as a result of the changed, “media-centered information production”, the increasing use of “established mass media by the green and alternative organizations and initiatives ” and the “opening of the bourgeois media to their Topics and concerns ”. They named as a prime example of a direct transition from the " people sheet " for the city magazine -Conception and without the "intermediate step" of a city newspaper the Knipperdolling and sat down at length with the conceptual development apart. Büteführ characterized the Knipperdolling and the subsequent city ​​paper as "strongly anchored in the left spectrum " as a result of the history of their creation , but also with "a strong local political reference".

The Paderborn historian Dietmar Klenke dealt in his regional historical work Schwarz - Münster - Paderborn. An anti-Catholic cliché from 2008, in which he a. dealt extensively with the Münsteraner Stadtblatt , also briefly with its (partial) predecessor, the Stattzeitung Knipperdolling . He identified this as one of the “subcultural magazines of the radical left that emerged from the university environment”, which tried to perform the “tasks of an oppositional media public” in Münster. In addition to the student newspaper Semesterspiegel of the AStA of the University of Münster, which is widespread in the university sector, Knipperdolling played an exposed role in the non-university sector , according to Klenke.

literature

  • Franz Brüseke, Hans-Martin Große-Oetringhaus : leaves from below. Alternative newspapers in the Federal Republic (=  Links Pocket , Volume 6). Verlag 2000, Offenbach 1981, ISBN 3-88534-305-3 .
  • Jürgen Kehrer : From the Stattblatt to the Stadtblatt: The example of the “Stadtblatt Münster”. In: Further Education and Media (M & W), 1989, Issue 1, ISSN  0170-866X , pp. 29–31.
  • Nadja Büteführ: Between Demand and Commerce: Local Alternative Press 1970–1993. Systematic derivation and empirical review (=  Internationale Hochschulschriften , Volume 183). Waxmann Verlag, Münster u. a. 1995, ISBN 3-89325-368-8 , pp. 211, 213, 220-221 (also dissertation, University of Münster 1994).
  • Dietmar Klenke : Schwarz - Münster - Paderborn. An anti-Catholic cliché. Waxmann Verlag, Münster u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8309-1987-2 , pp. 31-32.

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klaus Farin , Hans-Jürgen Zwingmann (ed.): Alternatives to the legal press. Attempt to take stock. Doku-Verlag, Ettlingen 1980, ISBN 3-921850-01-0 , p. 37.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Kehrer : From the Stattblatt to the Stadtblatt: The example of the “Stadtblatt Münster”. In: Further Education and Media (M & W), 1989, Issue 1, ISSN  0170-866X , pp. 29–31.
  3. ↑ a b Nadja Büteführ: Between Claims and Commerce. Local alternative press 1970–1993. Systematic derivation and empirical review (=  Internationale Hochschulschriften , Volume 183). Waxmann Verlag, Münster u. a. 1995, ISBN 3-89325-368-8 , pp. 211, 213, 220-221 (also dissertation, University of Münster (Westphalia) 1994).
  4. ↑ a b c Nadja Büteführ: Between Claims and Commerce. Local alternative press 1970–1993. [...]. Waxmann, Münster 1995, pp. 220-221.
  5. ↑ a b Carsten Krystofiak: Zeitzeichen. This week 30 years ago ... . In: well then ... Wochenschau für Münster , issue no. 39/2011 from October 5, 2011; Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  6. ↑ See online biography of Bernd Knipperdolling in the Internet portal "Westfälische Geschichte" (www.westfaelische-geschichte.lwl.org) from January 8, 2004; Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  7. ↑ See review on: Franz Brüseke, Hans-Martin Grosse-Oetringhaus: Leaves from below. Alternative newspapers in the Federal Republic. Verlag 2000, Offenbach 1981. In: Neue Politische Literatur , Franz-Steiner-Verlag, Volume 27, 1982, Issue 1, ISSN  0028-3320 , p. 471 (quote: “Using the example of 'Knipperdolling', which is in the subtitle "Münsteraner Generalanzweifler" calls and unearthed a social revolutionary from the 16th century as a model, namely Bernd Knipperdolling, put the two authors [...] ").
  8. ↑ a b cf .: Jürgen Kehrer : Faith and politics using the example of the Anabaptists in Münster  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Literary pulpit speech in the Unna City Church on September 20, 2009. On: Website of the Evangelical Church District Unna ; PDF, 70 kB; Retrieved May 24, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.evangelisch-in-unna.de  
  9. ^ A b Franz Brüseke, Hans-Martin Grosse-Oetringhaus: Leaves from below. Alternative newspapers in the Federal Republic (=  Links Pocket , Volume 6). Verlag 2000, Offenbach 1981, ISBN 3-88534-305-3 .
  10. ↑ a b c See inventory information on Knipperdolling at the International Institute of Social History (IISG for short) in Amsterdam, Netherlands; English, Dutch; Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  11. ↑ Illustration: Advertisement of the Stadtblatt from 1985 , u. a. m. on the website www.adamriese.info (Münster's cultural staff of the 80s) ; Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  12. ↑ See the homepage of Burkhard Fritsche ; Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  13. ↑ See Knipperdolling -Titelseite of December 1978, with a caricature of Burkhard Fritsche , an extract of a reprinted in March 1979. Knipperdolling -Artikels. On: SPD Hiltrup website ; Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  14. ↑ a b See entry in the journal database under: ZDB -ID 570600-2 (→ proof of ownership); Retrieved May 23, 2013.
  15. ↑ See inventory information for newspaper volumes and individual issues, duration: 1754–2006, at the Münster City Archives , Münster (Westphalia); Retrieved on May 24, 2013. Note: The inventory includes issues from the year of publication 1977 (No. 2, October 1977) to the year of publication 1981 (No. 7/8, July / August 1981).
  16. ↑ See e.g. B. Finding aids for the year of publication 1977: Finding aids: Knipperdolling, Münsteraner Generalanzweifler, 1977 at the Münster City Archives , Münster (Westphalia); Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  17. ↑ UWZ archive - Münster's story from below . Online archive of the association Umweltzentrum-Archiv e. V. , Münster (Westphalia); Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  18. ↑ Web presence: Paper Tiger - Archive & Library of Social Movements , Berlin; see: Search list newspapers & magazines (→ Knipperdolling, Münster), status: 03/2013; PDF, 251 kB; Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  19. ↑ Petra Heine, Jürgen Bacia: Magazines from Alternative Movements ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . A filming project of the Archive for Alternative Literature and the University and State Library Düsseldorf. In: Library Service , Volume 31, 1997, Issue 11; PDF, 223 kB; Retrieved May 25, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bibliotheksdienst.zlb.de
  20. ^ Sylvia Koppelberg: Alternative newspapers - emergence, presentation and example of a new form of local communication. Master's thesis . Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität , Münster (Westphalia) 1981 (see final thesis archive ( memento of the original from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove it Note. From the Institute for Communication Science at the University of Münster; as well as inventory information in the hbz network database ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-muenster.de
  21. ↑ Nadja Büteführ: Between Claims and Commerce. Local alternative press 1970–1993. [...]. Waxmann, Münster 1995, p. 211 / footnote 8, p. 497.
  22. ↑ Wolfgang Beywl : Local counter-public - theses on an exemplary subject of a science of the new social movements . In: Research Journal New Social Movements , Volume 2, Issue 1, February 1989, pp. 13–16; PDF, 5.3 MB; Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  23. ^ Dietmar Klenke : Schwarz - Münster - Paderborn. An anti-Catholic cliché. Waxmann Verlag, Münster u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8309-1987-2 , pp. 31-32.