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# Berlin Goes Feminist

anarchism - lesbianism - feminism

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## Pages

- [Introduction](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/) - Modernizing society? The feminist movement developed in West Germany around 1973; it created women’s centers and within just a few years hundreds of innovative women’s projects. Explore the Digital Archive on Feminism in Berlin from 1968 onwards. Discover the history of women's activism, key figures, and pivotal events that shaped the city. A comprehensive documentation.
- [1974 Critical Review](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/feminism-at-work/1974-critical-review/) - Meeting minutes describe the weakness and perplexity of the Center women Viewed from today’s perspective, the development of the new women’s movement seems consistent and easy to understand. A report[i] from the early days of the Berlin women’s center pinpointing the weaknesses of women’s center groups in those days, written by member Sibylle Weber, offers
- [1906 Anarchism](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/militant-women/1906-anarchism/) - “Propaganda of the deed”/ Historical anarchism, my grandfather as an example What is anarchism? The term has consistently been used as a pejorative— depicting anarchists as insurrectionists, a black bloc, bomb plotters and terrorists. But anarchism is primarily a political stance that has resurfaced repeatedly for centuries, regaining currency and finding new supporters. Anarchists rebel
- [About the Book and the Author](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/about-the-book-and-the-author/) - This historical source of documents and interviews with feminist activists was published as a book in 2015 and translated by Pamela Selwyn
- [1968er Movement Splits (1969 )](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-debates/1968er-movement-splits-1969/) - Two directions: Cadre party versus grassroots group. Subordination or emancipation. Courting workers or anticipating utopia? DKP: 120,000 maoists: 16,000, Undogmatic: 5,000
- [1974 Flying Lesbians, Feminist Festivals](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/feminism-at-work/1974-flying-lesbians-feminist-festivals/) - Women’s festivals as rites of passage and initiation – an anthropological analysis by Cillie Rentmeister Women’s festivals We (about one hundred) women from the Berlin women’s center were taking a big chance when we rented a hall for 2,000 people in April 1974. This would be our first public women’s party. Instead of listening to
- [1973-74 Witch Hunt](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/lesbian-life/1973-74-witch-hunt/) - Lesbian groups and women’s centers join forces On the occasion of the 1974 murder trial of Marion Ihns and Judy Andersen in Itzehoe, lesbian groups and women’s centers throughout Germany began to work together. In November 1972 the couple had been arrested and charged with paying a man to kill Marion Ihns’s abusive husband. After
- [1968 Helke Sanders Speech](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-debates/1968-helke-sanders-speech-2/) - Inventing the Kinderladen. Speech at the SDS congress in Frankfurt 1968, the famous tomato toss
- [1973-76 Forms of Action](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/feminism-at-work/1973-76-forms-of-action/) - Trips to Holland, leaving the church, self-exams, abortion film, sit-ins, hunger strikes, demonstrations, women’s seminars, songs, women’s festivals Cover of the first issue of the Frauenzeitung. This women’s paper promoted communication among distant groups, and the editorial board rotated from one city to the next. Iconography At the beginning, the logo of the new
- [1971 Bread and Roses](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/feminism-at-work/1971-bread-and-roses/) - Elitist and effective Some descriptions of the beginnings of the new women’s movement in Berlin give the false impression that one group developed out of another, for example the women’s center out of Bread and Roses. The head of Bread and Roses was Helke Sander. Having initiated the alternative nursery school (Kinderladen) movement and the
- [1950-72 Lesbian Life before Liberation](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/lesbian-life/1950-72-lesbians-before-liberation/) - Everything happened in private/ They’re more sophisticated nowadays, but the romance is gone/The 1950s/ a gift to all the women in the world! Lyrics of We are the homosexual women In the chapter Little Band of Perverts I describe the beginnings and structure of a visible lesbian subculture in Berlin in the early 1970s. But
- [1970 Militant Women’s Call to Action](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/militant-women/1970-militant-womens-call-to-action/) - A Berlin women’s group issues a call to arms in Agit 883, refering to Solanas, Mao and Castro
- [Disenchantment](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-experience/disenchantment-1969/) - The revolt of 1968 at the Film Academy Berlin ended dramatically: The most active and creative students had been expulsed.
- [1973 German Feminist Groups Report](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/feminism-at-work/1973-german-feminist-groups-report/) - The state of the women’s movement in February ’73 and ten months later: Contents, aims, issues/ Two reports provide insight into developments West German women’s groups gathered for nationwide meetings in Munich in February 1973 and in Coburg during the winter holidays almost a year later. The minutes of the meetings show the state of
- [1970-77 	Fear and Terror](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/militant-women/1970-77-fear-and-terror/) - The arrogance of militant activists/ Civil rights suspended/ How did the Radikalenerlass work? The period when the Berlin women’s center was founded was marked by terror, and this terror assumed a number of guises: many women’s center activists knew there was no point in applying for a public service job after completing their studies because
- [1996 Revisiting Old Battles](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-debates/leftist-debates1996-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 to the dissolution of the group and its refounding in 1970 as the Socialist Women’s
- [Debating Militancy](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/militant-women/) - In 1998, on the thirtieth anniversary of 1968, the media showcased the spokesmen of the time: Rudi Dutschke, Bernd Rabehl, Knut Nevermann, Rainer Langhans and Horst Mahler. They accorded them hours of broadcasting time for their mainly negative assessment of 1968. The following chapters describe the 68er movement from the perspective of a woman, a
- [Consciousness-raising groups (1973)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/womens-center/cr-groups-1973/) - In CR-groups we freed ourselves of political norms and focused on our own life experience: The privat is political. Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm
- [In Search of a Theory](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-experience/searching-for-a-theory-1971/) - Frauen treten linken Parteien bei Die Politik unserer Frauenkommune beschränkte sich auf „Aktionismus“. Durch Verhaltensänderungen und Grenzüberschreitungen versuchten wir, unseren Weg nach vorne zu finden. Wir waren verwirrt und bereit, alles zu versuchen, was es leichter machte, die militantere Lösung als die politisch angemessenere zu betrachten. Die linke Bewegungals Ganzes war es jedoch auf See.
- [Sexual Revolution?](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-experience/sexual-revolution-1969/) - The Whore Complex In no. 35 of the journal Kursbuch, published in 1974, five women converse about their experiences with the “sexual revolution,” among other things: Wera: What happened when you practiced this ‘free sexuality’ and slept with a comrade? He didn’t take you seriously anymore and treated you worse than before. I never understood
- [’68 From Below](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-experience/68-from-below-1968/) - In 1998, on the thirtieth anniversary of 1968, the media showcased the spokesmen of the time: Rudi Dutschke, Bernd Rabehl, Knut Nevermann, Rainer Langhans and Horst Mahler. They accorded them hours of broadcasting time for their mainly negative assessment of 1968. The following chapters describe the 68er movement from the perspective of a woman, a
- [Theory Skirmishes (1973)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/lesbians-organize/theory-skirmishes-1973/) - The once conflicting parties explain their points of view from today’s perspective, as well as their motivations at the time. After the initial euphoria, the women’s group of Homosexual Action West Berlin (HAW) began to experience conflicts similar to those that had broken out in the Action Council for the Liberation of Women and the
- [Militant Women](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-experience/militant-women-1970/) - So I left the Wochenschau group because it was too moderate, I announced, and joined a group of anarchist-minded women with whom I worked on the collective of the newspaper Agit 883. That meant translating Italian and French articles, typing up the pages, doing layout and selling the paper in the working-class districts on the
- [Women Make Movies (1971)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-experience/women-make-movies-1971/) - Women Make Movies (1971) Feisty suburban women plan a film/ “Camera as weapon”/ The “apron-pocket screenplay”/ Feminist realism/ Collective work practices/ Effects I got to know the Tenants’ Council in the Märkisches Viertel neighborhood through my contact with the filmmaker Max Willutzki, and I attended their meetings regularly from the summer of 1970. Together with
- [Lesbian and Strait Women Cooperate (1973)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/womens-center/lesbian-and-strait-women-cooperate-1973/) - Lesbians fight abortion ban, strait support gay women against the witch-hunt of the press. Emotional independence from men. A song on bisexuality.
- [Feminist Projects (1974-76)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/womens-center/womens-projects-berlin1972-74/) - feminist projects founded in berlin 1972-1974, all without public dough
- [1967 Valery Solanas](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/valery-solanas/) - Valerie Solanas is widely known as the woman who shot Andy Warhol in 1968. Her purpose was to gain more publicity for her SCUM Manifesto, and in this she succeeded. The German translation was published just a year later by März-Verlag. Solanas’s Manifesto was devoured by schoolgirls, students and housewives alike. A letter from a
- [Women’s Commune](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-experience/womens-commune-1971/) - Vier Frauen auf dem Kriegspfad/Die Suche nach neuen Verhaltensweisen und Frauenbildern/Entstehung der Bewegung des 2. Juni Ich verbrachte den Sommer und Herbst 1970 mit den Frauen von Agit 883 , aber wir kamen dort mit dem „Frauengeschäft“ nicht wirklich voran. Die Männer instrumentalisierten und schüchterten uns ein. Dann wurden Annerose Reiche und ihr Freund wegen
- [Little Band of "Perverts" (1972)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/lesbians-organize/little-band-of-perverts-1972/) - The courage to go public as a despised, “perverted” minority changes our self-image. Although we recognized the importance of a women’s center, it would be two years before one opened in Berlin. Women were still fighting in mixed neighborhood committees for space for their issues, for women’s politics, while lesbians no longer felt the need
- [Lesbian Movement (1972-74)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/lesbians-organize/lesbian-movement-1974/) - The lesbian group’s greatest impact came with the documentary film … and we take our rights, which Claus-Ferdinand Siegfried made for WDR television together with some women from HAW, a film that was broadcast during prime time on the first program of ARD and received a good deal of attention in all the print media.
- [1968 Action Council to Free Women](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-debates/1968-action-council-to-free-women-3/) - 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 groups. For the first time, the beginnings of the “counter-society” envisioned by the ‘68ers became visible. Also
- [Activists’ Background (1972)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/womens-center/12-activists-background-1973/) - The Winds of Freedom? Women got opportunities to qualify for university. And there were jobs everywhere! It encouraged us to go public and take the initiative.
- [Why So Furious?](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-experience/why-so-angry-1970/) - My coming-out inspires fear, fury and research In an initial overview for the present project, I described my coming-out as a lesbian in the summer of 1970 as quite harmless, at least at the film academy, where there were many gay men and a liberal climate prevailed. But having set out to decipher my notes
- [Women Against Violence (1974-76)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/womens-center/women-against-violence-1974-76/) - Self-defense/ Concept of an autonomous women’s shelter/ Tribunals. We learn to stand by any woman in trouble, not to look away as we had done in the past.
- [Media Group (1973-75)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/womens-center/media-group-1973-75/) - Media women organize against witch-hunt on lesbians, establish Groups in broadcasting stations and in conclusion the Journalistinnenbund.
- [Abortion / Gynecology (1973-75)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/womens-center/abortion-gynecology-1973-75/) - Women from all over Germany seek help in Berlin. Civil disobedience: An abortion on television propagating Vacuum Aspiration. Feminists modernize gynecology.
- [Prison Group (1973)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/womens-center/prison-group-1973/) - Feminist Hunger strike supports the strike at the Women’s Prison. Understanding why they killed, we shall engage against rape, sexual abuse, domestic violence.
- [Starting the Berlin Women’s Center (1972)](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/womens-center/berlin-womens-center-1972/) - Instead of a position paper we learn together. Our principles: Immediacy, taking ourselves seriously, autonomy. After one year 24 groups are working.
- [Leftist Experience](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-experience/)
- [Feminism at Work](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/feminism-at-work/)
- [Lesbian Life](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/lesbian-life/)
- [Leftist Debates](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-debates/)
- [Women's Center](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/womens-center/)
- [Lesbians Organize](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/lesbians-organize/)
- [1974 Across the Berlin Wall](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-debates/1974-across-the-berlin-wall/) - Fair Sex and Equal Rights in the GDR: In the GDR 81,5% of the women were working - with additional 38 hours housework a week.
- [Contact](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/contact/) - Contact red@feministberlin1968ff.de
- [1970-80 Socialist Women’s League](https://feministberlin1968ff.de/leftist-debates/1970-80-socialist-womens-league-2/) - socialist women search for the “levers” to mobilize the female “masses”. Women's needs are feared to be reformist, sexuality only used as a hook.

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