Republikanischer Club (Berlin).

[THE INTELLECTUAL AVANT-GARDE OF '68 – RARE INTERNAL PERIODICALS] RC-Bulletin: Diskussions- und Informationsblatt [RC Bulletin: Discussion and information paper]. Vol. 2, nos. 5 and 12 (of 12 nos. in the second volume; five volumes were published). – WITH: Three issues: Materialien zur Diskussion [Materials for discussion] from 1967 and 1968, see list below. – AND WITH: Three supplements, see list below.

Berlin: Republikanischer Club, 1969. Quartos (30 × 21 cm). Hectographed leaves stapled to upper left corner; 14; 18 pp. Leaves slightly toned and with rust and fox stains; no. 12 with printing error (instead of page 14, page 12 was printed again); still about very good. Item #55278

Two issues of the very rare internal bulletin of the Republican Club, which was founded in West Berlin in April 1967 by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Johannes Agnoli and others as a non-student group of the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition (APO). The writer Enzensberger was at that time the editor of the cultural journal “Kursbuch”, published by Suhrkamp Verlag, and the political scientist Agnoli had a considerable influence on the left-wing student movement with his parliamentary-critical, radical democratic texts. The club's members included left-wing socialists, mainly from the radicalized, formerly social democratic student association (SDS), as well as left-wing liberals from the liberal party (FDP). The different factions were united by their rejection of the so-called “grand coalition” between the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats.

The club was a discussion and gathering point for intellectuals from various opposition groups. Other members included the left-wing lawyer and later RAF accomplice Horst Mahler, the later RAF lawyer and interior minister in reunified Germany Otto Schily, and the chairman of the liberal party (FDP) in Berlin. The club was based in a spacious twelve-room apartment in an upscale area near Berlin's prestigious Kurfürstendamm boulevard. The doors were open every evening except one day a week. Members, each of whom needed three guarantors, had access to discussions, catering, a library, and a reading room with international newspapers and periodicals. With the protests of 1968 and the radicalization of students, the structure of the Republican Club changed significantly. Bourgeois, liberal members became increasingly alienated. From that point on, the club no longer saw itself as a forum for free debate and reflection by individual actors, but as a political space for networking and organizing left-wing groups. (Cf. Detlef Siegfried, Time is on my side: Konsum und Politik in der westdeutschen Jugendkultur der 60er Jahre, Göttingen 2006, p. 464ff.)

As of December 2025, KVK, OCLC lists only three libraries worldwide with holdings, and none in North America.

Materialien zur Diskussion:

1) Springer Enteignen [Expropriate Springer]. Berlin: Republikanischer Club, 1967. Octavo (22 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 51, [1] pp.

2) Berlin: Wirtschaft und Politik. Im Kern gesund? [Berlin: Economy and politics. Fundamentally stable?]. Berlin: Republikanischer Club, 1968. Octavo (20 × 14 3 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 42, [2] pp.

3) Der 9. November 1918: Materialien zur Ausgangslage der Novemberrevolution [9 November 1918: Materials on the situation leading up to the November Revolution]. Berlin: Republikanischer Club, 1968. Octavo (19.6 × 14 3 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 89, [1] pp.

As of February 2026, OCLC lists no copies of (3) in North America, six copies of (2), and seven copies of (1).

WITH: Three circulars from the Republican Club, one of which is 14 pp. Berlin: Republikanischer Club, 1969. Quarto (30 × 21 cm).

Price: €750.00

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