1968 Action Council to Free Women
The Action Council was without a doubt the most successful undertaking to emerge from the student movement, since within just a few months its members had founded twelve alternative nursery schools, an after-school center and eighteen functioning working...
1968 Helke Sanders Speech
Inventing the Kinderladen/ Speech at the SDS congress in Frankfurt in ’68/ The famous tomato toss Helke Sander during the production of her film “A Reward for Irene” in 1970.
Photo: Private collection
Inventing the Ki...
1968er Movement Splits (1969 )
Two directions: Cadre party versus grassroots group/ Subordination or emancipation/ Courting workers or anticipating utopia?/ DKP: 120,000 members, cadre groups: 16,000, “Spontis“: 5,000 The new women’s movement is often viewed as an echo of the ’...
1970-80 Socialist Women’s League
The search for “levers” to mobilize the female “masses” The Socialist Women’s League of West Berlin (SFB) saw the capitalist means of production as the root of women’s oppression. Since in capitalism women continued to work in isolation as housewive...
1974 Across the Berlin Wall
The sociologist Marcia Keller asked Cillie Rentmeister and me to explain the difference between the politics of our West Berlin women's center and those of the women's organization in the GDR in an essay for a US magazine - entitled "Women in two systems"....
1996 Revisiting Old Battles
Strategies of the women’s movement in comparison Frigga Haug was one of the leading figures in the Action Council for the Liberation of Women. At the time she succeeded in implementing the idea of ideological training classes, which ultimately led t...