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Die Schwarze Risse is a bookshop in the autonomous center Mehringhof in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . In addition to the bookstore, there is the Association A publishing house .
history
The business was founded in 1980 without a name and has been operating as Schwarze Risse since 1984 . The business is organized as a collective without hierarchical structures and has the legal form of a GmbH .
From 2002 to the end of March 2012, the collective also ran a bookstore of the same name in Kastanienallee in the Prenzlauer Berg district . Since April 2012, the shop there has been an independent bookstore on the swaying globe .
publishing company
Since 1986 the shop has been publishing books in cooperation with the Rote Straße bookstore in Göttingen and the Hamburg publisher Libertäre Association . The association A publishing house emerged from the collaboration in 2001 . The focus of activity is on the political left , anarchism , anti-fascism and anti-racism . In addition to books, there are also periodicals and magazines from the left-wing scene that are not available in normal newspaper stores and readings by international authors are organized. In recent years, guests have been Gerhard Hanloser , Ulrike Heider , Doğan Akhanlı , Gabriele Dietze , Detlef Hartmann , Luiz Ruffato , Dimitris Koufontinas , Bernd Langer and numerous others.
Searches
The two shops were repeatedly the target of searches by the Federal Criminal Police Office , the public prosecutor's office and the police. In the run-up to the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007, certain books and magazines, including the underground magazine Interim , were searched for and copies found were confiscated. In retrospect, the search was declared illegal.
From January 2010, the Berlin public prosecutor's office was investigating the Schwarze Risse and two other shops in Berlin, among other things for instructions on criminal offenses . The occasion was the display of publications from the radical left, in particular five issues of Interim and the one-time publication Prisma in the shops concerned. In the course of the investigation, there were several searches and seizures in both black cracks. The shops concerned see these proceedings as an attempt by the Berlin public prosecutor's office to revise the previous case law, which assumes that booksellers have too few control options to assess the legality of the content of the books and magazines they offer. On the occasion of the proceedings, a solidarity initiative Uncensored Reading was formed which called for the "immediate cessation of the proceedings against the Berlin booksellers". The proceedings were discontinued in June 2011.
Web links
- Website: schwarzenisse.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.assoziation-a.de/
- ↑ Question of power in companies - do we even need bosses? In: the daily newspaper (taz). April 18, 2010.
- ↑ Bookstore about the swaying globe: History ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2012 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.
- ↑ Uwe Rada: Breakdown in the terrorist search. In: the daily newspaper (taz). September 10, 2007.
- ↑ Tagesschau: Raids against globalization critics were illegal ( Memento of December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). January 4, 2008, as of January 29, 2008
- ↑ nb / ddp: Raids on left-wing autonomists all over Germany. From: Focus Online , May 9, 2007, accessed June 6, 2019
- ↑ Answer of the Berlin Senator of Justice to the short question "Section 130 a StGB: Investigations against booksellers?" (PDF; 24 kB) by Dirk Behrendt from November 5, 2010. Berlin House of Representatives. Printed matter 16/14889
- ↑ M99, oh21, Schwarze Risse: Declaration on the wave of searches in Berlin's left book and information stores ( memento of the original from October 25, 2011 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. , accessed January 12, 2011
- ↑ We defend ourselves against state censorship attempts! ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2010 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. Call for solidarity by the initiative uncensored-read, November 2010
- ^ Peter Nowak : Proceedings against left-wing booksellers stopped. In: Neues Deutschland from June 15, 2011, accessed on August 11, 2011
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 31 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 20.3 ″ E