die freie straße

DESCRIPTION
- Erste Folge der Vorarbeit (1915) - N° 10 (1918).
- Edited by Franz Jung, Georg Schrimpf, Richard Oehring, Otto Groß, Raoul Hausmann and Johannes Baader. Published by Verlag Freie Strasse, Berlin.
- All issues:
  1. Erste Folge der Vorarbeit 'Was suchst du Ruhe, da du zur Unruhe geboren bist' / hrsg. von Franz Jung (1915)
  2. Zweite Folge der Vorarbeit 'An Dich - Erde!' / hrsg. von Georg Schrimpf (1915)
  3. Dritte Folge der Vorarbeit 'Dem Anderen in Dir' / hrsg. von Richard Oehring (1916)
  4. Vierte Folge der Vorarbeit: 'Um Weisheit und Leben' / hrsg. von Otto Gross und Franz Jung (1916)
  5. Fünfte Folge der Vorarbeit 'Verantwortung - zu fremdem Zwang' / hrsg. von Richard Oehring (1916)
  6. Sechste Folge der Vorarbeit 'Die Technik des Glücks' / hrsg. von Franz Jung (1917)
  7. [Siebte Folge der Vorarbeit] Missing
  8. [Achte Folge der Vorarbeit] Club Dada
  9. N° 9 'Gegen den Besitz!' / hrsg. von Raoul Hausmann and Johannes Baader (November 1918)
  10. N° 10 'Präsident Baader' / hrsg. von Johannes Baader (December 1918).
- Edition 120-200.
- An extensive bibliographic description in Datenbank des deutschsprachigen Anarchismus - DadA.

CONTRIBUTORS
Franz Jung, Oskar Graf, Richard Oehring, Georg Schrimpf, Cläre Otto, Carl Ladwig, Otto Groß, Franz Jung, Max Herrmann, Raoul Hausmann [»], Johannes Baader [»], Karl Radek.
Illustrations by Georg Schrimpf, Elsa Schiemann, Johannes Baader.

FACSIMILES/REPRINTS
online
- Digital Dada Library, International Dada Archive: no. 9.
- Dada Documents Archive: n° 10 'Präsident Baader' (December 1918)
  Page 1 * Page 2 * Page 3 * Page 4
  [International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam - ZF 51349].
- German Literary Expressionism Online. Journals, Yearbooks, Collections, Anthologies. Edited by Paul Raabe (W. de Gruyter : Berlin, New York 2008). Consult the complete list of publications [pdf].
printed
- Freie Strasse. Erste bis Sechste Folge der Vorarbeit. 1915-1917, reprinted by Kraus Reprint (Nendeln/Liechtenstein 1978).

SECONDARY LITERATURE
Hubert van den Berg
'Psychoanalyse und Dada in Berlin. Otto Gross, die Freie Strasse und die dadaistische Programmatik Franz Jungs, Raoul Hausmanns und Richard Huelsenbecks', in F. Lartillot (ed.), Dada Berlin. Une Révolution culturelle? (Editions du Temps : Nantes 2005) 61-106.
Raimund Dehmlow
'Gefährten: Otto Gross und Franz Jung'. Originally published as postface for Otto Gross: Von geschlechtlicher Not zur sozialen Katastrophe (Edition Nautilus : Hamburg 2000).

Franz Jung and Die Freie Straße
Franz Jung (1888-1963) was involved in Berlin Dada from 1916 to 1919, mostly through his journal Die Freie Strasse. He was one of those who signed the 'Dadaistisches Manifest' and 'Dadaisten gegen Weimar' and was one of the publishers of Club Dada . Like other anarchists, left-radicals and nihilists, Jung was attracted to Dada's rejection of traditional art and its love of provocation. Jung's involvement in the movement was important since he helped influence the increasingly political nature of Dada in Berlin. George Grosz who was also a member noted that, in Berlin, Dada became much more political than in Zurich: although the aesthetic side was retained, this became more and more displaced by a kind of anarchistic-nihilistic politics whose main spokesman was Jung [...] Like Grosz, Erwin Piscator also stresses the political nature of Berlin Dada, the conviction that art was only valuable if it were a tool in the class struggle.
Raoul Hausmann , who was particularly influenced by Gross and Jung, stresses that Dada was a complete break with the past, a revolt against all customs, beliefs and privileges. He notes the critical role played by Die Freie Strasse in stimulating Berlin Dada and in propagating the revolutionary psychoanalysis of Otto Gross which saw in the patriarchal society of the time the root of all illness. Die Freie Strasse became "eine Schule der Selbstbefreiung aus der blirgerlichen Verfremdung der Person und deren Existenz in der Gemeinschaft" [Raoul Hausmann, Am Anfang war Dada (Giessen 1980) 12].
[...] Die Freie Strasse, several of whose contributors such as Jung, Otto Gross, Oskar Maria Graf and Georg Schrimpf had been members of the Tat Gruppe [Erich Mühsam], propagated the complete freedom of the individual and the transformation of the relationship between men and women. It argued for a new ethic, based on Otto Gross' theories, an ethic that emphasized matriarchy and community and rejected patriarchy. In a later letter to Cläre Jung, however, Jung belittles Die Freie Strasse, saying that it had nothing to do with Dada: it was merely a series of pamphlets written from the point of view of an anarchistic, sentimental romanticism of a Gustav Landauer. Jung writes her that he was involved in Berlin Dada only at the outset, in Die Neue Jugend [Letter to Cläre Jung, January 31, 1959, in Schriften und Briefe (Salzhausen 1981) 76].
TEXT CREDITS
Jennifer E. Michaels, Franz Jung. Expressionist, Dadaist, Revolutionary and Outsider. American University Studies, Series I, 70 (Peter Lang : New York etc. 1989) 35-36.
IMAGE CREDITS
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