eprintid: 10179804 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/17/98/04 datestamp: 2023-10-26 16:26:36 lastmod: 2023-10-26 16:26:36 status_changed: 2023-10-26 16:26:36 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Davies, Mererid Puw title: Dada in the Underground: Linkeck and West Berlin’s Anti-Authoritarian Newspapers, 1968–69 ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C01 divisions: J42 keywords: The Federal Republic of Germany; 1960s; protest movements; West Berlin; linkeck; anti-authoritarianism; periodicals; alternative newspapers; underground culture; anarchism; avant-garde; Dada; 1968 note: 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 abstract: 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. date: 2023-10-11 date_type: published publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP) official_url: https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad043 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2100056 doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqad043 lyricists_name: Davies, Mererid lyricists_id: MPDAV69 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Forum for Modern Language Studies volume: 59 number: 3 pagerange: 345-361 citation: Davies, Mererid Puw; (2023) Dada in the Underground: Linkeck and West Berlin’s Anti-Authoritarian Newspapers, 1968–69. Forum for Modern Language Studies , 59 (3) pp. 345-361. 10.1093/fmls/cqad043 <https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls%2Fcqad043>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179804/1/cqad043.pdf