Tumult. Quarterly for Consensus Disruption

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TUMULT - Quarterly for Consensus Disorders

description magazine
publishing company Friends of the quarterly TUMULT e. V. ( Germany )
First edition 11th March 2013
Frequency of publication quarterly
editor Frank Böckelmann
Web link www.tumult-magazine.net
Article archive Series of works
ISSN (print) 2363-9911

Tumult. Quarterly journal for disagreement with consensus (own spelling: TUMULT) is a magazine founded in 2013 , published by Frank Böckelmann .

prehistory

A series of publications under the title Tumult has existed since 1979. The title word "Tumult" names an unintentional, involuntary riot and alludes to the Latin word for "much" or "much" with its second syllable. It does not represent a political or literary program, but has empirical meaning: Our situation reveals itself as an uncontrolled mess, as a confusion without an originator. “Tumult” distances itself from the mania for feasibility: from the hubris that one “invents” the world and “constructs” one's own identity at will.

In the nineties and after the turn of the century, usually only one volume was completed per year, the sold circulation stagnated in a range between 200 and 400 copies. Right from the start, the series suffered from the clumsiness of an editorial staff with a strong head, whose members, who were mainly employed in universities, often delayed the completion of the planned volumes due to lack of time and / or skills. The series also suffered from the fact that the interests and expectations of the respective publisher and those of the editorial team usually diverged and the inevitable disappointments on both sides escalated.

From the beginning of 2013, the editors Frank Böckelmann and Horst Ebner concentrated their work on the development of a new TUMULT project - an interdisciplinary periodical, the "Quarterly Journal for Disorders of Consensus". Böckelmann resigned as co-editor of the publications on transport science in February 2016. This series, now published by Ivo Gurschler, Andreas Leopold Hofbauer and Walter Seitter and continued by Sonderzahl Verlag (Vienna), dropped the title “Tumult” in October 2018.

Foundation, content, edition

The first edition of the quarterly publication appeared in spring 2013. But it has only been published quarterly since the second edition (spring 2014). A non-profit association (Friends of Vierteljahresschrift Tumult eV) based in Dresden acts as publisher and owner of the magazine. Frank Böckelmann, Dresden, and Horst Ebner, Vienna, jointly edited and responsible for it up to and including the winter 2015/16 edition. In December 2015, a fierce dispute broke out in the wider circle of employees of the quarterly journal about the contributions by Frank Böckelmann, Reinhard Jirgl , Wolfgang Hetzer, Rudolf Burger , Rolf Peter Sieferle and Ulrich Schacht (in the winter 2015/16 edition) on the subject of mass immigration from the Middle East and Africa to Europe, especially Germany. In the course of this dispute, around 20 authors declared that they no longer wanted to belong to the "staff" of around 100 people. At the same time, just as many new authors joined. Horst Ebner gave up his role as co-editor. He justified this step “with the way in which in a mood of collective excessive demands, especially authors from the journal's immediate environment, reacted to the epoch-making issue of mass migrations to Europe: old ideological front lines suddenly reverted to less of an argumentative contradiction than to moralizing rhetoric of excitement drawn."

For the decision to re-establish TUMULT as an organ of current debate, Böckelmann and Ebner named two main reasons: "the noticeable reluctance of intellectuals in the face of the convulsion of global powers and markets and the growing consensus pressure in public opinion online and offline". This pressure of consensus is generated by "globally networked reality scavengers" (powerful producers of meaning in business, politics and the media), by elite networks established around the world, the "reform of universities based on increasing efficiency" and by one in the "communities" and forums of the Internet fanned “highly conformist understanding”. The two editors at the time saw “the equalization (leveling) of today” in the “plurality” and “open-mindedness” that are on display today. The journal should be an "independent organ for exploring the present far removed from academic and popular educational language regulations" and, by definition, "not a scientific journal".

The quarterly journal for the disruption of consensus presents itself on 96, recently 112 pages as a cross-thematic forum, divided into two basic sections ("Schneisen" - in the winter 2015/16 issue instead "The Great Immigration" - and "Exposures"), four subject sections ("Rooms des Politischen ”,“ The Management of the Future ”,“ The Specter of Sexuality ”and“ Lebenswelt Netz ”) and pages for poetry (“ Landscapes ”), edited by Alexander Schuller . The editions in 2014 and 2015 were each dedicated to the work of a particular thinker with preferably unpublished texts. Walter Benjamin , Panajotis Kondylis , Georges Bataille , Carl Schmitt , Otto Gross , Richard Lewinsohn and Herbert Marcuse were presented in this way .

The workforce includes around 100 authors. The inner circle of authors who were each represented in the quarterly with several articles include: a. Parviz Amoghli, Jörg Bernig , Michael Böhm , Rudolf Brandner, Peter J. Brenner, Martin Burckhardt , Rudolf Burger , Meinhard Creydt, Sophie Dannenberg , Johannes Eisleben, Michael Esders, Santiago Ewig, Egon Flaig , Lothar Fritze , Jörg Gerke, Siegfried Gerlich , Albrecht Goeschel, Jürgen Große, Christian J. Grothaus, Bettina Gruber, Sebastian Hennig , Horst G. Herrmann, Thomas Hoof, Lorenz Jäger , Reinhard Jirgl , Hervé Juvin, Thomas Kapielski , Sibylle Klefinghaus , Helmut Kohlenberger , Adorján Kovács, Josef Kraus , Martin Kurthen, Armin Langroudi, Manfred Lauermann , Dörthe Lütjohann, Sonja Margolina , Matthias Matussek, Alexander Meschnig, Jonathan Meynrath, Alexander Michailowski, Marc Pommerening, Ulrich Schacht , Bernd Schick, Wolfgang Schivelbusch , Alexander Schuller, Jürgen Paul Schwindt, Walter Seitter , Eberhard Sens , Rolf Peter Sieferle , Werner Sohn, Wolfgang H. Spindler, Yannic Weber, Michael Zeller and Benjamin Jahn Zschocke. Some authors like Michael Böhm, Siegfried Gerlich, Bettina Gruber, Ulrich Schacht u. a. are assigned to the " new rights ". Gerlich and Gruber (under the nom de plume Sophie Liebnitz) publish regularly in the new right magazine Sezession ; others such as B. Lorenz Jäger have distanced themselves from the “right” or deny belonging to a political current.

The quarterly publication appears in a print run of 3800 copies (as of 6/2019) and is mainly offered in the magazine trade in German-speaking countries. The magazine's sponsoring association operates its own delivery service. The editorial line of the magazine is given special mention in the article about Frank Böckelmann.

Media coverage

The character and political orientation of the quarterly Tumult have been the subject of comments in the feature sections of the daily and weekly press since it was founded. They were assessed very differently, according to the sympathies of the reviewers. In the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Heribert Seifert emphasized “the decisive turn to obstinacy and the proper right of the particular”, the great “thematic range” and the juxtaposition of “left” and “right” publicists, while the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung made the VJS tumult “avant-garde of the New Right ”and in several articles - such as Der Spiegel - the focus was on the VJS's interest in introducing anti-universalist terminology (“ hypermorality ”,“ indifference ”,“ lack of position ”, etc.). In the New York Times , Christopher Caldwell described tumult as a "contrarian quarterly" (a "contradicting" or "stubborn, lateral thinking quarterly"). Harry Nutt summed up in the Frankfurter Rundschau , “the project, disrupted consensus, reflects on the subversive energies of earlier days”.

At the Frankfurt Book Fair, unknown perpetrators cleared the joint stand of the Manuscriptum Verlagbuchhandlung and the VJS Tumult almost completely on the night of October 12-13, 2017, leaving behind dirt and obscene drawings. The Association of German Book Trade was called just before the fair opens in a press statement "active discussion" with "right publishers." The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on the incident on October 14th and mentioned that Frank Böckelmann “rejected the designation of his company as a“ right-wing publisher ”; this is an ascription that cannot be defended against ”. The Sächsische Zeitung announced on the same day that publisher Frank Böckelmann was not speculating about responsibilities and “not morally indignant because of the possible political background”, but was “also not surprised”. In the literary world , Marc Reichwein came to the conclusion on October 16, 2017: “The fact that the magazine, in which honorable journalists such as Wolfgang Schivelbusch publish, subtitled 'Quarterly journal for disagreement with consensus' could make us all think about whether the consensus discourse Has taken on repressive traits. ”In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 16, 2017, Simon Strauss devotes himself to the article“ What is the artist in today's world ”by the Polish author and theater director Antoni Libera and published in the TUMULT winter edition 2017/18 asks with him "Where is the artistic pleasure in the strange, in the contradicting, mysterious, inexplicable?" The wish expressed by Libera to soon witness the emergence of a new aesthetically oriented cultural movement beyond commerce and artistically disguised exhibitionism corresponds to Strauss' The idea of ​​“preparing the ground for a renaissance of the aesthetic”.

The taz criticized the fact that at a "Tumult Forum" event held in February 2020 by the speaker Egon Flaig, the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke was indirectly implicated in his murder, referring to his previous statements on German refugee policy.

In a passage from his book Was nottut read in the “Tumult Forum” by Egon Flaig . In a plea for enlightened conservatism , the author refers to the murder of Walter Lübcke and the accusation of Parliamentary State Secretary Peter Tauber against Erika Steinbach that she was complicit in Lübcke's death because she repeated his known statements (in October 2015) in the following years the social media had circulated: “Anyone who takes the floor in public must stand up for this word - for all time. There is no dispensation for the murdered person either. [...] Anyone who correctly reproduces a statement made by me and lets it circulate publicly, although it harms me, does me no wrong. [...] If the Parliamentary State Secretary Tauber does not distinguish between true and falsified, then he accuses people who spread true facts. To blame such people for political murders is intellectual terrorism and betrays a totalitarian attitude. This accusation - of being “complicit” in a murder - is vile; and he's one of the worst hate comments. "

The series of works by TUMULT

Edited by Frank Böckelmann, the Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhandlung (Lüdinghausen / Berlin) has been publishing a series of monographs since the beginning of 2017, "empirically founded situation analyzes from the authors and topics of the quarterly journal". Three or four volumes are presented each year. In 2017, works by Rolf Peter Sieferle ( The Migration Problem ), Dimitrios Kisoudis ( Was Now? From the Welfare State to the Ordinary State ), Wolfgang Hetzer ( Bankendämmerung ) and Peter J. Brenner ( Stranger Gods. Religion in the Migration Society ) were published in 2018 Writings by Parviz Amoghli and Alexander Meschnig ( victories or on the loss of self-assertion ) and Josef Kraus ( 50 years of re-education. The 68ers and their legacies ) and in 2019 so far writings by Werner Sohn ( foreigner crime, right-wing extremism, riot. A critique of politicized criminology ) and Siegfried Kohlhammer ( At the expense of the Third World? ).

literature

  • Karin Priester : Philosophy of the Apocalypse. Spiritual Pathfinders of the New Right. In: Sheets for German and international politics . No. 10, 1995, pp. 1241-1251.
  • Thomas Thiel: Encapsulated - turmoil in a new form. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 73, March 27, 2013, p. N3.
  • Where's the turmoil? Russia? Financial crisis? Equality? Islam? The Dresden journalist Frank Böckelmann misses a real culture of debate in Germany. In: Saxon newspaper . August 6, 2014, p. 7.
  • Caspar Boehme: Bad time to exercise power. In: the daily newspaper (taz), August 28, 2014.
  • Gerhard Oberschlick : Not sufficiently controversial. Why nothing appears in the “tumult” from Günther Anders ' estate. In: sans phrase . Journal of ideological criticism. Issue 6, spring 2015, ISSN  2194-8860 , pp. 233–241 ( table of contents of the issue ; full text on the FORVM website : contextxxi.org [accessed on January 15, 2019]).
  • Heribert Seifert: Attack on the new conformism. The German magazine “Tumult” sees itself as a platform for self-thinkers. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 3, 2015, p. 13 ( nzz.ch ).
  • Thomas Steinfeld: Of children and men. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 15, 2016, p. 11.
  • Frank Böckelmann: Longing for home. In: Focus . No. 04/16, January 23, 2016, p. 44 f. ( focus.de ).
  • Mark Siemons: Hyper! Moral! Finally discovered: the program font of Merkel's opponents. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . January 24, 2016, p. 41.
  • Christian Schröder: The great lesson. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 2, 2016, p. 23.
  • Albrecht von Lucke in conversation with Michael Köhler: Intellectuals on refugee policy. "A very dangerous intonation". In: Deutschlandfunk . February 7, 2016 ( deutschlandfunk.de ).
  • Matthias Dusini: Longing for belonging. The chubby Facebook was previously the forum for refugee phobics. Tumult magazine now gives right-wing populists an intellectual voice. In: Falter . No. 6, February 10, 2016, p. 20 ( falter.at ).
  • Romain Leick: The realm of lies . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 2016, p. 116-120 ( Online - Apr. 16, 2016 ). .
  • H. v. Z .: Old Europe now new at "Tumult". Excursions to the editorials of barbarism. In: sans phrase. Journal of ideological criticism. Issue 9, autumn 2016, ISSN  2194-8860 , p. 99 ( table of contents of the issue ).
  • Magnus Klaue: Land grabbing in the bottomless. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 95, April 24, 2017, p. 13.
  • Dierk Spreen : The intellectuals and right-wing populism. In: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte . No. 5, 2017, pp. 42–47.
  • Harry Nutt: The Kulturkampf of the New Right. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . 23rd June 2017.
  • Christopher Caldwell: Germany's Newest Intellectual Antihero. In: The New York Times . July 8, 2017 ( nytimes.com ).
  • Jan Wiele ("wiel"): Riot in tumult. Exhibition books stolen from the publisher. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 239, October 14, 2017, p. 11.
  • Marc Reichwein: It's the worst-case scenario for a book fair. In: The literary world . October 15, 2017 ( welt.de ).
  • Simon Strauss: Artists, emancipate yourselves! In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. December 16, 2017 ( faz.net ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ISSN  2363-9911 .
  2. ↑ Quotation from Frank Böckelmann: On our own behalf. Horst Ebner, co-founder of the magazine, is withdrawing. In: Tumult - Quarterly for Consensus Disruption. Spring 2016 edition, p. 7 ( PDF; 1.3 MB; PDF-p. 4 ( Memento from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )).
  3. ↑ To the staff. In: tumult-magazine.net, accessed on April 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ Reading of the "Tumult" magazine: In the right bladder. In: taz . February 21, 2020, accessed March 5, 2020.
  5. ↑ [Egon Flaig: What is necessary. A plea for enlightened conservatism. The series of works by TUMULT, vol. 9. Lüdinghausen / Berlin 2019, p. 84 f.]