Tuwat Congress

The Tuwat Congress (literally: do what ) held in Berlin in August 1981 was directed against the evacuation of occupied houses announced by the Berlin Senate .

background

In January 1978 the meeting in Tunix (literally: do nothing ) took place in Berlin with 15,000 participants. This congress was the "hour of birth of the alternative movement " and a reaction to the German autumn .

The “Tuwat Congress” was organized in September 1981 as part of the mobilization against the announced eviction of eight squatted houses. Following the evacuation, which took place after delays on September 22, 1981, the squatter Klaus-Jürgen Rattay died under circumstances that have not yet been clarified when he was hit by a bus.

history

Tuwat - against organized inhumanity began in August 1981 with a "Tuwat event" (called the Tuwat spectacle ), a torchlight procession to open the resistance against the threatened evictions of occupied houses. The program included tent sites, neighborhood kitchens, music and events, demonstrations and workshops.

Chronology 1981

August 9: Announcement for the “Tuwat Congress”. A four-week meeting was planned for participants from all over Europe.
August 10: The "Tuwat Information Center" was searched by a civil police officer.
August 11: Around 2000 people demonstrated against the threat of eviction from occupied houses
August 17th: Interior Senator Heinrich Lummer gave the occupants of eight houses an ultimatum to evacuate.
August 20: Around 10,000 participants demonstrated against the announced eviction.
August 25th: The Tuwat spectacle began with around 2000 (out of almost 50,000 expected from all over Europe) participants.
August 29th: A group of printers from the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel took on a sponsorship for an occupied house.
September 22: The eight occupied houses were evacuated by around 2,000 police officers. There were clashes between the police and the squatters. Klaus-Jürgen Rattay died .

With infiltrated undercover agents the squatters movement in Berlin should be brought to violent actions to "combat this scene to greatly facilitate" it said in an allegedly confidential document supplied by the intelligence. Posters and pamphlets from the Tuwat Congress were also confiscated.

Web links

In the State Archives of the International Institute for Social History . IISG , Amsterdam. Index: Berlin, Tuwat Festival. Signature: SAVRZ102 Doos 004 Map 1.1.

Der Spiegel No. 37 of September 7, 1981. Spiegel conversation between representatives of Tuwat and the Citizens Action Initiative against Chaos through violence in Berlin.

Individual evidence

↑ Der Spiegel No. 34 of August 17, 1981. Tuwat as a countermotto to Tunix . Retrieved January 15, 2010.
↑ On this, see the journal Radikal No. 97, special edition, August 1981.
^ The Tuwat Program 1981, accessed January 20, 2010.
↑ See Der Spiegel No. 34 of August 17, 1981. Accessed on January 15, 2010.
↑ State Police Headquarters, Ministry of the Interior, Dept. III. Under: EA 2/303 Bü 607. Observation of the potential terrorist support scene. Poster campaign for the Tuwat spectacle in Berlin 1966–1983. Locked until December 31, 2013. Accessed January 15, 2010.

[1] Der Spiegel No. 34 of August 17, 1981. Tuwat as a countermotto to Tunix . Retrieved January 15, 2010.

[2] On this, see the journal Radikal No. 97, special edition, August 1981.

[3] The Tuwat Program 1981, accessed January 20, 2010.

[4] See Der Spiegel No. 34 of August 17, 1981. Accessed on January 15, 2010.

[5] State Police Headquarters, Ministry of the Interior, Dept. III. Under: EA 2/303 Bü 607. Observation of the potential terrorist support scene. Poster campaign for the Tuwat spectacle in Berlin 1966–1983. Locked until December 31, 2013. Accessed January 15, 2010.