Literature of the world of work
With literature the world of work is literature of the 1960s and 70s years of the Federal Republic of Germany referred to in the labor and social problems of the capitalist should be moved Systems greater public awareness.
In 1961 the Dortmund library director Fritz Hüser and the trade unionist Walter Köpping founded Gruppe 61 . The group set itself the goal of bringing together writing workers on the one hand and editors, critics and journalists on the other hand and to counteract the lack of literary and artistic engagement with work and its social problems. In 1963, accompanied by protests by entrepreneurs, the novel Irrlicht und Feuer by Max von der Grün , who was a co-founder of the group and a mine train driver, was published.
The novels by Max von der Grün and Bruno Gluchowski helped to reveal the contradictions of the capitalist system and to break with the image of a class-indifferent affluent society. In the mid-1960s, authors like Christian Geissler tried to present the highly industrialized world of work in a true-to-detail and truthful manner. As a result of this, Günter Wallraff developed the approach of using direct social experience as the basis for reports and other documentary forms, which was subsequently used by authors such as Erika Runge and Friedrich Christian Delius . "Work groups for literature in the world of work" were created in several cities in Germany from the 1960s onwards. In 1970 the working group literature of the world of work was founded in Cologne , which set itself the task of promoting the literature of the wage earners, and published "A construction crane falls over. Reports from the world of work", "You carry the risk" and "Realistic writing" .
literature
- Rainer Noltenius: The Ruhr area. Center of literature in the world of work since 1960 . 1997
- Fritz Hüser, Max von der Grün (Ed.): From the world of work. Almanac of Group 61 and its guests . 1966
- Dagmar Kift: Buddy Anton, St. Barbara and the Beatles. Heroes and other models in the Ruhr area after 1945. Exhibition catalog, Essen 2010
- Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann , Jasmin Grande (ed.): Writing Worlds - Writing Worlds. For the 50th birthday of the Dortmund group 61. publications of the Fritz-Hüser-Institute for literature and culture of the working world, 22. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2011 ISBN 978-3-8375-0487-3
- Ute Gerhard , Hanneliese Palm (ed.): Writing work on the margins of literature. The Dortmund group 61. Writings of the Fritz-Hüser-Institute for literature and culture of the working world, 25. Klartext, Essen 2012 ISBN 978-3-8375-0661-7