TY - JOUR PB - Oxford University Press (OUP) JF - Forum for Modern Language Studies N1 - This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits noncommercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com ID - discovery10179804 UR - https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad043 AV - public SP - 345 N2 - This article explores the importance of periodicals for the 1960s protest movements in West Germany. It opens with the significance of both mainstream news media and New Left journals. Attention then turns to a different class of periodical, the anti-authoritarian underground newspaper, examined here through one emblematic example, linkeck [leftangle], which was produced in a centre of revolt, West Berlin, in 1968?69. While linkeck had limited circulation and was short-lived, it achieved notoriety and gave rise to a series of successors. To understand linkeck?s impact and meanings, this article comments on its origins in an anti-authoritarian commune and its philosophy on work, politics and relationships; its ephemerality; its influences and interests; its distinctive style and its conflicts with the law. In conclusion, the essay argues that linkeck epitomizes anti-authoritarian themes and form, and that periodicals were the movements? most characteristic genre. Throughout, the essay also considers key resonances between linkeck and earlier twentieth-century (anti-)artistic avant-gardes, notably Dada. VL - 59 TI - Dada in the Underground: Linkeck and West Berlin?s Anti-Authoritarian Newspapers, 1968?69 Y1 - 2023/10/11/ IS - 3 EP - 361 A1 - Davies, Mererid Puw KW - The Federal Republic of Germany; 1960s; protest movements; West Berlin; linkeck; anti-authoritarianism; periodicals; alternative newspapers; underground culture; anarchism; avant-garde; Dada; 1968 ER -