Marcuse’s reception by the New Left unfolded amid the escalating violence of 1967 Berlin.

Evidence

A year after the Frankfurt Vietnam conference, in July 1967, Marcuse entered the scene in Berlin as a celebrated mentor of the New Left. His arrival was announced by Der Spiegel in an article headed by the final sentences of his article on tolerance, and in which Knut Nevermann, former chairman of the Students’ Union55 of the Free University of Berlin, was quoted as saying, `Marcuse means a great deal to us. He is part of the background for what we are doing.’ Shortly before, on 2 June, the student Benno Ohnesorg had been shot dead. Ohnesorg had been taking part in a demonstration against the Shah of Persia in front of the Berlin Opera. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 649

Categorization

• SHARE: For someone steeped in the 1968 student-movement history: Ohnesorg’s killing during the Shah’s Berlin visit, the trigger event radicalizing the German New Left.
• XREF: connects to: Marcuse’s American popularity carried Critical Theory into the New Left — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 93; By 1968 Marcuse was attacked from right, orthodox left, and Institute colleagues alike — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 4; Marcuse’s Berlin lectures converged with Habermas’s Hanover position — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2631 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marcuse’s American popularity carried Critical Theory into the New Left — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 93; By 1968 Marcuse was attacked from right, orthodox left, and Institute colleagues alike — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 4; Marcuse’s Berlin lectures converged with Habermas’s Hanover position — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2631 (+2 more)