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Die Linke schaut nach Portugal Reisebilder von und für die Nelkenrevolution Ana de Almeida, Jan-Hendrik Müller, Christian Wimplinger Abstract The Carnation Revolution of 1974 brought a significant number of intellectuals from the FRG to post-dictatorial Portugal. While traveling, they supported the left-wing revolutionary process in several ways, contributing in turn to the political disputes of their own countries with a translation of this experience into texts and films. Several writers traveled to Portugal by their own initiative and West-german Newspapers had reporters on site over a longer period of time. Cinema also reacted to the upheavals in Portugal and the Carnation Revolution found its way into a large number of political documentary films. The article asks about the various image construction processes through which travelling intellectuals from the FRG attempt to grasp developments on political, social, economic and military conditions in Portugal after 1974 and shows how the Carnation Revolution was seen as a laboratory, a field of observation for left-wing politics and for the possibility of radical change. Keywords Carnation Revolution, solidarity, travelogue, revolution tourism, relations between FRG and Portugal, 1970s, Torre Bela, militant cinema, Viva Portugal, Sozialistisches Büro DOI 10.25364/08.6:2020.1.4 Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal, Vol. 6 2020, 61–86 Open Access: content is licensed under CC BY 3.0