Zeitgeist (magazine)

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Zeitgeist

description For social progress, free socialism ,

Culture and current affairs

Area of ​​Expertise anarchism
language German
publishing company Stöhr (Hamburg)
First edition 1971
attitude 1974
Sold edition 500 copies
editor Otto Reimers
ZDB 9979-x

The magazine Zeitgeist "for social progress, free socialism, culture and current affairs", so the subtitle, appeared from 1971 to 1974 as an anarchist publication of the "anti-authoritarian free socialists" in Hamburg.

history

The predecessor of Zeitgeist was the magazine new start published by Otto Reimers in 1969 . She published articles on the culture and politics of anti-authoritarian socialists. new begin appeared until 1971 and was continued by Zeitgeist (Hamburg, 1971).

The Zeitgeist , also published by O. Reimers in Laufenberg and Hamburg, continued the counting with issue 12 of new begin .

Published at irregular intervals, the Zeitgeist did not differ in content or ideology from the previous magazine and later from Akratie . "The basis of anarchism is tolerance", it said in No. 22 of the Zeitgeist . The editor assumed a rethinking of society as a basis for the reorganization of a free society. Two special editions were published in 1974 and 1978 (already with the successor magazine Akratie ). Contributions were published by Miguel Garcia, Heiner Koechlin , Margareth Reimers, Barbara Poska, Günter Bartsch , Robert Lux, Rudolf Rocker , Kurt Zube , Ina Seidel, Willi Paul , Augustin Souchy , Carl Bremer , among others . The magazine was discontinued by Reimers with issue No. 30/31 and continued by Heiner Koechlin under the title Akratie .

Anarchist magazines of the same name

  • From 1873 to 1878 published in Munich with 249 issues. The subtitle read: “Organ for the Working People”, edited by A. Kiefer and RMB Geiser. The Zeitgeist was a social democratic publication with federalist, anarchist tendencies. With publications by Bruno Geiser, among others .
  • In New York, Pierre Ramus published the revolutionary, anarchist monthly newspaper Der Zeitgeist with 3 issues (1901). The humorous newspaper Der Tramp was added as a supplement . Published by Georg Biedenkapp with two editions.
  • With probably an edition published in Hanover in 1931 under the editorial direction of Fritz Pirsig, Der Zeitgeist advocated freedom of expression and a reorganization of the economy in line with anarchism. The magazine turned against Marxist dialectics .
  • The Zeitgeist in Iserlohn in 1960 was published as a pamphlet by the “ Association of Free Socialists and Anarchists ”.

Libraries, archives

literature

  • Günter Bartsch, Anarchism in Germany , Volume 2/3. Pages 150 to 153, 165, 175. Fackelträger-Verlag, Hanover 1973. ISBN 3-7716-1351-5
  • Max Nettlau (Ed.), History of Anarchy . In collaboration with the International Institute for Social History ( IISG , Amsterdam). Newly published by Heiner Becker. Library Thélème, Münster 1993, 1st edition, reprint of the Berlin edition, Verlag Der Syndikalist , 1927.
    • Volume 3 : Max Nettlau, History of Anarchy . Page 137.
      • Volume 5 : Max Nettlau, History of Anarchy . Page 289.
  • Holger Jenrich : Anarchist Press in Germany 1945-1985 (dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster). Libertarian Science, Volume 6, anyway publisher . Grafenau-Döfflingen 1988. ISBN 3-922209-75-0

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Individual evidence

  1. See on this: Günter Bartsch, Anarchismus in Deutschland . Volume 2/3, pages 150 to 153, 165, 175
  2. See on this: Max Nettlau, History of Anarchy . Volume 3, page 137
  3. See on this: Max Nettlau, History of Anarchy . Volume 5, page 289
  4. Vlg .: on this: Holger Jenrich, Anarchist Presse in Deutschland . Bibliography section. Page 337