Black thread

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Black thread
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description Anarchist magazine
Area of ​​Expertise anarchism
language German
First edition May 1980
Frequency of publication Quarterly
Sold edition 3200 copies
ISSN (print) 0722-8988

Schwarzer Faden (SF) was a quarterly anarchist magazine. It was published from May 1980 to July 2004 .

history

The Schwarze Faden was founded in 1979 at the Frankfurter Gegenbuchmesse, founded in 1976, by employees of the however publishing house (Reutlingen), the publishing house Büchse der Pandora (Münster) as well as representatives of the I-FAU and the magazine Graswurzelrevolution .

The distribution took place through the anyway publishing house, the editorial meetings took place first in Reutlingen, later in Grafenau near Stuttgart . In 1983 , the SF editorial team established the Anarchist Forum for Libertarian Information (FLI), which for years organized one or two national anarchist discussion meetings. The contents of the journal should be pre-discussed in the FLI. In 1988, however, the editorial team withdrew from the FLI.

Since the mid-1980s, the editorial team has increasingly opened up to the Autonomous , which was controversially discussed. From 1986 until the end, the Black Thread was subtitled magazine for lust and freedom .

In 1990 the magazine reached its journalistic peak, which it could hold for about five years; the circulation had risen continuously from 900 to 3200 copies (No. 50). The sales structure reached numerous left bookstores and resellers, the number of subscribers had grown to almost 1,000. Against this background, the SF “sponsored” the anarchist magazine Agitación in Argentina .

From 1996 until it was discontinued in 2004, the circulation decreased again to 2500. The subscription numbers remained relatively constant, but the transformation of the originally widespread left-wing book trade and the compulsion for many shops to give up “the unprofitable magazine shelves” caused the spread in many cities to collapse. In 2001, the non-profit educational association for the dissemination of libertarian information was founded, which was to become the organizational basis of the magazine for a short time, because the editorial team of the magazine wanted to continue to work independently with the conversion of the publishing house into a cooperative.

In 1995 a register of the first 50 regular editions and the first three special issues appeared as a 74-page brochure and as a Word file on diskette . The regular authors and translators included Bernhard Arracher , Jörg Auberg , Uri Avnery , Klaus Bittermann , Janet Biehl , Stefan Blankertz , Horst Blume , Murray Bookchin , Ulrich Bröckling , Noam Chomsky , Hans-Jürgen Degen , Gregor Dill , Bernd Drücke , Winand Ehls , Group Demontage Hamburg , the group Revolutionsbräuhof Vienna, Egon Günther , Hellmut G. Haasis , Jutta Hackland , Wolfgang Haug , Johannes Hilmer , Jan Jacob Hofmann , Heinz Hug , Friederike Kamann , Gerhard Kern , Gaston Kirsche , Ulrich Klan , Uli Klemm , Arno Klönne , Jochen Knoblauch , Marianne Kröger , Ralf G. Landmesser , the autonomous LUPUS Group Frankfurt, Ulli Mamat , Franz-Josef Marx , Jürgen Mümken , Dieter Nelles, Ronald Ofteringer , Syma Popper , Winfried Reebs , Helmut Richter , Andi Ries , Herby Sachs , Boris Scharlowski , Michael Schiffmann , Edo Schmidt , Jochen Schmück , Augustin Souchy , Horst Stowasser , Thea Struchtemeier , Clara Thalmann , Ilija Trojanow , Peter Walter , Wolf Wetzel , Jü rgen Wierzoch , Michael Wilk , Siegbert Wolf and Peter-Paul Zahl .

In 2004 the last edition appeared for the time being. The appointment was due to numerous other personal and professional obligations of the remaining honorary editors. The last two editors in charge, Ries and Haug, said goodbye in 2005 with a circular to all subscribers in which they also printed an obituary for the editor Ernst Schein , who died in Zurich in 2005, and an employee of the émigré magazine Dinge Der Zeit , which was published from 1947 to 1997 .

Objectives and content of the magazine

The black thread wanted to become a forum for discussion of various libertarian approaches and in this way update the theory of anarchism. Furthermore, the should history of anarchism , counter-culture , patriarchy , anti-pedagogy , libertarian education , neoliberalism and criticism of the media play an important role.

78 regular issues as well as the special issues were published by the black thread

  • Decline of Labor (1985),
  • Feminism - Anarcha Feminism 1 (1988),
  • Feminism-Anarchafeminism 2 (1997, = No. 62) and
  • Nostalgia edition (1985, with contributions from the first editions that were quickly sold out).

In addition to the Direct Action of FAU and the grassroots revolution, the black thread was the most important magazine on the subject of anarchism.

literature

  • Günter Bartsch : Who still dares to be an anarchist? - Black thread . In: Frankfurter Hefte . 39th volume, issue 9, 1984.
  • Holger Jenrich: Anarchist Press in Germany 1945–1985 . Nevertheless publisher, Grafenau 1988, ISBN 3-922209-75-0 .
  • Bernd Drücke : Between a desk and a street battle? Anarchism and Libertarian Press in East and West Germany . Verlag Klemm & Oelschläger, Ulm 1998, ISBN 3-932577-05-1 , p. 203-213 .
  • “Spinning the black thread further”. An interview with SF co-founder Wolfgang Haug . In: Bernd Drücke (Ed.): Yes! Anarchism. Lived utopia in the 21st century . Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-87956-307-1 , p. 103-113 ( online in Grassroots Revolution No. 282, October 2003).
  • Helge Döhring: Journalism and Research for Anarchism. In conversation with Wolfgang Haug . In: Syfo. Research & Movement . No. 5 . Edition AV, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86841-138-6 , ISSN  2192-6980 , pp. 73-101 .
  • Jochen Knoblauch (Ed.): Register Schwarzer Faden Issue 1–50. (including zero number and special issues) . 1st edition. Nevertheless, Verlag, Grafenau 1995, ISBN 3-922209-93-9 (also published as MS Word file on diskette ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ die horen 26 (1981), 2, p. 170