Internationale Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft
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The first Internationale Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft [ɡəˈzɛlʃaft] (generally translated as "community" or "society"), here understood as "commune", was a founding within the 68er-Bewegung in Hamburg, at the time when the American Counterculture[1] reached Europe's students.
Founded by Natias Neutert in 1968 and supported by Hubert Fichte and other cultural patrons, the institute worked until the end of 1973.
Goals
The institute sought to intensify the knowledge of Walter Benjamin's works. One important goal of the society was to propagate and promote Benjamin to a global prototype of theory of revolutionary change such as Marx.[2] Another important goal was to combine Benjamin's elitist insights with the mass phenomenon of Pop music.[3][4]
