has been the name of two German magazines. was originally the name of a magazine established by

Klaus Rainer Röhl Klaus Rainer Röhl (1 December 1928 – 30 November 2021) was a German journalist and author, best known as founder, owner, publisher and editor-in-chief of , the most influential magazine on the German political left from the 1960s to the early ...

in 1957, that was an influential magazine on the German political left in the 1960s. The magazine was dissolved in 1973 as a consequence of Röhl's rejection of the leftist terrorism in Germany (in which his former wife

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took active part). Since 1974, Hermann L. Gremliza has published a monthly magazine with the same name, self-described as a "magazine for politics and culture". The current magazine is significantly less influential than the original magazine and part of the German left. It is described as leftist extremist by the

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and also as Anti-German by the State Office for Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Klaus Rainer Röhl's ''konkret''

''Studentenkurier''

In 1955,

started the monthly '' Studentenkurier'' ("Student Messenger"), which was published until 1957. Due to the contributions of many authors as , Peter Rühmkorf,

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, Kurt Hiller, it became a very influential magazine among students.

''konkret''

On the basis of the success of the ''Studentenkurier'', ''Konkret'' was founded by Röhl in 1957. Until 1964, it had clandestine ideological and financial relations with the

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government. Innovative in its style, beautifully illustrated and printed on huge folio size heavy stock, its pages often ended up as posters on students' dorm walls and university campus fences. It had great influence on progressive intellectuals, both students and adults. In the high phase of the

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of the 1960s, it appeared biweekly and sometimes even weekly. Articles in ''konkret'' openly advocated sex with minors. One of the best known journalists on the magazine was

, the editor-in-chief from 1960. She ended her work for ''konkret'' early in 1969 shortly before she joined the

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. On 7 May 1969, the house of ''Konkret'' publisher

was stormed by activists including ''konkret'' staff under Meinhof's leadership, its windows and furnishing destroyed. After a long conflict over the political orientation of ''konkret'', particularly over the use of violence which Röhl strongly rejected, Röhl left the magazine in 1973, and shortly after, the magazine was dissolved.

Hermann L. Gremliza's ''konkret'' since 1974

In 1974, Hermann L. Gremliza founded a magazine called ''konkret''. He writes the introduction column of the magazine and its current location of publication is

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. ''Konkret'' presents itself as an anti-establishment leftist magazine, standing to left of Germany's established parties. Its maxim is "reading what others don't want to know" (''lesen, was andere nicht wissen wollen''). Notable contributors during the Gremliza era were: Norbert Blüm,

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, Heinrich Böll,

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, Jutta Ditfurth,

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, Jürgen Elsässer, Erich Fried, Robert Gernhardt,

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, Robert Kurz, Oskar Negt, Alice Schwarzer, Klaus Theweleit, Sahra Wagenknecht, Günter Wallraff.

References

External links

Konkret website
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