The events within the venue were also meticulously documented. When the spotlights were suddenly turned off, at the organisers’ request, to signal to the audience that the show was over, many of them panicked as they were suddenly plunged into darkness. Bei der Räumung eines Hauses im Berliner Stadtbezirk Friedrichshain hat es Zusammenstöße zwischen Polizei und autonomer Szene gegeben. Zeitschrift für musisches Leben in der Jugend, no V, October 1965, p. 240-243. The event also sparked administrative reform. In the Waldbühne, though, the police report testifies to the reverse effect: ‘in the glare of the spotlights, they [the audience] lost all inhibitions and felt as though they were the “photogenic focus” of all attention.’. See the Report of the Schutzpolizei command S1, Berlin, 16 September 1965, p. 3, Polizeihistorische. The discourse of criminalisation came to an end and the rock concert became recognised as a cultural event. 38 Agency Bulletin ‘Berliner Polizei fuer Verbot von Krawall-Veranstaltungen’, n.d., typescript, PhS 3.43.3. Eine transnationale Geschichte. Polizeihistorische Sammlung Berlin: PhS 3.43.3. Konsum und Politik in der westdeutschen Jugendkultur der 60er Jahre. Bremen city services and police force asked to consult the files of their colleagues in Berlin in order to examine the conditions for banning the concert of the ‘so-called beat-band, the Rolling Stones’. ), Popgeschichte. 2: Zeithistorische Fallstudien 1958-1988, edited by Bodo Mrozek, Alexa Geisthövel, and Jürgen Danyel. 51 ‘Rolling Stones machen keine Musik – nur Lärm’ (with the Associated Press agency), Berliner Morgenpost, January 26, 1966. 49 Telex sent to the Schutzpolizei command, September 22, 1965, PhS 3.43.3. As the Rolling Stones’ tour also went to other cities in West Germany, debates about the public order issues linked to concerts did not only occur in Berlin. The destruction of benches, barriers, and lighting systems increased in scale.23, 9The extent to which this destruction was deliberate remains up for debate. Die neuen Sitze der Waldbühne können einiges aushalten’, Berliner Morgenpost, February 17, 1967. edn (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1978), p. 816. “Rolling Stones” haben in Berlin viel vor’, Bild, September 2, 1965. As for the city of Munich, it considered applying a 14,000 Deutschmark tax on entertainment spectacles on the pretext that the shows by ‘young London singers’ were not about music but simply a form of popular entertainment. This solution was even more advisable because ‘youths were drawn to everything to do with technology and admired the audacity and skill of the motorbike riders’. Schutzpolizei S 1, n.d.., n.p., PhS 3.43.3. Finally, this uncontrollable concert was also debated in the Berlin parliament. 2The Rolling Stones’ tour was organised by the youth magazine Bravo, following the example of its French counterpart Salut les copains, which, two years earlier, had organised the concert in Paris at Place de la Nation in collaboration with the radio station Europe 1. Déviantes et délinquantes XIXe-XXIe siècles, Sujets déviants, sujets pervers. (German) [Fertility Idol of the Timoto Cuicas: a Contribution to the Knowledge of Early Venezuelan Medicine and Cultures] . Dr. Hans Irmer, Arzt Tel 04102 52610 Fax 04102 52678 E-Mail kreisstelle.stormarn@kvsh.de AKTUELL . For a short while, it seemed as though adults adopting youth dances, such as the twist, had consigned the troubles of rock to the past, but towards the second half of the 1960s, the media reported several public order issues. 15It is true that due to problems with their insurance, the Waldbühne remained in ruins for so long that it was not able to host another beat music concert during the following years. Was denkt ihr? FEUERWERK.net ist seit über 20 Jahren das bedeutendste und reichweitenstärkste deutschsprachige Internetportal für Feuerwerk und Pyrotechnik. The main concert was scheduled to begin at 9.30pm. Al. , October 24, 1966; ‘Rolling Stones kommen nicht. I discuss the reception of the concert more than the band and their music, which are already sufficiently well known, and, in so doing, I draw on police reports and press articles from the months immediately after the event. Motorbikes proved more effective than horses, which tended to be too sensitive to the noise of the drums and firecrackers. Der CDU-Abgeordnete Irmer ist für seine Ausfälle gegen Ausländer, den Islam oder Homosexuelle bekannt. The function of such practices is to ‘evacuate natural aggression’ in a controlled environment, in order to ward off more serious harm. 35 See ‘Ventilsitte’, Lexikon zur Soziologie, edited by Werner Fuchs et al., 2nd rev. Staatsministerium des Innern, München, May 26, 1965, Bayerische Polizeischule Fürstenfeldbruck 472, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv. They included the. had declared that the group’s ‘main objective’ was ‘hysteria, fainting, and turmoil’. were thrown onto the stage or at police officers. Konsum und Politik in der westdeutschen Jugendkultur der 60er Jahre (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006) p. 241-246. which, two years earlier, had organised the concert in Paris at Place de la Nation in collaboration with the radio station Europe 1. The first firecrackers were thrown, along with some objects including shoes and underwear. It was asked whether reports about the potential threat should not have been taken into account and whether it would not have been better to ban the concert from the outset. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006 (Hamburger Beiträge zur Sozial- und Zeitgeschichte, vol. In these interpretations, it is above all male aggression that is ‘tamed’ in this way. From the outset, preparations included a large police operation. {Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Wissenschaftsgeschichte} Volume 51, Number 1, 1967 Ekkehard Kleiss Fruchtbarkeitsidole der Timoto-Cuicas: Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der frühen venezolanischen Medizin- und Kulturgeschichte. rev. famous for their German adaptations of Beatles hits. 9 At Hotel Sachsenhof on the Nollendorfplatz. Eine Betrachtung von Wolfgang Fietkau’, Blickpunkt, no 143, November 1965, p. 3. They included the Team Beats Berlin and Didi and his ABC-Boys, famous for their German adaptations of Beatles hits. Police spokespersons expressed strong criticism of the event’s organisation, pointing to the failings of the security services. Thi The venue was entirely sold out. Pathologie mentale, sexualité et expérience de l'autre, La prévention des récidives : Évaluation, suivis, partenariats, Les Fourches Patibulaires du Moyen Âge à l’Époque moderne. These wooden benches, designed only for people to sit on them, gave way beneath the weight and when the first planks were smashed to pieces, some fans started ripping up more, either caught up in the excitement, according to some, or out of anger at the brevity of the concert and at police use of batons, according to others – causing similar disturbances as during a Bill Haley concert at the Berlin Sportpalast six years earlier.24 The young band’s repertoire was still limited and the concert was not scheduled to last more than half an hour anyway, but, as the police report concedes, the end of the show was ‘more than premature for some of the fans, who were in a state of complete ecstasy’.25 Shortly after this abrupt end, ‘to avoid further destruction, the evacuation of the Waldbühne’ began around 10.15pm ‘with the use of batons’.26 A television journalist, who witnessed the events from the press gallery, described them in terms similar to those that would be used by a war correspondent, stating that, despite all the noise, it was still possible to distinguish ‘the sharp cracking sound of the destruction of the benches, dogs whining and barking, the crowd shouting and whistling, the injured crying for help, and the shattering of glass.’ 27, 10The next day, the police report recorded a heavy toll and some of these figures would later be revised upwards: 89 detentions, 61 injured given first aid, 28 injured treated as outpatients, 26 injured police officers – 6 of whom were hospitalised –, one injured horse, one urban train wagon destroyed (S-Bahn), and 300,000 Deutschmarks of material damage sustained by the Waldbühne. This solution was even more advisable because ‘youths were drawn to everything to do with technology and admired the audacity and skill of the motorbike riders’.46 For the first time, audio and visual recordings were used to provide solid evidence but also for purposes of police training.47 In Essen, unconventional methods were used as described in one report, for example covering the front of the stage with black soap so that any fans trying to climb up would slide back down again under the jeers of the crowd!48, The Rolling Stones stage is prepared with black soap – according to the Telegraf’s caricaturist (October 30, 1965), 17The question of banning concerts was also debated at an inter-regional level. The discourse of criminalisation came to an end and the rock concert became recognised as a cultural event. A little earlier, the first isolated cases of ‘police battoning’ had been reported, to prevent groups of ticketless fans from forcing their way inside. Once again, then, the 1960s emerge as a period of transition (. 31 Report on the execution and experience, p. 7. Siegfried Detlef, Time is on my Side. After the event, these expressions would come to be considered prophetic. Sie erhalten sofort Zugang zu allen digitalen Inhalten im Web und in unserer VRM News-App. By 9.10pm, it was clear that this would not suffice. His book Jugend – Pop – Kultur. 10, 5All the way through to the evening, fans continue to flood into the Waldbühne without incident. Agency Bulletin ‘Berliner Polizei fuer Verbot von Krawall-Veranstaltungen’, n.d., typescript, PhS 3.43.3. Die neuen Sitze der Waldbühne können einiges aushalten’. Naissance des réformes, problématiques, actualité, Détective, histoire, imaginaire, médiapoétique d’un hebdomadaire de fait divers (1928-1940), “Mauvaises filles”. Alte Polizeiakten verraten nun, wie verhärtet die Fronten waren,”. 50 At the Civic Center in Baltimore, this ban remained in place until 1970; See: Linda Martin and Kerry Segrave, Anti-rock, p. 131-132; Karen Sternheimer, Pop Culture Panics: How Moral Crusaders Construct Meanings of Deviance and Delinquency (London: Routledge, 2014), p. 113. In Munich, a jazz expert was invited to speak to senior police officers to give them an introduction, with the aim of raising their awareness of different sounds, with the help of a ‘very good Jazz band’. (Boston: Da Capo Press, 1993), p. 132-133. , September 1965; ‘“Sie sollen kreischen”. Policing the Stones: Music and Violence in Berlin. It was preceded by alarmist reports about the Stones’ reputation, on the one hand, and events linked to their concerts abroad, on the other: in Ireland, fans had invaded the stage; it transpired that during their tours in the United Kingdom, the band nicknamed the ‘Wild Ones of Beat’ travelled in windowless vans along secret routes as though on a ‘military operation’3: in Blackpool in England, in Belfast in Northern Ireland, in Halsingbord in Sweden, and in the American city of Lynn, incidents had taken place leading, in some cases, to the intervention of police dogs and police officers armed with water cannons.4. 56 ‘Extract from the Report of the Institute of Police, Paris,’ Bayer. See letter from Kindler und Schiermeyer publishers to the Police Prefect dated September 1, 1965, P, p. 265-273; Thomas Grotum, “Die Bill-Haley-Tourne. Vol. and citing a musical education specialist from Bremen, Gotho von Irmer. In reality, the group were discreetly housed in Grunewald, a sparsely populated area on the outskirts of Berlin, largely covered in forest.9 The group then took a top secret route through the Berlin backstreets to get to the pressroom of the publisher Springer, where a press conference was held, having only been announced a short time before. Police Report on the events at the Waldbühne on September 15, 1965, sheet 2. Report on the execution and experience, p. 7. Plainclothes surveillance officers were also present and a space was ready to hold any potential prisoners. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2011. At the same time, the deliberate destruction of the Waldbühne’s equipment began. ’s tour included concerts in Münster, Essen, Munich, Berlin, and Hamburg. inetnum: 85.13.128.0 - 85.13.159.255 netname: NMM-NET-1 descr: Neue Medien Muennich GmbH country: DE remarks: ***** remarks: static ip network remarks: For spam, abuse & security issues please contact abuse@all-inkl.com remarks: ***** org: ORG-NMMG1-RIPE admin-c: RM1862-RIPE tech-c: RM1862-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: nmm-mnt created: … *0,99€ im ersten Monat, danach 9,90€ mtl. 19-39. : in Blackpool in England, in Belfast in Northern Ireland, in Halsingbord in Sweden, and in the American city of Lynn, incidents had taken place leading, in some cases, to the intervention of police dogs and police officers armed with water cannons. I discuss the repercussions of these events in a newspaper article: Bodo Mrozek, The early 1960s were relatively calm compared to the previous decade, during which clashes relating to rock 'n' roll and negative social stereotypes associated with the labels ‘. In Hamburg, only plain clothes officers had been used, some of whom were dressed as young fans in order to be able to marshal the crowd if necessary.45 Motorbikes proved more effective than horses, which tended to be too sensitive to the noise of the drums and firecrackers. When a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) representative argued that an example should have been made, by punishing the youths who were arrested, a representative of the Liberals objected that the water cannon could not ‘distinguish the guilty from the innocent’. "setzen sich die Partner Stadt Wetzlar und Lahn-Dill-Kreis bereits seit Jahren gemeinsam mit Vertretern von Zivilgesellschaft, Kirchen, Vereinen und Verbänden für die Förderung von Demokratie und Vielfalt und gegen verfassungsfeindliche Tendenzen ein. Od 21.12.2007 nejsou v zásadě prováděny na společných vnitřních hranicích mezi Českou republikou a Spolkovou republikou Německo žádné hraniční kontroly (článek 20 nařízení EU číslo 56272006 (Schengenský hraniční kodex)). Request by the Wiesbaden Prefect of Police to the Berlin Prefect of Police, dated March 31, 1966, P, meeting between officers of the Protection Police (Schutzpolizei) and Criminal I. Rolf Umbach, ‘Beat Ekstase und Polizeieinsatz’, Polizeischau. Informace pro cestující z ČR do SRN. It analyses how youth culture and popular culture were criminalised and became established in six countries in the 1950s and 1960s. […] Alte Polizeiakten verraten nun, wie verhärtet die Fronten waren,” Welt am Sonntag, June 8, 2014, p. 47. 1970 hätten 300.000 Muslime in Deutschland gelebt, heute seien es sechs bis sieben Millionen. Nr.1 / 1. As a result, police reforms and new safety standards for concert halls and arenas were developed and internationally debated. When the five young Brits stepped off the aircraft at Tegel airport on September 15, substantial measures had been taken to ensure security on the runway. 41-62. Michel Houellebecq, Oswald Spengler und der "Untergang des Abendlandes" : Reden anläßlich der Verleihung des Oswald-Spengel-Preise an Michael Houellebecq von Michel Houellebecq und eine große Auswahl ähnlicher Bücher, Kunst und Sammlerstücke erhältlich auf ZVAB.com. 41 Minutes of the debates published in Polizei Schau. ‘Rock’n’Roll Panic’ in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland”, in: Bodo Mrozek et. Tina Engel, Actress: Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages. Jahrgang Sonderausgabe Literaturzeitung März 2009 Literaturzeitung - Sonderausgabe Steinhööfel: Andreas Steinh „Beschützer der Diebe“ Zum Autor: Andreas Steinhöfel von Fabian Irmer Andreas Steinhöfel wuchs in Biedenkopf auf und machte dort sein Abitur. Fights between Mods and Rockers broke out in seaside resorts in the south of England, while in Paris a mass concert announced as the ‘Nuit de la Nation’ (held on the city’s Place de la Nation) spiralled out of control. On the events at the Waldbühne on September 15, 1965 (report on the execution and experience), Berlin, September 17, 1965, p. 6, PhS 3.43.3. 27 Annex b3 to S 1 524/65 of September 23, 1965: ‘Abschrift des Kommentars von Matthias Walden über den Verlauf der Veranstaltung mit den Rolling Stones in der Waldbühne’, PhS 3.43.3. Zeitschrift für die Berliner Polizei, October 2, 1965, p. 21. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1978. Larger groups were also ‘dispersed’ using fire hoses and a few youths were apprehended and placed in the space for prisoners. 20Things did not reach that stage, however, and nor were beat music concerts banned generally.58 Nevertheless, the problems in Berlin considerably slowed down the future development of open-air rock concerts in Germany, which were generally criminalised in somewhat excessive discourse from the media, police, politicians, and academics alike. Eine transnationale Geschichte, Portail de ressources électroniques en sciences humaines et sociales, Surveiller les Stones : musique et violence à Berlin. Dynamiques des révoltes dans les prisons (XXe-XIXe siècles, Amérique du Nord, Europe), L’administration pénitentiaire, 1945, 1975, 2015. 13The notion of ritual outlet was borrowed from ethnology, in turn inspired by psychoanalysis. November 2020, gestern und dieser Woche. 52 Request by the Wiesbaden Prefect of Police to the Berlin Prefect of Police, dated March 31, 1966, PhS 3.43.3. ‘Rock’n’Roll Panic’ in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland”. 1, Germersheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, 76726 Kontakt Map Öffnungszeiten Bewertungen Sportlerheim Wolfsberg. ), BRAVO. Nevertheless, the problems in Berlin considerably slowed down the future development of open-air rock concerts in Germany, which were generally criminalised in somewhat excessive discourse from the media, police, politicians, and academics alike. 36 See the following chapter: Alexander Mitscherlich, ‘Die Idee des Friedens und die menschliche Agressivität’, in Gesammelte Schriften V, Sozialpsychologie 3, edited by Klaus Menne and Helga Haase (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1983), p. 350. He argued against any ban on the grounds that, in his view, the State should prohibit as little as possible. Reinhart Koselleck) in the establishing of an increasingly transnational youth pop culture in the second half of the twentieth century. In order better to understand the events in Germany, the German police asked the French police for their files on the ‘Nuit de la Nation’. Certain accounts report that some of the audience climbed onto the benches and jumped up and down on them in rhythm, whilst shouting in chorus for the concert to continue. Die Polizei. This lighting had been chosen based on experiments conducted in jazz concerts, which seemed to show that fans’ emotions could be channelled and literally ‘cooled down’ by white light. 4From the outset, preparations included a large police operation. (Ed.). ‘Rock’n’Roll Panic’ in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland”, in: Bodo Mrozek et. 1The early 1960s were relatively calm compared to the previous decade, during which clashes relating to rock 'n' roll and negative social stereotypes associated with the labels ‘Halbstarke’, ‘teddy boys’, and ‘juvenile delinquents’ constantly made the headlines. The destruction of benches, barriers, and lighting systems increased in scale. 19 Schutzpolizei S 1, n.d.., n.p., PhS 3.43.3. The events within the venue were also meticulously documented. Translated into English from the French by Lucy Garnier. cit., p. 7. Approche interdisciplinaire, Savoirs, politiques et pratiques de l'exécution des peines en France au XX, L’aménagement des peines privatives de liberté : l’exécution de la peine autrement, "Théâtre et Justice : autour de la mise en scène des, Le SMPR de Marseille a 30 ans : Histoire et engagement, regards croisés, Catalogue des 552 revues. 55 ‘Krawalle im Ausland’, Die Polizei. See more of Radio Cottbus Verkehrsservice on Facebook See Report on the experience of police measures relating to beat music concerts, sheet 9, 15. The extent to which this destruction was deliberate remains up for debate. It is true that due to problems with their insurance, the Waldbühne remained in ruins for so long that it was not able to host another beat music concert during the following years. From 9.10pm onwards, the atmosphere started to ‘become heated’. Fachzeitschrift für die öffentliche Sicherheit, Extract from the Report of the Institute of Police, Paris,’. In unserem Nachrichtenticker können Sie live die neuesten Eilmeldungen auf Deutsch von Portalen, Zeitungen, Magazinen und Blogs lesen sowie nach älteren Meldungen suchen. Such ritualised situations can be seen in traditional April 1st jokes or ‘orgiastic festivals’, such as Carnival, also considered as ‘moral holidays’.35 In these interpretations, it is above all male aggression that is ‘tamed’ in this way. 41). For the first time, audio and visual recordings were used to provide solid evidence but also for purposes of police training. PhS. This ban had already come into effect for concert halls in Cleveland and Baltimore, while nearly fifteen other cities in the United States had decided on a temporary boycott of rock concerts in the name of public safety. 11 See the Report of the Schutzpolizei command S1, Berlin, 16 September 1965, p. 3, Polizeihistorische Sammlung Berlin 3.43.3. Hotel & Restaurant Haus Irmer Berliner Straße 88, 03099 Kolkwitz. 5,390 Followers, 33 Following, 341 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from BUND Naturschutz in Bayern (@bundnaturschutz) Hundreds of youths [tried to] storm the stage. 21The incidents that took place during the Rolling Stones’ Berlin concert demonstrate in an exemplary fashion how the emergence of new forms of culture in the 1960s did not occur without conflict.59 While different actors tried to add to the disreputable image of the Stones before the concert, presenting them without hesitation as the ‘hardest group in the world’, to set them apart from the ‘nice’ Beatles, the media then only accentuated the desired effect. Grotum Thomas, “Die Bill-Haley-Tournee 1958.