Dry piss court case

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The Trockenpisser court case refers to the legal dispute between the CDU politician Jürgen Wohlrabe and the anarchist publishers Karin and Bernd Kramer . The then member of the Berlin House of Representatives had reported the couple in 1968 because of the designation as "dry piss" in an article in the magazine Linkeck .

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Jürgen Wohlrabe was represented in court by the lawyer, party colleague and later President of the Constitutional Court, Klaus Finkelnburg , who obtained the first decisions without an oral debate. The preliminary injunction against Bernd Kramer and other court documents were printed in full in subsequent issues of the magazine and commented on with satirical comments: During an inspection of the occupied Otto Suhr Institute , Wohlrabe touched the penis of the activist Fritz Teufel and thus transmitted gonococci to him. One does not see an insult in the expression , but a fact . In addition, all seven editors at the time declared that they were responsible for the designation in equal parts.

The process was decided in favor of Wohlrabe; the amount in dispute was set at 3000 Deutsche Mark (DM). Nevertheless, the competent Berlin Regional Court concluded that “even a particularly untalented and uneducated reader [...] when studying the article [...] knows that it is not based on facts, but rather a satirical work”. The total fine is said to have been DM 7,000.

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For the magazine and student movement scene , the effects of the procedure were “ trophies of humorlessness and narrow-mindedness in society”:

" Judicial violence has been reduced to absurdity by being made to engage in adolescent jokes [...]."

The process thus had primarily symbolic significance for the 68 movement and those who sympathized ; Jürgen Wohlrabe won his first parliamentary mandate in the following year .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linkeck, Vol. 1, No. 5, OJ (1968). In: Materials for Analysis of Opposition (MAO). Dietmar Kesten, Jürgen Schröder, 1968, accessed on February 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Karin Kramer - memorial page. In: DadA-Web. Database of German-speaking anarchism. Jochen Schmück, accessed on February 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Anja Schwanhäusser: style revolt Underground. The alternative culture as an agent of postmodernism . 1st edition. LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 978-3-8258-6171-1 , p. 86 .