konkret

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konkret
konkret


konkret is a monthly German magazine "for politics and culture" (according to its subtitle) that has existed since 1957.

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[edit] Origins

[edit] Studentenkurier

In 1955, Klaus Rainer Röhl started the monthly Studentenkurier (~ "Student Messenger"), which was published until 1957. Due to the contributions of many authors as Werner Riegel, Peter Rühmkorf, Arno Schmidt, Kurt Hiller, it became a very influential magazine among students.

[edit] Start of konkret

On the basis of the success of the Studentenkurier, konkret was founded by Röhl in 1957. Until 1964, it had clandestine ideological and financial relations with the East German government.[1] Innovative in its style, beautifully illustrated and printed on huge folio size heavy stock, its pages often ended up as posters on students' dorm walls and university capus fences. It had great influence with progressive intellectuals, both students and adults. In the high phase of the German student movement of the sixties, it appeared biweekly and sometimes even weekly.

One of the most well-known workers of the magazine was Ulrike Meinhof, the editor-in-chief from 1962. She ended her work for konkret early in 1969 shortly before she joined the Red Army Faction. On May 7, 1969, the house of konkret publisher Klaus Rainer Röhl was stormed by activists including konkret staff under Meinhof's leadership, its windows and furnishing destroyed.

[edit] konkret since 1974

The current location of publication is Hamburg and the chief publisher since 1974 has been journalist Hermann L. Gremliza, who also writes the introduction column of the magazine.

konkret presents itself as a radical leftist magazine, standing to left of Germany's established parties. Currently, it is often connected to the Anti-German movement, although this attribution has been rejected by Gremliza. Its maxim is "reading what others don't want to know" (lesen, was andere nicht wissen wollen).

Notable contributors during the Gremliza era (among numerous others) were:

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