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creators_name: Davies, Mererid Puw
title: Dada in the Underground: Linkeck and West Berlin’s Anti-Authoritarian Newspapers, 1968–69
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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
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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
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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   
 
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