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7/17/1968 - Brave New World -- Berlin and Munich by Barbara W. Bright

NOT FOR PUBLICATION INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS BWB I Im Rosental BraveNewWorld BerlinaMMunich SBonn West Germany July Mr Richard H Nolte Institute Current World Affairs Madison Avenue New York N Y lOO17 Dear Mr Nolte Philosophers sociologists politicians economists everyone A Name several without offered their explanations phenonomen youth rampant Students romanticized haloed harbingers democratic humanism primarily French American writers vilified anarchists enemies democracy scathingly dismissed political idiots Leni would temporarily useful latter stages Communist revolution In West Germany public sympathy overwhelmingly against students In nation where beyond student horror years hunger rebuilding where average German citizen seems indeed satisfied luster experiments policies nineteen years Christian Democratic chancellor student outbursts nasty irritant Like swarms gnats elegant garden party attack dressed burghers impudent questions about economic miracle which Germans proud Is prosperity worth Aren universities turning thlnking technicians Aren being manipulated capitalistic society Isn German Vietnam The West German students seething about university reform political mandate student government organizations since neither public politicians attention When student feeling response though argue years consider measures against attitude commented Munich University student govern president They start demonstrations Protests against Vietnam became rallying point intellectuals students early February students rounded luminaries novelists Gunter Grass Heinrlch Boell composer Hans Werner Henz Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch playwright Peter weiss support their Vietnam Congress Berlin event attracted students nations among DanieI Cohn Bendit But West German revolution which definitely sparked French student revolution throughDsuuy Red impetus student uprisings virtually every European nation dated shooting West Berlin policeman Free University student Benno Ohnesorg June demonstration Socialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund League Socialist German Students aginst thshah With Ohnesorg martyred Establishment students throughout Federal Republic Berlin radicals streets protesting university reform Vietnam changed society And Germany began Ru 0dnung Some their pursue A weeks before SDS ideologue Rudi Dutschke thrown bicycle three times chest Hitler housepainter Josef Bachmann about twenty Berliners followed young looked Dutschke through streets Berlin planning In first months Dutschke moved American young Che Hosea apartment apartment times avoid smoke bombs stones through apartment windows After Dutchke students turned strong twenty cities delivery Axel Springer newspapers plunder newspaper offices Munich Berlin Frankfurt Hamburg independent showed eighty percent Germ population AGAINST German students demonstrations curiously percentage French population FOR Sorbonne students As Friedrich Mager Ulrich Spinnarke wrote their primer German student revolution Wa__s W Di__e Stude What Do Students Want The majority current opinions about student protests demonstrations summer sentences Don seriously young people Students should study demonstrate Anyone supported father Father State should mouth Onl university misfits streets Those involved small minority political notorious rowdies The students contend their violence against things Justified attacks press Axel Springer It Springer Bild newspaper after German language cross between New YorkDa New___sandtheNationalInquirerthatisreadby Germans daily which labeled Berlin students tgammler political beatniks ngbehaar Affen_____ haired Springer Berlin newspapers Morgenpost Berliner Zeitung discovered Rudl Dutschke publiczing sociology student Fuehrer student revolutionaries before students themselves given their allegiance BWB I The Springer press chose Dutschke charisma spell binder students West German revolution seems since Bachmann bullets Rudi Berlin hospital Swiss sanatorium recover brain injury In Berlin there still conflicting rumors about Rudi condition Even closest SDS friends allowed visit Berlin hospital Swiss sanatorium destination unknown The SDS leadership national offices Frankfurt Berlin offices Kurfrstendamm already discussing Rudi personality attempted assassination removed limelight But without direction SDS which student revolution general involved internal Quo Vadis young revoluzzer Since Dutschke shooting aftermath Easter riots SDS leaders expended their energies fighting emergency meager success despite gathering students communists unionists Bonn orderly Star March theaters intermission discussions student tirades virtual halting university education three May before Parliament passed measures Parliament singular concern student demonstrations against mergency merely reinforced SDS theory opposition within parliamentary system futile xercise A democracy absorb changed opposing factions different ideas Hannes Heer lanky bespectacled SDS University Bonn There should transformation functioning democ It possible movements strengths channeled toward establishment goals doesn remain outside parliamentary system until For being students decided their house order During weeks ended summer semester emphasis turned again Hochschulreform university reform Kritische Universitten formed Berlin Mnster B 0J6hu Frahkfurt Hamburg Munich This newsletter outline major problems German university critical university working groups Munich Berlin describe Berlin KU kinder garten where SDS students trying youngst authoritarian atmosphere preparing different version present Brave New World XXXXXXXXXXXX The Ludwig Maximill anUniversity Munich where O00 students enrolled Germans vacation university comparable University Miami University Denver United States It attracts goodly number students Bavarian Alps during winter semester nearby lakes during summer It attracts professors years short retirement settle leisurely Lehrstuhl profes sorial chair graduate students assistants BWB I There hundred professors Ordinarien seven faculties Munich university theology gvernment which includes sociology economics political science curiously forestry medicine veterinary science philosophy including history psychology education languages history journalism natural sciences encompassing mathematics physics astronomy chemistry pharmacology botany geography Engineering practical sciences technical college taught atthe Munich Tech nischeHochshule which university status which about students enrolled Culture therefore education falls under state control Federal Republic problem university reform handled variously eleven individual states The Federal Science Ministry nation states together spent almost billion education figures complete The average German citizen mistakenly believes taxes federal state scholarship programs support majority German students Actually percent student population scholarship federal state ministries together spend about million scholarship funds The remaining three fourths students supported their parents about eight percent themselves through college At meeting Munich Verband Deutscher Studentenschaften association which German students belong proposed university students given monthly lving allowance government Joachim Hauschild Munich University journalism student insists students Federal Republic given monthly amounts million government already Although state controls pursestrings German universities autonomous operate hierarchical system which professors completely Administration handled rector Seine Magnifizenz elected Dekanat composed 6rdariat elected faculty The university isciplinary court insist students tried mitted versity property Theoretically every German passes Abitur examination Gymnasium eligible enter ersity But since costs state educate doctor physicist terms laboratory tools student majoring German ology numerus clausus invoked number potential physicians physiciss stiff entry examinations The number students majoring social sciences languages those subjects require books other tools risen accordingly Although median professor student ratio West Germany about O00 professors students often balance social science faculties One student there close Germanistics students Munich under professors UNESCO figures indicate fifteen years West Germany student population times figure still represents percent those could study Nearly hundred different proposals university reform being discussed Federal Republic summer virtually contain minimal reforms listed SDS paper Universities Democracy parity students professors assistants abolition university court student voice appointment professorships eventual repeal numerus clausus Z xmatrikulation latter limits numbe semesters student study certain subjects medicine administrative metings interested persons substitution lectures seminar sessions around thirty persons The university reformers cannot agree whether university should continue administered rector elected years president could ostensibly industrialist academic whether university should divided departments similar United States Institutes But power Ordinariat certainly trimmed SDS VDS proposals ssors would equal status number pro_lessors greatly increased Some reform proposals would available student counselors would suggest courses should pursued reach desired Free research nineteenth century explained Petra Staehle honors student Universi Munich eighth semester third university studied Freiburg England before coming Bavarian capital It probably worked there eighty people university That still operating under university structure typical German clash between ideal reality What research books people working paper subject sixth already books Schiller behind Egyptology section library For those students first where headed university works tutors advise But already complete knowledge field going hesitate questions ghastly float around They teaah learn learn The omnipotence 0rdinariat chilllng whlch their students further hinders democratic restructure German universities As Petra observes The professors their assistants The assistants professor graces because approve their admission university lecturer The professors alone responsible students examinations students rarely In large faculties there hundreds their exams until ofessor handle In Munich reported Der Spiegel cover story Germany professors entitled Gods Exp Idiots twenty medical degree candidates waited seven hours outside professor before allowed inside begin their examinations BWB I Students complain teaching material seminar jects moldy archaic worse irrevant Some special article Goethe period Petra But certain number seminar certificates before apply exams The seminars supposed cussion fifty eighty people seminar three students Most scared death professor You professor I understand please again There awful silence Herr Professor there questions To counteract miserable learning teaching procedures students their critical universities The modeled after American English universities counter universities German KU anyone familiar Germany would expect described ideological Munich students established their KU spring several months after Berlin movement began June after Ohnesorg shooting Directed Aktionsgemeinschaft Demokratische Universitt critical university basis group sympathetic students The ADU liberal opposition versity conservative controlled AStA Allgemeine Studenten Ausschuss legal student council The ADU seven goals critical university dismantling authoritarian structure evolving teaching motivations didactic methods studying implications society university university practice interdisciplinary criticism scientific methods Among Arbeitskreise working groups political Germanistics active Roll Pohle graduate studying sociology Munich AStA president until conservatives gained control winter Pohle interest Rec shilfe legal society supported critical university political justice working group We examining between theory practice uncovering roots German professors longer against disturbing peace evolved statutes against unlawful entry misused When students university police arrest unlawful entry university private domain rector But university constitution building belongs students rights That thing tring change I ADU publication about Easter riots Munich during which photographer student killed flying debris hundreds cases which Munich police mishandled students documented Yet Pohle claims students believe Rechtshilfe defend against Establishment The problem critical working groups teariug authority structure Pohle explained The students following instructions being instead doing their thinking BWB I The Germanistics working group Ulli Rees student English French working critical analysis Bild newspaper certain words undermines discussion perpetuates authoritarianism Another working group sociologists political scientists studying institutions instruments stabilization sexual tabus their function control agents Springer magazine adults Jasmin writings German sexologist Oswald Kolle dimensional society represented Mickey Mouse G W F Hegel Reiner Jendis SDS ADU member explains guidelines critical working groups ADU booklet The meetings politi education attempt overcome inbred consumer behavior students Every discussion organized leader needed begin discussion direct tinually death those informed parti cipants allowed speak possible directly answered avoid succession related comments wherever possible discussion continue every participant satis I attended meeting Munich Arbeitskreis university reform discussion among students assistants bogged democratically dreary detail What Munich students still discussing stifled yawns Berlin students already accomplished controversial experi Otto Suhr Institute political science institute Free University Some weeks students professors assistants OSI xperimental democratic organization Institute guaranteeing parity administrative meetings equal voice students determining curriculum research projects As Marianne Bock American student literature sociology FU gleefully It students Harvard could decide their money going OSI study programs appeal capitalist societies Last second FU Academic Senate friends Ordinariat rejected proposal claiming students voice determining university research The three professors headed Otto Suhr Institute resigned their Institute protest Infuriated group seventy students backed strike outside voted occupy university rector office retaliation following general assembly students professors assistants voted enforce statutes without senate approval semester That Berlin council decided investigate conditions under which institute pursue administrative course The political senate other words warned FU Academic Senate unless reform allowed within university reforms ordered without BWB As Harald Engensand director political senate dubiously The Academic Senate should allow experiment negative results question course whether OSI statutes should model university reform Frankly I think parity answer because students continu responsibility science professors Sigrid Fronius FU AStA president salute newly elected FU Rector Dr Ewald Harndt FU magazine Miss Fronius being taken Berlin police occupied Rector Office Sigrid Fronius attractive blonde SDS faithful AStA president Free University occupiers rector office would probably argue professorial concept responsibility science wrong Defending FU against charge leftist students turning breeding ground Marxist polemic Fraulein Fronius bristled The versity should society wrong right The university section society which chance better By political involvement rejecting tical function university being society order seriously another political function participant Although professors politicians complain FU place terror there teaching research Engensand Fraulein Fronius things differently point great strides forward students changed They respect professors enter discussions professors harder satisfy students On whole students voice university legal basis least professors would study seminars BWB I Although changed prevent extension Academic Senate couldntt extend Z wangsexma_triku lati0n beyond medicine The professors offering interesting topics lectures political science students heard lectures relation between armaments Mao Tse Tung theory imperialism The OSI statutes according Peter Tautfest Kritical Universitt specialist AStA partially outgrowth critical university The KU FU But KU undergrour guerilla tactics London university Our university itself partisan raisers rational basis We preach middle class aesthetic agree Social Democratic Communist slogan Knowledge Power The KU should offer concrete guidance practice practice oriented theory The KU holes university curriculum The medical faculty example offered psychology The KU working group psychosomatic medicine course would available university medical students become better doctors could research ulcers psychosomatics needed society Marianne Bock whose uncle protestant theologian Helmut Gollwitzer FU profs admired SDS students admitted Berlin critical university working groups problems their Munich colleagues Evolving methods hours hours about The psychological pedagogical roadblocks because authoritarian upbringing terrible Free University AStA Headquarters Exterior BWB I I0 Miss Bock suggests however German version critical university further along American model Berkeley In United States involved personal emancipation political emancipation Here there cussion sexuality relates methods control society The German KU hippieland ceramics emotional rebellio against society Sure reactionaries strong moment revolution seems something drugs Despite earnest efforts interest laborers others outside academic community KU Berlin students attendance thirty seminars group sessions which discuss topics ranging university reform West Berlin economics politics theory function development politics spasmodic The regulars those already interested ahurch But SDS students claim basis group among O00 FU students among Tchnis Univ ersijtt students Berlin Miss Bock students complain KU elite discuss level where others canlt follow A certain political attitude assumed admitted instance American imperialism create other Vietnam South America Europe Some dents agree theory But impetus KU society because exploiting people South America Establishing critical universities intellectual people imperialism However assesses students intellectual working diligently practicing authoritarianism preach nursery school kindergarten level The KU kindergarten fruit KU class authoritarian child rearing operating since separate sections West Berlin where interested parents FU students artists academic community rented shops standing empty painted walls bright opened collective playschool Free University AStA Headquarters Interloz BWB II It place where mothers round robin basis helps prevent children establishing overly strong their parents thereby building authoritarian principle It parents emancipated rearing their children atmosphere without authority should easier children Taking eight youngsters studiously missive atmosphere poses expected problems admitted Martin Beller political science student charge KU kindergarten AStA One filled bucket water started splashing floor The teacher forbid children diverted leader group another phonograph That group structure mother group structure change direction without saying something forbidden Everything allowed continued Bellerman experiment O Neill Summerhill theories avoid isolationism engenders Vera Schmidt studies Moscow kindergartens But there political rearing accept authority probably strongest political statement In spring various KU kindergartens incorporated FU kindergarten built university property operated AStA following KU authoritarian principles follow feeding demand schedule babies fetish cleanliness children develop their milieu Bellerman optimistically Instead forbidding allowing saying things black white children learn their decisions If child wants apples someone basket consequences other child allowed And encouraged arguments aware arguments rights others Kindergarten collectively owned first breaking capitalistic private ownership Bellerman explained Self achievement achievement orders above develop children initiative Recognition sexuality without sexual tabus punishment masturbation eliminate children fears The older children introduced outside world through social experience visiting farms police department natural science communications following authoritative program beyond awakening interest initiative children We children terms reality uninhibited BB I And children reared present society Just according Bellerman maybe change ciety The eight parents group strike front classroom their grammar school because wanted their teacher The school principal assigned another better teacher The KU kindergarten contends Bellerman viewed first toward building society As Rudi Dutschke explained German audience should society I think question incorrectly posed Let riots shall society I asked reassure integrate society And answer Yes integrate society quickly possible society learning society elitarian relationship between university society aside society whole turns studying creative mankind This certainly different rgeoisie elitarian groups society beginning their elite conditions introverted mechanisms elitarian attitude historic novelty Germany should cerely your__ Barbara Bright I Received New York July