Long August

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Long August
(LA)
logo
legal form self-managed initiative house
founding 1979
Seat Dortmund ( ⊙ coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 39.7 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 54 ″  E )
motto Culture, education, rebellion
Website www.langer-august.de
Long August , 2013
Bamboo corner , courtyard
Communication Center Ruhr ( KCR )
Soldering course in the Chaostreff Dortmund

Langer August is a self-administered initiative house founded in 1979 in Dortmund . It is located in the listed building Braunschweiger Straße 22 in the north of the city and is a member of the state working group for sociocultural centers NW .

history

The house at Braunschweiger Straße 22 was built in 1904/05 by the master carpenter Wilhelm Köstner . The construction manager was Ernst Stephan . In 1905 the master plasterer Theodor Schäfer bought the building.

Gerhard Breidenstein, pastor of the Evangelical Student Community ( ESG ), bought the house at Braunschweiger Straße 22 in 1977 in order to make living and work rooms available to the Dortmund Workers' Self-Help ( ASD ), a spin-off from the Dortmund self-help organization . After the ASD disbanded in 1979, Breidenstein wanted to sell the house again, but then made it available to a group of active people who wanted to set up a self-administered “left center” for Dortmund. At the beginning of 1979 the non-profit association Langer August - Association for the promotion of political education and cultural leisure work was founded. Breidenstein initially remained the home owner, but the groups using it managed the house themselves and bore the costs ( loan interest and repayments , taxes and fees). In mid-November 1979, the house, now also called Langer August , officially opened with a beer festival. The name should be on the Dortmund resistance fighters and communists Kurt Schmidt remember who had lived nearby and was called by his friends because of his height "Long August". First groups in the house were u. a. Socialist office , Citizens' Initiative for Environmental Protection Dortmund ( Budo ), German Peace Society - United War Resisters Local Group Dortmund, Association of Alternative Cultural Creators (ZAK), Teachers Center , Antifascist Seminar and Antifascist Action (in the ESG).

The Communication Center Ruhr ( KCR ), founded in 1972, has been located in a building in the backyard since 1983 . In 1988 the association bought the house. In 1991 the premises of the DFG / VK were searched. The DFG / VK was accused of having distributed a leaflet at the main station in which soldiers were asked to desert if they were involved in the Gulf War . At the end of 1997, the Dortmund Science Shop moved to the third floor with its FREE internet project . The Hackerspace Chaostreff Dortmund ( CTDO ) has been using a room in the backyard since 2005 . In 2008 the building was placed under monument protection. In 2010 the Chaostreff Dortmund moved from the room in the backyard to the second floor of the house. In 2012 the Chaostreff expanded its premises and since then has been using the entire second floor with five rooms.

On July 4, 2018, a house search was carried out by order of the central and contact point Cybercrime North Rhine-Westphalia . The aim was to locate servers at the Dortmund Science Shop, through which activists against the planned French nuclear waste repository Bure are said to have distributed "secret documents". These were previously stolen from the French engineering service provider Ingérop due to a security hole . Several doors, including a reinforced door, were broken into and computers and documents were confiscated. The Free Radio Free Sender Kombinat was also affected .

architecture

The house at Braunschweiger Straße 22 is a four-story building with an Art Nouveau influence . The facade architecture is typical for rental housing in working-class neighborhoods . The house was originally a couple . Two families and a bachelor lived on each floor. All in all, Braunschweiger Straße offers a coherent picture for rental development at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Initiatives

Resident in Long August are u. a. the Dortmund Science Shop , the FREE Internet project , the Dortmund local group and the DFG / VK regional association, the Hackerspace Chaostreff Dortmund and two archives. There is a café on the ground floor and a seminar room under the roof. Germany's oldest lesbian and gay center, Kommunikationcentrum Ruhr ( KCR ), is located in the backyard .

See also

Web links

Commons : Braunschweiger Straße 22 (Dortmund)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member centers in Dortmund. Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Soziokultureller Centers NW, archived from the original on February 12, 2015 ; accessed on April 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Svenja Schrickel: Annex to the list of monuments. Object Braunschweiger Strasse 22 44145 Dortmund . Ed .: City of Dortmund. August 25, 2008.
  3. ↑ We have moved . In: Klüngelkerl. Dortmund Volksblatt . June 1978.
  4. ^ Gerhard Breidenstein: To all groups in "Long August" and to all donors . September 2, 1982 (in the archive of Long August).
  5. ^ Long August in Dortmund. Long August, accessed April 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Petra L .: Some key data from the history of WiLaDo. Science Shop Dortmund, accessed on April 1, 2017 .
  7. ^ Christof Voigt: Cybercrime raid in Dortmund's north city. WDR , August 5, 2018, accessed August 5, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Sebastian Weiermann: Cybercrime in the center left? On Wednesday evening heavily armed police searched the left-wing center "Langer August" in Dortmund. Neues Deutschland , August 5, 2018, accessed on August 5, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Martin Holland: Large-scale police operation because of server: Criticism of the house search in Dortmund. Heise online , August 5, 2018, accessed on August 5, 2018 .
  10. ^ Sebastian Weiermann: Raid in Dortmund: The target was French opponents of nuclear power. Activists had drawn attention to companies that are involved in the construction of the French Cigéo nuclear waste disposal facility in Bure. Neues Deutschland, July 6, 2018, accessed on July 6, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Petra L .: Open house (s) day - heavily armed burglars occupy Lange August and steal servers from the WiLa (sic!). Wissenschaftsladen Dortmund, August 6, 2018, accessed on August 7, 2018 (also contains photos of the seizure decision and protocol).
  12. ↑ Quelques documents internes d'INGEROP. Attaque - Chronique de la guerre sociale en France, archived from the original on July 6, 2018 ; Retrieved on July 6, 2018 (French, contains most of the documents on which the house was searched).
  13. ↑ Active in Long August. Long August, accessed April 15, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Free (e) spaces. Long August, accessed April 15, 2020 .
  15. ^ Long August. (PDF) Dortmund, p.7 , archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; Retrieved April 1, 2017 .