Medienwerkstatt Freiburg (Media Workshop Freiburg)
«We've Stopped Asking for Permission»

The degree to which the alternative movement was also a struggle for, and in, the media is demonstrated by the events that took place around the pirate broadcaster Radio Dreyeckland and the sudden, spring-like radio revival that occurred in Freiburg in Southern Germany in 1985. The station was founded in 1977 during a protest sit-in on electricity poles in Alsace (F) in reaction to the one-sided coverage of the anti-nuclear movement by the official media. For several years, Radio Dreyeckland (based in the triangular territory encompassing the borders of Germany, France and Switzerland) clandestinely broadcast from a forest location and from an exile studio in France. The broadcaster, which in this documentation is shown as part of the socialist radio-alliance tradition, has been officially licensed since summer of 1988, and transmits from Freiburg a 24-hour programme compiled by groups and individual listeners.

Rudolf Frieling