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'''{{Lang|de|konkret}}''' has been the name of two German magazines.
{{Lang|de|konkret}} was originally the name of a magazine established by [[Klaus Rainer Röhl]] 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 [[Ulrike Meinhof]] 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 {{Lang|de|konkret}} magazine and part of the German left.  It is described as [[far left|leftist extremist]] by the [[Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz|Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution]]{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} and also as [[Anti-Germans (political current)|Anti-German]] by the State Office for Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia.<ref>[http://www.im.nrw.de/sch/414.htm North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of the Interior - "Antideutsch"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118040501/http://www.im.nrw.de/sch/414.htm |date=18 January 2010 }}</ref>
== Klaus Rainer Röhl's ''konkret'' ==
=== ''Studentenkurier'' ===
In 1955, [[Klaus Rainer Röhl]] started the monthly ''[[Studentenkurier]]'' ("Student Messenger"), which was published until 1957. Due to the contributions of many authors as {{ill|Werner Riegel|de}}, [[Peter Rühmkorf]], [[Arno Schmidt]], [[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 [[East German]] government.<ref>Bettina Röhl, [http://www.dw.com/en/my-mother-the-terrorist/a-1933629 "My Mother, the Terrorist,"] Deutsche Welle (14 March 2006)</ref> 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 [[German student movement]] of the 1960s, it appeared biweekly and sometimes even weekly.
Articles in ''konkret'' openly advocated sex with minors.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Jan |last1=Fleischhauer |first2=Wiebke|last2=Hollersen|title=The Sexual Revolution and Children: How the Left Took Things Too Far|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-sexual-revolution-and-children-how-the-left-took-things-too-far-a-702679.html|newspaper=Spiegel Online International|quote=The articles in Konkret that openly advocated sex with minors are at least as disturbing as the accusations of Röhl's daughters Anja and Bettina that he molested them, which Röhl denies.}}</ref>
One of the best known journalists on the magazine was [[Ulrike Meinhof]], the editor-in-chief from 1960.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Jan |last1=Fleischhauer|first2=Stefan|last2=Aust|title=Baader-Meinhof - The Inside Story of the RAF|quote=In January 1960, Ulrike Meinhof became editor-in-chief of konkret.}}</ref>  She ended her work for ''konkret'' early in 1969 shortly before she joined the [[Red Army Faction]]. On 7 May 1969, the house of ''Konkret'' publisher [[Klaus Rainer Röhl]] 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 [[Hamburg]].
''Konkret'' presents itself{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} 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]], [[Wolf Biermann]], [[Heinrich Böll]], [[Daniel Cohn-Bendit]], [[Jutta Ditfurth]], [[Rudi Dutschke]], [[Hans Magnus Enzensberger]], [[Jürgen Elsässer]], [[Erich Fried]], [[Robert Gernhardt]], [[André Gorz]], [[Günter Grass]], [[Sebastian Haffner]], [[Robert Kurz (philosopher)|Robert Kurz]], [[Oskar Negt]], [[Alice Schwarzer]], [[Klaus Theweleit]], [[Sahra Wagenknecht]], [[Günter Wallraff]].{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://konkret-magazin.de/ Konkret website]
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