Paved beach
The Pflasterstrand (spelling from February 1986: "PflasterStrand") was a fortnightly or monthly Frankfurt city magazine under this name from 1976 to 1990 , the editor in charge of which was Daniel Cohn-Bendit .
Before it was called "Stadtzeitung für Frankfurt" and later "Metropolenmagazin", it appeared under a number of other subtitles that were intended to express its critical political orientation, for example: Sponti-Stadtzeitung, newspaper for city indians , newspaper for exhibitionists, newspaper for Krankfurt, newspaper the radical left in Frankfurt, newspaper for a world with fixed rules of the game and gags, central orcan of the Rhine-Main swamp, newspaper for dreamers, newspaper for Bankfurt , newspaper for Punkfurt, newspaper for Zankfurt, newspaper for Schweinfurt, newspaper for escape helpers, newspaper for left winger.
The outstanding feature of the magazine, however, was a fortnightly event calendar for music, cinema, theater, political, cultural and children's events, which at that time was not printed anywhere else in this summarized form.
history
Beginnings
The paved beach emerged from the magazine FUZZY ("Frankfurter Uni-Zzeitungs-Ynitiative") of the Frankfurt AStA . The magazine initially saw itself as the mouthpiece of the left-wing spontaneous scene in Frankfurt am Main .
The political orientation was made clear by its title, which refers to the spontaneous slogan “Under the pavement is the beach” (The slogan was older and originally came from May 1968 in Paris: Sous les pavés, la plage from the area The Situationist International . It refers to the sand that becomes visible when cobblestones were dug out of the road surface as projectiles.) At around the same time there was an anarchist magazine called Unter dem Pflaster der Strand (1974–1985) and one Film titled Under the Pavement is the Beach by Helma Sanders-Brahms (1975).
However, beyond the spontaneous scene, the magazine offered a forum for a broad spectrum of left-wing opinions. The central person and spirit rector was Daniel Cohn-Bendit . In the zero number of October 1976, the objective was formulated: “To become a representation and discussion of a spectrum that extends from macrobiots to revolutionary cells, which takes up our escape desires and individual difficulties as well as political dimensions, the brutal Repression by the police as well as self-repression among us on the left. "
Professionalization
In 1981 the preprint of the German version of the novel Chronicle of an Announced Death by Gabriel Garcia Marquez appeared on the pavement beach .
Since the mid- 1980s , the internal political editorship of the paved beach has been politically based on the line of the Realo wing within the Greens , which Cohn-Bendit and his former Sponti campaigners Joschka Fischer and Thomas Schmid played a decisive role in shaping. At the same time, there were journalistic professionalization tendencies.
From 1982, the paved beach , which until then primarily printed contributions from outside, had its own permanent editorial team: Albert Christian Sellner (pseudonym "Emil Nichtnutz"), Matthias Horx ("Paul Planet"), Georg Dick ("Trino Gordo") , Gisela Wülffing, Cora Stephan (“Vita Quell”), Tatjana Botzat, Reinhard Baigger (pseudonym “Lei P.”), Edith Kohn (“Remy Martin”), Johannes Winter (“Franz Frühling”), Reinhard Mohr , Esther Schapira , Hartwin Möhrle, Joachim Klein, Werner W. Wille. The left-wing lawyers (Mike Knöss, Wilhelm Barabas, Armin Golzem and Rupert von Plottnitz ) fought passionately - not least against the RAF ideology and the arguments of many supporters. Under the direction of Elisabeth Kiderlen, the feature section developed into a well-known culture discourse, for which (almost) everyone who needed a debate in Frankfurt published: Kasper König , Felix Schneider, Bernd Feuchtner , Heiner Goebbels , Jean Trouillet, Alexander Gauland , Claus Leggewie , Carl Hegemann ("Carolina Bonavita"), Taygun Nowbary, Heipe Weiss, Harry Oberländer , Heiko Rosner, Inga Buhmann, Ulrike Kolb , Heike Kühn, Marli Feldvoss, Cornelia Niemann , Gitta Mohrdieck, DiWi Dreyse, Frank Herterich u. v. a. In the spring of 1988 Gerd Koenen became editor at Pflasterstrand and introduced himself with a critical résumé of his previous involvement with KBW .
There was also an exchange with the taz , whose local editorial team was mainly Heide Platen, Klaus-Peter Klingelschmitt and Michael Miersch . Walter E. Baumann was responsible for the sometimes quite avant-garde (punky) layout and made sure that politics did not get too out of hand. Permanent authors came from Frankfurt's women's scene, from various centers, initiatives such as the “so -called radical left-wing wind orchestra ”, “ Karl Napps Chaostheater ”, from the alternative scene of self-managed businesses - from print shops to the cinema. The comic author Rötger Feldmann published his first comic strips under the stage name Brösel in October 1979. In the mid-1980s, there was also a regional edition of Kassel / North Hesse for some time . From 1986 onwards, Cohn-Bendit's publishing activities were funded by the SPD-led state government of Hesse with an initially interest-free loan of DM 260,000 from the "Promotion of Alternative Businesses" pot, in order to enable the state-wide expansion of the paved beach.
Change after 1987
In 1987 Matthias Kierzek, owner of the Fuldaer Verlagsanstalt and co-founder of Eichborn Verlag , joined the paved beach . The new editor-in-chief was Matthias Horx , who began to “transform the paved beach into a modern service company”. The magazine should also be useful for those "who did not necessarily throw stones at the banks in their youth". The underground newspaper, which appears fortnightly, became a monthly glossy magazine, which nonetheless did not achieve the expected success. Initially, the circulation of the new paved beach rose to 24,000, but subsequently fell again significantly. In August 1990 Kierzek sold the paved beach to the Presse Verlagsgesellschaft mbH of the two publishers Jan-Peter Eichhorn and Gerhard Krauss, which had published the competing city magazine appearance in Frankfurt since 1982 . The decision was made there in September 1990 to give up both monthly titles. The two formerly competing teams jointly developed, under the leadership of Matthias Horx and Hartwin Möhrle, who came from the cobblestone beach, a new city illustration that is now published every fortnight, which appeared for the first time in October 1990 under the title Journal Frankfurt and very quickly became the leading Frankfurt company to this day City illustrators developed.
Contributions of the Revolutionary Cells
There was a scandal when the paved beach in 1978, as part of a lengthy discussion about the hiding ex-terrorist of the revolutionary cells Hans-Joachim Klein, published a statement from his former organization under the title Dogs, you want to bark forever . The incident prompted the public prosecutor's office to search the paved beach and confiscate the entire edition of the issue in question. In 1985, Cohn-Bendit gave an interview with Klein, who was living underground at the time.
Secondary literature
- Stephanie Horn: Farewell to the collective. The Frankfurt Pavement Beach. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-925798-40-4 .
- Neo-anarchism. Renaissance and development of the libertarian press in the Federal Republic from 1968 to 1985 . In: Bernd Drücke: Between a desk and street battle? Anarchism and Libertarian Press in East and West Germany . Klemm & Oelschläger, Ulm 1998, ISBN 3-932577-05-1 , p. 150 ff.
Web links
- Documentation of the dispute about Hans-Joachim Klein in the pavement beach with the incriminated article of the Revolutionary Cells "Dogs want to bark forever" (1978) Klein interview by Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1985)
- Paved beach in the database of German-speaking anarchism (DadA)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ DadA-Periodika, Doc.-No .: DA-P0000891
- ↑ Supporting leg with coca . In: Der Spiegel. 32/1986, pp. 77/78.
- ^ "Paved beach": New partner . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1987, pp. 293 ( online ).
- ↑ Nadja Büteführ: Between Claims and Commerce: local alternative press 1970–1993: systematic derivation and empirical review . Waxmann Verlag, 1995, p. 234 f.