"BREAK THE POWER OF THE MANIPULATORS" "HELKE SANDER, SKIP NORMAN, HARUN FAROCKI, ULI KNAUDT AND OTHERS FROM THE ANTl-AUTHORITARIAN CAMP" "INDUSTRY AND IDEOLOGY ALLIED IN THE PRESS" "AS SHOWN THROUGH THE CASE OF AXEL SPRINGER" "Out of economic power comes political power." "THESE PUBLICATIONS ARE THE OFFSPRING OF AXEL SPRINGER..." "Why do you read "Die Welt," Mr. President?" ""Die Welt" is clear and concise, it is non-partisan, and it supplies me with detailed information about politics and business." "Leading figures in politics and business read Axel Springer's "Die Welt"" "because it informs them about politics and business, and helps them obtain an overall picture." ""German industry must invest in Berlin." "For West German businessmen, investment in Berlin is vital for whoever helps Berlin helps himself."" "Is everyone coming?" "No more than half." "We have to make the choices clear to the city government." "We want to be able to trust its politics." "We want stability." "We don't want any special deals with the East." "West German businessmen on their way to West Berlin." "They are participating in a committee aimed at helping the stagnating economy." ""Berlin's mayor Schütz expressed his thanks, pledging that government and business will march together,"" "wrote "Die Welt" the next day." ""Look to Berlin," they used to say." "Berlin was an example for all of West Germany." "In Berlin, we fought the Communists back." "The Americans spoke a language that the Communists understood." "Going with the Social Democrats was the right thing to do." "We showed them that the economy would suffer without us." "And if the economy suffers then the Social Democrats lose out too." "There hasn't been a major strike in Berlin since 1957." "And why is that?" "Because we showed the unions that we need to unite in hard times." "And that when it comes down to it, there is no more left and right, worker and boss, there are only Germans." "Then we're all in the same boat." "I want nothing to do with the East German authorities." "You never know how they'll react." "They'll let us through." "It's easy for businessmen to cross the zone." "They appreciate us." "The trip through the GDR is almost enjoyable." "Nowadays the trouble starts in Berlin." ""The committee proves that Berlin has good friends." "Schütz wants the association to meet more often,"" "wrote "Die Welt" the next day." "The troublemakers are a small minority." ""Outside the conference, around 40 youths protested the meeting with leaflets and protest chants."" "The radicals shouldn't be taken lightly." "Dutschke himself said they can mobilize 6,000." "The question is:" "What can 6,000 do?" "My question is:" "How to prevent 6,000 from mobilizing at all." "Berlin's economic situation is old hat." "The city's been cut off for 23 years, its population is over-aged and underpaid." "Now the students want to mobilze the workers." "But city government and unions agree you can't fight a free market economy." "The Berlin Senate needs to know:" "The Berlin preferences remain." "No solidarity between students and workers." "Otherwise, investment is unthinkable." "No investment, unless it's psychologically useful." "The press must stop equating Berlin and Dutschke." "Propaganda just helps them." "Instead, the papers should describe the economy's structural crisis, which must be tackled jointly." "They must show that there are only two sides." "Either for a free Berlin, or for a goatee." "Social experiments endanger the recovery of the Berliner economy." "Rabble-rousers must be eliminated." "Berlin must once again be an example for West Germany." "From economic power comes political power." "This means:" "Manipulation of the disempowered." "Since 1952, over 10 million citizens read "Bild" each morning." "The makeup is sent from Hamburg to the paper's seven print centers." "The corporation's concentration enables modern rationalization." "The corporation's wealth enables an excellent organization." "In most West German cities, towns and villages," ""Bild" is the only paper people can read on their way to work." "Each day, "Bild" turns the world into a monstrous local section." "Why do you read "Bild," Mr. Mueller?" ""Bild" is entertaining, exciting, true to life, experienced, German and modern." "INVESTMENTS ARE PULLED OUT OF WEST BERLIN" "BILD APPEALS FOR POPULAR SOLID ARITY" "That means:" "Cover-up of the crisis." "For 300,000, wouldn't you set your car on fire too?" "But you wouldn't get caught." "Man, 300,000 clams." "Wow!" "Hey, listen..." ""Ready to Sacrifice for Berlin." "If Berlin is ruined, so is West Germany." "Businessmen in West Germany and Berlin must make sacrifices." "Who?" " Businessmen." "Oh, come on." "They do what they want anyway." "Where'll you be in four weeks?" " What's it got to do with me?" "Come on, tell me." "In Frankfurt, in the new branch office, where else?" "And what'll you do there?" "What?" " What do you think," "I'll be working, just like I am here, you idiot!" "What about him?" "What business is it of mine?" "Is it my fault they fired him?" "Stay here." "We want to get to the bottom of this." "STUDENTS START TO UNDERSTAND THEIR SITUATION" "BILD CALLS THEM "FOOLS AND SUBVERSIVES."" "AND CALLS FOR THE STRONGMAN." "That means:" "Creating the internal enemy." "That's it!" "Pick it up!" "I didn't do it on purpose." " I saw it!" "Pick it up or leave." "What is this nonsense?" " Pick it up." "It's pointless." "They can litter, but work is out of the question." "They drink away our taxes." "Hey, Heini, hand that over to me." "MASKED MEN ROB DEPARTMENT STORE" "Look..." "Look!" "Forget those bums." "It's none of our business." "What?" "None of our business?" "It sure is my business!" "Hey..." "Let me tell you something." "I won't put up with those hippy fools acting like that." "And me?" "They fired me." "And why?" "Because companies are relocating to West Germany." "And why are they relocating?" "It's right here, in black and white." ""Due to... due to the bad psychological atmosphere."" "Is that my fault?" "Or yours?" "What I mean is that their constant demonstrations put companies at risk." "They're leaving because it's too uncertain here." "And those guys want to govern some day." ""If the egg stinks, throw it out."" "That guy would have made short work of them." ""THE EMPEROR'S FADED GLORY"" "You'll pay my cleaning bill!" "What can I do if he pushed me?" " Now hold on!" "Are you saying I pushed you?" "WORKERS RESIST SALARY CUTS." "BILD FOSTERS INDUSTRIAL NATIONALISM." "That means:" "Prevention of emancipation." "Can't you get decent razorblades?" "It's not my fault." "If you'd rent out the room again, we wouldn't be pinching every penny." "The last guy was nice, the one studying to be a teacher." "I won't have another long-haired ape in my house." "I gave you ten marks only yesterday." " It wasn't enough!" "You just can't manage money." "Here..." "You could learn a lesson." "There." ""Don't ask me first thing in the morning for more housekeeping money because everything's so expensive." "Ask me at night over a glass of wine."" "Who's never home nights, you or me?" "Don't start with that again." "I put in my nine hours, I'll spend my nights as I please." "I won't let you tell me what to do!" " What about me?" "I get to do all your housework, and deal with the kids." "And at night I just sit around." " When I'm home we both do." "Maybe you'd prefer talking about whether there'll be a strike at work?" "You only care about having enough money in the bank." "When I do have anything to say, you always know better." "I don't care who it is, as long as we rent to somebody." "Now listen here..." "I won't hear another word about those damned radicals!" "They won't set foot in here again!" "I won't support their scheming by letting them live here!" "Don't wait up for me tonight." "I'll be coming home late." "I told you to wear slippers!" "MARRIAGE GAMES" "That means:" "Awakening of resistance." "STUDENTS BECOME AWARE." "BILD TALKS OF "RUDI THE RED."" "Let's look at it in the context of "Cover-up of the Crisis."" "How, by manipulation, the crisis, meaning the economic stagnation, is covered up." "And when we say 'cover-up,' we have to do away with all the centers of manipulation such as Springer  Co., and the city's political leadership." "That's part of it." "Here we need to take up the problem of underdevelopment, of stagnation, which was our first topic, so that the seventh and last topic is:" "The solution to the stagnation in Berlin." "Rudi's right, the function of the tribunal is to polarize the public." "But not in order to dismiss any publicity we could get by saying, "We know what we want anyway."" "Instead, we should engage the public, and use their concepts in polemical contrast, as we did in the defense, to show them, "This has been going on in front of you for years." "And nothing is being done to stop it." "And it can be summed up in this concept, your own concept." "So finally you can say, Springer's not only dubious, he's unconstitutional, criminal, and what have you.'"" "Clearly the tribunal's job is not to be objective and independent." "We all know that." "And if you don't call it a tribunal, find a new name." "Brecht said, if it's not theater, call it 'thaeter.'" "I find the definition of terms quite bureaucratic, but that won't keep it from always coming up." "But what is meant by mass activism?" "Ladies and gentlemen..." "What the Socialist Student Council has done in this city, what it plans to do, and what it already viciously does..." "I merely have to remind you of the two quotes I just read out." "...is not just rebellion, it is deliberate rioting!" "Its members have, in the past, violated the constitutional order, and they admit they'll continue to do so." "The time has therefore come, we feel, to counter this antidemocratic organization with all constitutional means, through the resolution we're proposing." ""The oppositional reveals a paradox between constitution and constitutional reality." "It no longer merely analyzes the existing paradoxes, it attacks the unconstitutional situation, while invoking the principles of the constitution." "It takes up the need for a reform of the system, and contrasts its own politically-based understanding with the political reality of the constitution, the so-called constitutional reality." "Point four:" "The tribunal is not aimed at the authorities, whose interpretation of the constitution it opposes, but aims to fight those authorities." "So the anti-Springer campaign constitutes the attempt to counter the cover-up of our situation." "We learned the lesson by learning about Vietnam at the university, whereas the people we'd like to reach didn't learn about Vietnam." "But now they can learn the lesson through Berlin's economic crisis." "Even when a paper like that reports on our situation, it should be clear that the demonstration is in Berlin." "And that, in Berlin, there is also a linkage to Vietnam." "Right." " And perhaps that the tendency towards becoming a very different kind of Vietnam." "That's the goal, eventually." "Of course not right away." "But the transition, the understanding of Vietnam, and now that of West Berlin and the situation in West Berlin, is facilitated by us." "We learn too." "It's not as if the students who've made up their minds on Vietnam automatically agree on Berlin." "On the contrary." "There is a learning process among the students that should be linked to that of certain non-student groups." "The students are experienced with Vietnam, but not with Berlin." "Our position is that certain consequences are needed." "These must be:" "No demonstrations by radicals in the city." "For now, this must cease, once and for all." "It's important that in the cover-up of the crisis, and in the portrayal of racism in the Springer press, we show that what stands between us and the rest of the population is simple manipulation." "And so we see it as the Senate's duty to finally take the steps to ensure that this organization is banned in Berlin." "STUDENT TRANSFORMATION." "BILD TALKS OF RADIC ALS AND "RUDI THE RED."" "That means:" "Defamation of the resistance." "Two things are important in this film." "Namely:" "How can my work aid the movement?" "And what kind of aesthetics fit our political viewpoint?" "Which images don't reinforce the dominant ideology?" "Like 'Springer and Humphrey.'" ""The spread of social criticism changes its quality." "Two percent read literature, over 50 percent watch TV every day." "Television is not allowed to attain a critical quality." "It may not be critical of society, because the ruling class can't take criticism from 50 percent of the population." "The aesthetics of television have developed to the point where the news need not be censored, and the situation need not be criticized."" ""I wouldn't trade art for politics, but bring the two together."" ""The dominance of images is omnipotent." "This image says:" "'Nothing can go wrong, as long as such a powerful ambassador of the free world meets a fellow democrat here in Berlin.'" "This is how such images are used on TV, in film and in the news."" ""If reporting is to communicate the essence of its subject, it must include the reporter's viewpoint."" ""The participation with the subject means the end of the ideology of objective reporting."" ""There's a statement by El Lissitzky:" "'In Socialism, all activities will be free of the division of labor, so every activity is art'."" ""I want to portray Springer, but not in the role he'd like to play, in which he's always shown, but in his ruling function."" "We have to cause role and function to clash." ""Springer must be forced to choose between role and function." "We must make him choose." "We must determine the tactics."" ""That's why, if our socialist politics, are to be successful, they may not fall short of the virtuosity of art, just as art may not fall short of the efficiency of politics."" ""Revolutionary critique criticizes society by changing it."" ""When planning the operation at the press ball," "I looked forward to the notion of wearing the costume of society."" ""Before the camera is replaced by the gun, it fulfills a function that is critical and helps carry out operations."" ""Hundreds of policemen were there to protect high society from protestors."" ""Before a director uses a gun, he must stage the events that prepare society's collapse."" ""I couldn't wait for the faces behind the suits and gowns to be exposed."" "There is the difference between the poetically written leaflet, and the stone." ""The leaflet can be masterfully written, but it contains no real power." "But it can explain the stone." "Thus art and politics must work together."" "POLITICS ARE MADE WITH MONEY" "Sorry, can I stand there to record this?" "MONEY IS MADE WITH POLITICS" "Hey you bourgeois square, want a tug?" "Your time will come as well." "Russian station?" " What?" "Is it for a Russian station?" " Of course." "We're getting 20 east marks for this." "Good pay, isn't it?" "We get 20 marks from the East for doing this..." "You won't get through." " Why, thanks!" "There's another one." " Me too." "Another one." " And another one." "The press bureaucrats only had tickets for a three-man team." "So I stood outside and observed the scene." "The scene consisted of several police units." "A police van stopped and a policeman yelled," ""Mr. Dutschke, stop right there."" "Later, when I asked him what he'd do if I really were Dutschke, he said, "We'd keep you locked up all night."" "This tape recorder was only a mock-up, from which I pulled out the banner to give to Helke." "Axel Springer, over whose head it hung, leaned over and asked," ""How much are you getting for this?"" ""20 marks," I said, "to be picked up in the East."" "It wasn't nice of me to be so mean to him, for his retainers became much more upset." "A horde of tuxedo-wearing goons besieged me." "One cut this cable, the other tried to take the tape recorder but didn't find the release." "It was my job to film the whole thing." "But I was hindered, by women holding fans in front of the camera, by men standing in front of the camera, and so on." "About two minutes later, when people had figured out what was happening, three men approached me." "Each one claimed to be the mayor, and said to leave the room at once." "I started to walk, slowly, because the camera is heavy, and they said to go faster." "And pushed me along." "I said that was unnecessary, that I could walk on my own." "That I'd learned to walk as a child." "Then one of these mayors got upset and said," ""What you do at home is one thing, but we do things differently here."" "I think I was later told that the guy's name was Neubauer." "In any case, I started to..." "Or rather, I was forced, to walk faster, and right after that, they forcefully led me off." "They yanked the first banner out of my hands." "They took away my tickets and claimed I never had any." "They took this banner from me too." "AXEL'S FINAL B ALL" "A mayor asked me why I wasn't demonstrating in Moscow." "Then three undercover policemen in tuxedos led me away." "Then we were in custody for five hours, proving beyond a doubt that the relation of role and function can only be solved through revolution." "STUDENTS AND OTHERS BECOME ACTIVE." "BILD STIRS UP A WITCH HUNT." "That means:" "Organization of resistance." "The analysis of the Springer group is made more difficult, proving Springer's complicity with the state, which the analysis was to show." "You are being watched." "Letters are being opened." "Springer exercises emergency powers even before they are implemented." "Springer exercises emergency powers even before they are implemented." "They are being eavesdropped upon." "Just look at these guys..." "STRUCTURE OF THE SPRINGER PRESS" "When Berlin's mayor Klaus Schütz was in America to obtain American capital for West Berlin," "Springer was asked what he thought of the mission." "Springer said, "Mr. Schütz hasn't reported back yet. "" "After five months of analysis, we've found out that our Springer campaign won't mobilize the workers." "It's not that readers like "Bild."" "They know they're being lied to." "The problem is not their ignorance, but their powerlessness." "This powerlessness isn't caused primarily by "Bild,"" "but by the workers' place in the production process." "The Springer campaign won't work without a campaign against oppression at the workplace." "Now that our Easter event has broken the consensus of powerlessness, we can start to enlighten the masses about their interests." "NOBOD Y'S TALKING ABOUT THE WHITE CIRCLE" "NOT SCHÜTZ, NOT BRANDT NOT B.Z., BILD, ARD, OR SFB..." "BUT WE ARE." "STIRS UP A WITCH HUNT." "THREE SHOTS ON RUDI" "That means:" "Total deployment of power." "Vote on it!" "Vote on it!" "Vote on it!" "Springer manipulated." "Bachmann understood the message." "Rudi felt the message." "The students silence Springer." "Springer is a murderer!" "Springer is a murderer!" "This is the police..." "Clear the entry to the publishing house." "Please be kind enough to clear the area." "Push the high-rise into the East!" "Push the high-rise into the East!" "Springer out of West Berlin!" "Springer out  of West Berlin!" "Springer out of West Berlin..." "Your daily "Bild"" "WOMEN, WORKERS, PUPILS AND STUDENTS" "CREATE ANTl-AUTHORITARIAN STRUCTURES." "That means:" "The toppling of the social system." "Students are occupying the university." "The bureaucracy oppresses students through exams, disciplinary measures, insufficient scholarships, fear and pressure." "Students want to abolish the oppression  abolish the twisted notion of academia." "They want to expose the university as a class-based institution." "The students mistrust film and TV." "The team explains its film." "We're working on a Springer film." "And recent events, especially the students' self-organization, showed us that this can be a model for the goals of the anti-authoritarian camp." "We don't want to be seen as press, but as part of the counter-publicity." "We filmmakers have been documenting the students' fight against the Springer manipulation machine." "But our film is meant not only to document, but also to agitate." "We no longer pretend there's such a thing as objective reporting." "The representation of our movement is reserved for its participants." "Participation changed us." "This change is reflected in our specific mode of work." "For our films to change, the means of production must change." "Our film on Springer explores new communication structures, but also new means of production." "We can only win the fight against Springer if we change how we work." "We want the means of production." "Pupils and teachers fight for anti-authoritarian schools, workers and apprentices fight for a say in the means of production, women for liberation from economic servitude, from second-rate life and the separation of work and productivity." "Although we may not participate directly, our cameras constitute activism too, only on a technical and chemical level." "PRINT SHOP" "THE RED FLAG SIGNIFIES THE WILL TO ACT ON INJUSTICE." "RID BONN OF THE EMERGENC Y." "RADIO AND TELEVISION" "EMERGENC Y IS GREY, SOCIALISM COLORFUL." "The Springer campaign taught students to work for their utopia." "A new society needs more than political and economic revolution." "Revolution also means transforming life in people's houses." "The way the ruling class built our houses forces residents into isolation, internalizing their class situation." "The division of labor continues in a fragmented living situation." "Society's transformation starts with the end of the paradox of work = coercion, leisure = free will." "The transformation of Springer's own capital into collective capital, the transformation of his papers from deceptive to enlightened instruments, even if it were realistic, would keep society's ruling structures intact." "The Springer campaign taught us that structural transformation cannot replace grass-roots change, meaning the change in our own immediate lives." "Turning segmented houses into places of communication remains a utopia." "A reality are the pre-schools we've already established, which shift the balance of authority to the children's benefit." "While Springer's press fuels the ignorance of the masses, this ignorance, we now know, isn't just a product of Springer, but a direct result of the plight of the masses, driven by authoritarian upbringing at home," "at school, and through repression in the workplace." "The question is whether people, as they inevitably accept repression, can or want to be enlightened." "Perhaps all our energy and effort should be invested in a generation that can still be made to understand the manipulations of our society, that can understand that Springer is no evil power, willfully fostering mass ignorance, but a necessary part of capitalist society." "The problem of manipulation will not disappear if Springer sells a few newspapers to other publishers." "The problem will only disappear when a patronizing and de-humanizing system is destroyed, which at home, in schools, and at the workplace, continues to enjoy ideal conditions." "That is where we will continue our work from the Springer campaign, in order to do away with the Springer phenomenon." "The Springer campaign is dead." "The system must now be dried-up from the ground up." "We'll change the old conditions" "And spurn the dust to win the prize" "Then come comrades rally" "And the last fight let us face" "The Internationale" "Unites the human race" "Then come comrades rally" "And the last fight let us face" "The Internationale" "Unites the human race"