Association of socialist cultural workers
The Association of Socialist Cultural Creators (VSK, also Association of Socialist Cultural Creators ) was an organization related to the Maoist Communist Party of Germany (KPD / AO), which existed from 1975 to early 1978. The successor organization was the Vereinigung Kultur und Volk , which published the magazine " Traces" .
history
The Maoist KPD announced at its cultural congress on May 20, 1973 in Dortmund the founding of a “proletarian cultural association”. After the publication of a “manifesto” on May 26, 1974, local “initiatives to found an association of socialist cultural workers” (ISK) emerged. From their merger, the VSK became a registered association in May 1975.
The VSK had local groups and initiative groups in a little more than ten cities with (1976) 150 members from the cultural sector. She published the magazine Kämpfende Kunst , of which Klaus Kreimeier was the editor in charge , and in 1975 took over the magazine Kunst und Gesellschaft, which had been in existence since 1970 . The proximity to the KPD / AO resulted from the fact that “more than 2/3 of the members of their 13-person central executive committee have reliable information about activities for the KPD”. The VSK called for the election of the Maoist KPD in its magazines in 1975 and 1976.
After the second party congress of the KPD, the VSK broke away from the party and renamed itself in early 1978 to Vereinigung Kultur und Volk .
Members (selection)
- Konrad Boehmer , Felix Droese , Jochen Hiltmann , Jörg Immendorff , Michael König , Klaus Kreimeier , Klaus Kuhnke , Claus-Peter Lieckfeld , Detlef Michel , Heinrich Pachl , Frieder Reininghaus , Friedrich Rothe , Rüdiger Safranski , Wolfgang Schwiedrzik
Publications
- The art belongs to the people! Down with the revisionist cultural propaganda! Minutes of the cultural congress of the KPD in Dortmund on May 20, 1973 , Berlin: Verlag Rote Fahne, 1973 (2nd edition 1974)
- Socialist magazine for art and society (KuG, art and society ), Berlin 1970 to 1977 (taken over by the VSK in 1975)
- Fighting Arts , 1975 to 1977
- Traces. Journal for Art and Society (until 1980 published by the successor organization Vereinigung Kultur und Volk )
literature
- Constitutional Protection Reports 1975 and 1977
- Association of Socialist Cultural Creators (VSK) . In: Innere Sicherheit , No. 32 of February 13, 1976, pp. 10-11
- Kurt Eichler: The Maoists on the cultural front . In: Kürbiskern , Munich 1977, Issue 3, pp. 86–95
- Jürgen Harder: Class struggle and “left” art theories. On the anti-communism of art-theoretical conceptions of left-wing radicalism in the FRG (1965–1975) . Dietz , Berlin, 1978, DNB 861187113 , especially p. 117ff. "With anti-Sovietism and anti-GDR agitation against the intellectual and cultural charisma of socialism"
Individual evidence
- ^ Founding conference of the VSK on 18./19. May 1975
- ↑ Internal Security , No. 32 of February 13, 1976, p. 11
- ^ All signatories of the manifesto Initiative for the establishment of an association of socialist cultural workers , in: KuG 23/24, July 1974, p. 101
