This volume presents pictures from ten crucial years of German post-war history. Beginning with the death of the student Benno Ohnesorg in 1967, it covers the murder of the President of the Employers' Association, Hanns-Martin Schleyer, in 1977, and the story of the Red Army Faction
Der vorliegende Band bietet in einer Text-und Bildcollage einen Überblick über die radikalen politischen und kulturellen Entwicklungen dieser Jahre: Fotos von Homer Sykes und anderen dokumentieren den Grunwick strike von asiatischen Immigrantinnen gegen ihre Bosse, die Hausbesetzerszene mit rund 30 000 squatters und die neu entstandene Schwulenbewegung. Derek Jarman drehte seine ersten Super-8-Filme, Peter Kennard schuf bissige Collagen, Stuart Brisley sorgte mit Performances und Jo Spence mit Fotografien zu Körper und Frauen für Aufsehen. Der bekannte Journalist Jon Savage beleuchtet in einem Essay die Bedeutung der damaligen Protestbewegung und Gegenkultur. Ausstellung: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin 26.6.–15.8.2010
The late 1960s were a time for student rebellion, and there were varying degrees to which the protestors took their message. One of the most notorious groups of student rebels was known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a collective led by Andreas Baader that had as its goal one thing: civil war within Germany. Over the next 30 years the group went on a spree that cost more than 30 lives; last April, it put out a press release that said the group had dissolved. Baader Meinhof: Pictures on the Run 67-77 documents the first ten years of the group as seen through the eyes of Astrid Proll. Proll was a student in 1967, when she became acquainted with Baader. Over the next ten years, she took pictures of her colleagues' exploits; those are on display in the book, along with Proll's look back at the years when she and her colleagues "overestimated [them]selves ridiculously...indulging in the illusion that a revolution was thinkable." These photographs show radicalism at its most violent and, ultimately, deadly.