An Utopian Intervention to Face the Apocalypse: Gorleben's "Free Republic of Wendland" as a protest performance, eco-village and founding moment of the German anti-nuclear movement

In 1980, anti-nuclear activists occupied an exploratory drilling site for a nuclear repository in a secluded region near the inner-German border. Here, the activists set up a provisional village, declaring it their micronation, the “Free Republic of Wendland”. Supported by a range of different arti...

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Main Author: Simone Niehoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro de Estudos de Teatro 2025-06-01
Series:Sinais de Cena
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Online Access:https://revistas.rcaap.pt/sdc/article/view/40828
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