The Dawn of a New Age 1968 in words and pictures Aufbruch in eine neue Zeit „1968“ in Texten und Bildern

This selection of German titles is show-cased at book fairs all over the world on the German collective stands organized by the Frankfurter Buchmesse in 2018.

1967 - How it all started

______History of the SDS Visit of the Shah, 1967 2nd June 1967 The Socialist German Signal for the student A shot that changed the Student Union 1946-1970 movement republic Geschichte des SDS Schahbesuch 1967 Der 2. Juni 1967 Fanal für die Ein Schuss, der die Der Sozialistische Studentenbewegung Republik veränderte Deutsche Studentenbund 1946-1970 ECKARD MICHELS UWE SOUKUP Non-fiction (history) Non-fiction (history) TILMAN P. FICHTER, Ch. Links Verlag, 978-3-86153943-8, Transit, 978-3-887-4734-3, SIEGWARD LÖNNENDONKER 360 pages, 2017, € 25,- 180 pages, 2017, € 20,- Non-fiction (history) Aisthesis, 978-3-8498-1259-1 The nine-day state visit of the Shah of The murder of Benno Ohnesorg on 348 pages, 2017, € 24,80 Persia, Reza Pahlavi, and his wife Farah, 2 June 1967 was one of the triggers in May and June 1967 was accom- for the student unrest that brought With this essential publication on the panied by protests throughout West such far-reaching changes to the history of the Socialist German Student Germany. In the course of the protests, politics and society of post-war Union (SDS – 1946 to 1970), the authors the policeman Karl-Heinz Kurras shot Germany in its wake. Years later it present a revised and expanded edi- and killed the student Benno Ohnesorg emerged that the fatal marksman, tion of their legendary “Short History of in West Berlin. In minute detail, drawing political police officer Heinz Kurras, the SDS”, which first appeared in 1977, on a wide array of sources, Eckard had been a Stasi spy ever since and which has been reissued many Michels reconstructs the background, the 1950s. After this disclosure, the times since. the planning, the course of events and author met Kurras in person and the aftermath of this state visit and the asked him about the matter. Uwe protests aimed at it. The first compre- Soukup’s book is the sober and hensive account of 2 June 1967 as an moving account of that day and event with both domestic and foreign the murder, and of their political affairs relevance. consequences. 1 1967 - How it all started 1968 – The year of revolt

______1967 Anti-authoritarian Headwind The year of two summers 50 years of the student Facing the Sixties movement: the political- 1967 Gegenwind cultural upheavals. Das Jahr der zwei Sommer Facing the Sixties A pamphlet SABINE PAMPERRIEN Antiautoritär CHRISTOPH STÖLZL, Chronicle 50 Jahre Studenten- MICHAEL RUETZ (FOTOS) dtv, 978-3-423-28127-0, bewegung: die politisch- Picture book (history) 384 pages, 2017, € 24,- kulturellen Umbrüche. Nimbus, 978-3-03850-038-4, 208 pages, 85 Ill., 2017, € 39,80 In the USA it was the Summer of Eine Flugschrift Love, but also the summer of the Rudi Dutschke at the micropho- HAJO FUNKE most serious race riots. In England ne, the demonstrations following Non-fiction (history, adapted lecture series) the rake-thin Twiggy became a Benno Ohnesorg’s death, Gudrun VSA Verlag, 978-3-899-65770-8, supermodel. In Germany, Konrad Ensslin with a child’s pram and pro- 96 pages, 2017, € 8,- Adenauer died at the age of 91, test posters: these are images that and the student Benno Ohnesorg A rejection of blind obedience in we all know. In these photos, taken was shot dead. In Greece, the society and politics and at the between 1964 and 1974, Michael colonels carried out their coup universities – just two decades Ruetz shows the people just as he d’état... . Drawing on authentic after the end of the Nazis’ criminal met them in the 1960s, not only in material, this chronicle focuses on regime – and anti Vietnam War: the pictures of the ‘68 rebellion, but the daily events of 1967, gauging these were the main thrust of the in those he took in the former GDR, the atmosphere and public opini- anti-authoritarian movement after in Poland, in Auschwitz. A unique on, examining the political heroes 2 June 1967. Hajo Funke recalls the panorama of the era, such as no and antiheros, the literature, the demonstration against the Shah in other Western photographer was sport and the pop music. front of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, able to take during those years. with its violent disruption and the brutal death of Benno Ohnesorg at the hands of police officer Karl- Heinz Kurras – later exposed as a Stasi spy. And he reminds us of the pogrom-like campaigns of the politicians, police and media in the weeks that followed.

2 1968 – The year of revolt

______The Year of Revolt 1968 in Berlin: 1968 Frankfurt 1968 A historical city guide Youth revolts and global 40 years since 1968 – protest Das Jahr der Revolte Review and perspectives Frankfurt 1968 1968 1968 in Berlin: Schauplätze Jugendrevolte und CLAUS-JÜRGEN GÖPFERT, der Revolte globaler Protest BERND MESSINGER Ein historischer Stadtführer Non-fiction (history, Frankfurt) NORBERT FREI Schöffling & Co., 978-3-89561-665-5, INGO JUCHLER Non-fiction (history, international) 304 pages, 2017, € 20,- Non-fiction (history, Berlin) dtv, 978-3-42324-653-8, Bebra Verlag, 978-3-81480-230-5, 288 pages, 2017, € 15,- In no other German city did the 112 pages, 2017, € 14,- revolts of 1968 leave deeper traces The number ’68 stands for a whole than in Frankfurt am Main. West Berlin was a focal point for decade of rebellion. Not only in The demands made by the extra- the student uprisings. This book West Germany, but across Europe parliamentary opposition and the traces the events, from the first and around the world, young students at the Goethe University anti-Vietnam War demonstration people rose up in protest – even, have not only left their mark on in front of America House in Har- for one brief summer, behind the society today, but continue to in- denbergstraße and the shooting of Iron Curtain. This penetrating over- fluence the city’s cultural life. In this Benno Ohnesorg at the Deutsche view places the German student book, 50 years on, Claus-Jürgen Oper, through to the freeing of the movement within that international Göpfert and Bernd Messinger are later RAF-terrorist Andreas Baader. context – a context essential to joined by prominent eye-witnesses The protest activities in East Berlin, understanding a lot of what like the politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit, primarily demonstrations against happened. publisher KD Wolff and the writer the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Peter Härtling to remember the tur- Warsaw Pact troops, are also exa- bulent, eventful year in Frankfurt. mined here for the first time.

3 1968 – The year of revolt

______»The Last Battle Will be Ours!« Neo-Anarchism in Germany Consumption and Violence 40 years since 1968 – History, review and Radical protest in West Review and perspectives perspectives of the Germany anti-autoritarian Left »Die letzte Schlacht Konsum und Gewalt gewinnen wir!« Neoanarchismus in Radikaler Protest in der 40 Jahre 1968 – Deutschland Bundesrepublik Bilanz und Perspektiven Geschichte, Bilanz und Perspektiven der antiauto- ALEXANDER SEDLMAIER ELMAR ALTVATER / NELE HIRSCH / ritären Linken Non-fiction (history) GISELA NOTZ / THOMAS SEIBERT U.A. Suhrkamp, 978-3-51842-774-3, Non-fiction (history) MARKUS HENNING, ROLF RAASCH 600 pages, 2018, € 28,- VSA, 978-3-89965-315-1, Non-fiction (history) Following the explosion of several 240 pages, 2008, € 12,80 Schmetterling, 978-3-89657-079-6, bombs in two Frankfurt depart- 298 pages, 2016, € 14,80 The fight to claim an authoritative ment stores in the night to 2 April, interpretation of the events of 1968 In a period of social and political 1968, investigators found a note left reveals much about the present upheavals, when the momentum by the suspects: “The pressure to day. This volume brings together of youth sub-cultures came to- consume is terrorising you. We’re left-wing positions, not as an eluci- gether with radically democratic terrorising the goods.” Committed dation of past movements, but as forms of protest, how did it come by, among others, the subsequent a spur to a lively critique of capita- to the rediscovery of anarchism? founders of the RAF, Andreas Baa- lism in both theory and practice. Among other things, this book tells der and Gudrun Ensslin, the attacks the background story prior to the responded to the growing criticism formation of the Socialist Ger- of society and consumerism in the man Student Union – the SDS – in context of the Cold War. 1968. It also attempts to distingu- Drawing on extensive archival stu- ish between the “authoritarians” dies, Alexander Sedlmaier traces and “traditionalists”, between the this development. “Marxists” and “Anarchists” acting in and around the revolts of 1968. A useful introduction for anyone interested in the history of the Left in Germany.

4 1968 – Eye-witnesses The year of revolt

______Opponents of the Revolution Now - „I Want to Remember Eve- 1968 and the struggle for A History of My Adventures rything that People Forget“ the republic‘s intellectual with the Imagination Life and work of Erich Fried foundation Jetzt - „Ich will mich erinnern an 1968 und der Kampf um die Geschichte meines Aben- alles, was man vergisst“ intellektuelle Gründung teuers mit der Phantasie Erich Fried - Biographie der Republik und Werk KARL HEINZ BOHRER JOACHIM FISCHER Biography (cultural history) GERHARD LAMPE Essay (history) Suhrkamp, 978-3-51842-579-4, Biography (literature) zu Klampen, 978-3-866-74563-6, 542 pages, 2017, € 26,- Fischer TB, 978-3-596-30897-2, 160 pages, 2017, € 16,- 188 pages, 2016, € 19,99 Karl Heinz Bohrer is considered When the intellectual Left called for one of the most pugnacious of In 1968, the year of the extra-par- a frontal assault on all institutions German intellectuals. As the head liamentary opposition, or APO, for of “middle-class society”, some of the literature section of the FAZ whom Erich Fried was, in the words well-known thinkers such as Hannah – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – of Der Spiegel, a “lyrical house- Arendt, Ralf Dahrendorf, Joachim he was controversial even among god”, Fried was already 47 years Fest, Hans Georg Gadamer, Niklas his colleagues. As the editor of the old. But that didn’t hinder him, a Luhmann and Karl Popper began intellectual magazine Merkur, he friend of Rudi Dutschke, from stan- vehemently to defend that form was infamous for his bold topics, ding up repeatedly for the interests of existence. In this collection of and as university teacher he was a of the student movement. Fried sketches, Joachim Fischer shows figure of hate for the Left. In “Now”, got involved wherever injustice how those who put the brakes on Bohrer spans his life story since the occurred. He was an unorthodox the 68ers made their own decisive late 1960s, from his conflicts with left-winger who reached a wide contribution to the intellectual re- the FAZ and his friendship with public, not only with his “poems of establishment of the West German Ulrike Meinhof, through his realistic wrath and angst”, but also with his republic. and highly subjective experiences “love poems”. This biography sket- during many years spent living ches the most important moments abroad and in his university ap- among his contemporaries and pointments, up to his uncompromi- the literary experiences that made sing overview of the contemporary Fried an “engaged poet”. “situation”.

5 Eye-witnesses

______I‘ll Carry the Case Myself Blood and Thunder Adorno for the Children of Memories Theatre / Life the Rubble A history of 1968 Den Koffer trag ich selber Mord und Totschlag Theater / Leben Adorno für Ruinenkinder EVA DEMSKI Eine Geschichte von 1968 Biography (literature) CLAUS PEYMANN Suhrkamp, 978-3-45817-718-0, Non-fiction (cultural history) HEINZ BUDE 397 pages, ca. 85 Ill., 2017, € 20,- Alexander Verlag, 978-3-89581-425-9, Non-fiction (history) 536 pages, 2016, € 29,90 Carl Hanser Verlag, 978-3-44625-915-7, Eva Demski collects other lives, 128 pages, 2018, € 17,- well-known and unknown, inclu- This book of a theatrical life charts ding literary figureheads like Reich- Claus Peymann’s path through the The events of ’68 have a polarising Ranicki, Koeppen, Kempowski and lows and highs of the dramatic effect, even today. Heinz Bude has Rose Ausländer. Foreigners open arts, and it explains why the thea- spoken to men and women who up to her, but she’s always se- tres he headed in Frankfurt, Stutt- experienced things at first hand. arching for, and finding, outsiders. gart, Bochum, Vienna and Berlin They all share in common the She also has her own Dead Poets were among the best and most passage from childhoods spent Society. She came from a child- exciting venues, as well as the most amongst post-war ruins into a hood in Regensburg that smelt of scandal-ridden. With contribu- world of new freedoms. incense and cigarettes, followed tions by Elfriede Jelinek, Hermann But from Adorno they inherited the by theatre, and a youth lived in Beil, Thomas Bernhard, Thomas notion that the more you under- politically unstable times. The times Brasch, Peter Handke, André Heller, stand of society, the harder it is became still more unstable when Rolf Hochhuth, Heiner Müller, Einar to make yourself useful to society. her husband, a lawyer for the RAF, Schleef, Peter Turrini and others. With the bleakest of pasts behind died and the police show an inte- them they wanted to change so- rest in her. Snapshots that capture ciety in order to find their own lives. moments of German history from Now, 50 years after the revolts, it’s the previous decades. time to understand how much their private burdens played a role in the political events.

6 Eye-witnesses Heroes (and anti-heroes)

______68 1968 Che Guevara Child Perpetrators and Pop, Protest and Provocation Che Guevara Rebels in 68 Keywords A novel about a revolt A source book MATTHIAS RÜB 68 1968 Biography Täterkinder und Rebellen Pop, Protest und (history series: „Reclam 100 Pages“) Familienroman einer Provokation Reclam, 978-3-15-020429-0, Revolte in 68 Stichpunkten 100 pages, 2010, € 10,- Ein Materialienbuch Already in his own lifetime, Ernesto KARIN WETTERAU „Che“ Guevara became an icon of Non-fiction (history) WALTER GÖDDEN the Revolution. As a medical doctor Aisthesis, 978-3-8498-1168-6, Non-fiction (history) and adventurer, as a leader of the 325 pages, 2017, € 20,- Aisthesis, 978-3-8498-1238-6, revolution in Cuba and, following 747 pages, 2017, € 29,80 In the context of the tense politi- his break with Fidel Castro, as a cal debates, the author talks to a This collection of texts documents guerrilla fighter in Congo and Bo- number of eye-witnesses and ins- the works published by Westphalian livia, his life was anything but dull. tigators who were close to the 1968 authors in 1968, as well as the pro- But where there’s light, there are movement. The book reveals areas jects those writers were associated also shadows. The revolutionary of continuity and of rupture in the with at the time and their overall fighting claimed many victims, and awakening of a political genera- attitudes to the phenomenon that late in 1967 it cost him his own life. tion, a generation whose forma- was „1968”. Where did it lead, that path of vio- tive early experiences included lence taken by Che? This is just one a childhood during the war, the of the questions asked by Matthias bombed-out cities of the post-war Rüb in his fascinating portrait of period, and the confrontation with the revolutionary and the man. the crimes of the Nazis.

7 Heroes (and anti-heroes)

______Change the World! Wiesengrund Capitalism and Opposition The life of Rudi Dutschke Lectures to one- Wiesengrund dimensional people. Verändert die Welt! GISELA VON WYSOCKI Paris, Vincennes 1974 Das Leben des Rudi Dutschke Novel Kapitalismus und Suhrkamp, 978-3-51842-549-7, Opposition: ELISABETH ZÖLLER 264 pages, 2016, € 22,- Vorlesungen zum ein- Young adult book (history) Hanna travels to Frankfurt am dimensionalen Menschen. Carl Hanser, 978-3-44625-706-1, Main as a philosophy student, so Paris, Vincennes 1974 336 pages, 2017, € 19,- she can experience at first hand HERBERT MARCUSE, Who was the man in the knitted the author Wiesengrund, who on PETER-ERWIN JANSEN (ED.) pullover with the megaphone? the radio had opened up entirely Essay (philosophy; lectures) What was Rudi Dutschke’s role in new worlds to her childhood self. zu Klampen, 978-3-86674-559-9, German history? Today, it is hard to The political turbulence of the time 152 pages, 2017, € 18,- imagine how reactionary society also work their way into Hanna’s was in post-war West Germany. new life situation. „Wiesengrund“ Herbert Marcuse‘s writings are It was not until the ’68-ers that is about a close encounter with a among the most important works anyone demanded radical fascination. And it describes the of critical theory, and they were changes in politics and society. funny, bizarre and ultimately futile standard works for the student mo- They wanted co-determination, attempts to escape his oppressive vements all around the world. emancipation and a critical enchantment. A novel about the The philosopher, who had emig- approach to authorities. intellectual Frankfurt of 1968, and rated to the USA in 1934, gave nu- The first biography of Rudi Dutschke a declaration of love for one of the merous lectures in European cities, for young adults: the 1968 revo- most important philosophers of the for instance in 1974 at the University lution and the battle for equality, 20th century. of Paris VIII – the reformed Univer- social justice and democracy. sity of Vincennes. Rediscovered in 2012 and published in German in 2017, the manuscript demonstra- tes that Marcuse‘s lectures on the global dangers of unchained neo- liberalism have lost none of their critical edge, despite the changed context of the early 21st century.

8 Heroes Women‘s power (and anti-heroes)

______A Little Red Book Much Achieved, Eeny, Meeny, Missy „Mao‘s Bible“ and the book Much too Slowly The superpowers of revolution of the 1960s On the process of feminism emancipation Ein kleines rotes Buch Ene, mene, Missy Die „Mao-Bibel“ und die Viel zu langsam viel Die Superkräfte des Bücher-Revolution der erreicht. Feminismus Sechzigerjahre Über den Prozess der Emanzipation SONJA EISMANN ANKE JASPERS, CLAUDIA MICHALSKI, Young adult book (feminism) MORTEN PAUL (ED.) BARBARA SICHTERMANN FISCHER Kinder- und Jugendtaschen- Non-fiction (history) Non-fiction (feminism) buch, 978-3-7335-0258-4, Matthes Seitz, 978-3-95757-470-1, zu Klampen, 978-3-86674-556-8, 256 pages, 2017, € 12,99 250 pages, 2017, € 28,- 160 pages, 2017, € 18,- Beyoncé, Lena Dunham, Miley Cyrus, Emma Watson, Judith Holo- In 1967, the words of Chairman Mao For around 200 years now Western fernes, Charlotte Roche: they all appeared in German for the first women have been triggering call themselves feminists. And they time. In the whirlwind of political changes, slowly at first, and with make it clear just how relevant the events and the student movement setbacks; then rapidly, and with topic is today, 50 years after 1968. at the time, the “Little Red Book” setbacks; finally, since the 1970s, But what is feminism really? This with the Chinese revolutionary’s furiously and with no notable book introduces young girls to the collected aphorisms and slogans setbacks. The well known journa- different streams of the movement, quickly became a cult item. list and 1968 intellectual, Barbara from anarcha-feminism to lipstick As a symbol of rebellious attitudes, Sichtermann, shows us what has feminism and xeno-feminism. At it was often seen at demonstra- changed over the years as a result the same time, she warns them tions, in films and in magazine pho- of the women’s movement, and she against simple truths and she tos. But did people actually read doesn’t ignore the problems now answers their most intimate ques- the book, or just wave it around? emerging from the modern compe- tions. This anthology charts the develop- tition between the sexes. ment of the “Maoist Bible” into the ultimate revolutionary accessory.

9 Women‘s power

______Why the Tomatoes Flew Free Down Below A Short History of The autonomous women‘s Feminism in the Untenrum frei movements of the 1970s Euro-American Context Warum flog die Tomate? MARGARETE STOKOWSKI Kleine Geschichte des Die autonomen Frauenbe- Essay (feminism) Feminismus im euro- wegungen der Siebziger- Rowohlt, 978-3-4980-6439-6, amerikanischen Kontext jahre 256 pages, 2016, € 19,95 ANTJE SCHRUPP / PATU (ILL.) GISELA NOTZ How political is the private sphere Graphic novel (feminism) Non-fiction (feminism) – 50 years on from 1968? Unrast, 978-3-89771-595-0, AG SPAK, 978-3-945959-26-8, In her debut book, Margarete 86 pages, 2015, € 9,80 90 pages, 2018, € 9,- Stokowski recounts her early wish Philosophers, rebels and activists to be taken seriously as a young The new revised edition of this – all of them women. This comic girl, and she discusses inadequate book describes the formation of tells the story of feminism, from sex-education classes, hair and independent women’s movements antiquity to the European women’s the removal of hair, violence, sex, in 1970s Germany. It discusses movement of the early 1970s, and love and feminism. She combines subjects such as abortion, violence up to the present day. Along the her personal experiences with phi- against women and new modes of way, it not only introduces indivi- losophical, political and scientific living and education, as well as the dual feminists, it also elaborates analyses, making clear as she does impacts of these movements on some important feminist debates, so that she’s not alone with her later generations. for example about equal rights, experiences. housework, free love, equality and differences, and gender main- streaming. A clever, fast-paced and very amusing approach to a topic that’s as explosive as ever.

10 RAF

______A Day in Autumn 1977 Blind Spots of the Red The RAF, the state and the RAF versus West Germany Army Faction Schleyer case 1977 Die blinden Flecken der Ein Tag im Herbst RAF gegen Bundesrepublik RAF Die RAF, der Staat und der Fall Schleyer BUTZ PETERS WOLFGANG KRAUSHAAR Non-fiction (history) Non-fiction (history) ANNE AMERIE-SIEMENS Droemer, 978-3-42627-678-5, Klett-Cotta, 978-3-60898-140-7, Non-fiction (history) 576 pages, 2017, € 26,99 423 pages, 2017, € 25,- Rowohlt Berlin, 978-3-87134-834-1, In 1977, the left-wing terrorism In the autumn of 1977, with the 320 pages, 2017, € 19,95 practised by the Red Army Fac- kidnapping and murder of Hanns tion in West Germany reached a Martin Schleyer, and the hi-jacking From widely differing view points new dimension. With the murders of the „Landshut“ plane, the atroci- Anne Ameri-Siemens recounts how, of Dresdner Bank director, Jürgen ties of the RAF reached their peak. in 1977, terror permeated an entire Ponto, the public prosecutor- But the origins of the RAF’s violence country and how, after the abduc- general, Siegfried Buback, and lie further back in the early phase of tion of Hanns Martin Schleyer, the Hanns Martin Schleyer, president the apparently harmless ’68 move- terrorists presented the German of the employers association, and ment. The protagonists, who styled government of Helmut Schmidt with the hi-jacking of the airliner themselves anti-bourgeois heroes, with the terrible choice: to release “Landshut”, a second generation were themselves deeply rooted in prisoners or to accept the death of the RAF came to the fore, who post-war, middle-class Germany. of the hostage. The author has were determined to exert extreme Kraushaar sheds new light on the questioned many and varied eye- brutality. Meanwhile, the suicides thicket of misconceptions and idea- witnesses. We hear from political of Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin lisation, and draws some surprising decision-makers of the time, such and Jan-Carl Raspe in Stammheim conclusions. as Hanns-Eberhard Schleyer, as goal marked the end of the first well as former RAF lawyers, rela- generation in a way that shook the tions of the victim, police officers republic. Butz Peters recounts the and the guards who watched over dramatic events of that milestone the RAF prisoners in Stammheim. year of 1977, placing them in the context of the terror group’s origins and with glances ahead at later attacks up until the group dissol- ved itself.

11 RAF

______Poetry and Violence Across Borders The Invention of the Red The Life of Gudrun Ensslin From the Underground to Army Faction by a Manic- the Favela depressive Teenager in the Poesie und Gewalt Summer of 1969 Das Leben der Gudrun Über Grenzen Ensslin Vom Untergrund in die Die Erfindung der Roten Favela Armee Fraktion durch ei- INGEBORG GLEICHAUF nen manisch-depressiven Biography (history) LUTZ TAUFER Teenager im Sommer 1969 Klett-Cotta, 978-3-60894918-6, Biography (history) 350 pages, 2017, € 22,- Assoziation A, 978-3-8624-1457-4, FRANK WITZEL 288 pages, 2017, € 19,80 Novel Gudrun Ensslin was a leading Matthes & Seitz, 978-3-44271-423-0, figure of the RAF, but as a highly Lutz Taufer’s life resembles an ex- 817 pages, 2015 (TB 2016), € 29,90 educated and literate person she ploratory sweep across the whole was a lot more besides. The author territory of the radical Left in West Gudrun Ensslin as an Indian squaw describes in detail Ensslin’s intel- Germany: rebellion against the in brown plastic and Andreas Baa- lectual and political development. ingrained attitudes of the Adenau- der a knight in shiny black armour? She shows us how radicalisation er period in provincial Baden; 1968 In this moving novel that reinstates with a tendency to violence could in Freiburg; Action Group Political the cosmos of the former West Ger- develop from the educated middle Psychology in ; Socia- many, the world of the child narra- classes in post-war Germany. At list Patients Collective in Heidel- tor is no less real than the political the heart of this biography is an berg; a member of „Holger Meins events which held those years in extreme individual with her extre- Kommando“ in the RAF; 20 years thrall – events that the 13-year- me lifestyle. The author traces all of imprisonment; a dozen hunger old interprets in his own particular her life situations, devoting a lot of strikes bringing him close to death. way. In this imaginative, large-scale space to Ensslin’s thus-far neglec- And since his parole, a decade of literary reconstruction of Germany’s ted childhood and youth, as well as grassroots work in the Favelas of western half, Frank Witzel has suc- her relationships. Rio de Janeiro, and today a mem- cessfully constructed a historical ber of the management board of hall of mirrors in the head of an the peace organisation Weltfrie- adolescent. densdienst. An astonishing docu- ment of contemporary history.

12 Pop culture

______1967 Hold on to Your Love The Whole Terrible When Pop Changed our Beautiful Life World Forever The biography Halt dich an deiner Liebe 1967 fest Das ganze schrecklich Als Pop unsere Welt für Rio Reiser schöne Leben immer veränderte GERD MÖBIUS Die Biographie ERNST HOFACKER Biography (music) KONSTANTIN WECKER Non-fiction (music) Aufbau, 978-3-35103-627-0, Biography (music) Reclam, 978-3-15011-086-7, 351 pages, 2016, € 22,95 Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 272 pages, 2016, € 34,95 As the events of 1968 reverberated, 978-3-57908-644-6, Despite the escalating war in Viet- the band , with 480 pages, 2017, € 24,99 nam, the radicalisation of the civil their anthems to anarchy, „Keine rights movement in the USA and Macht für Niemand“ (No power for In 1968, aged 21, Konstantin Wecker the emergence of student unrest, in nobody) and „Macht kaputt, was made his first solo appearances in 1967 the world seemed to vibrate to euch kaputt macht“ (Destroy what the cabaret scene. Ten years later, the rhythm of the new pop music. destroys you), became the voice his political song „Willy“ catapulted What was happening in the pop of the left-wing scene – a scene him to the front line of left-leaning scene that year, the year when that brought together alternative German singer-songwriters. Since Kommune 1 formed in West Berlin, people, house squatters and men then, the musician has repeatedly and when, in the USA, more albums avoiding their military service, all used his songs and interviews to were sold than singles for the first experimenting with new ways of oppose war, capitalism and right- time? Who were the protagonists living. At its heart was Rio Reiser, wing extremism. This autobiogra- of that magical mystery year, what co-founder of the „Scherben“, as phy is an eye-witness account of a moved them, and what were the brilliant as he was eccentric. In turbulent life, which also provides a consequences? In tracing the this book, his brother Gert Möbius portrait of his generation. events of the time, Ernst Hofacker draws on his own notes as well as brings this fascinating period of Reiser’s diaries to describe those upheaval back to life. wild years in which the world was turned upside-down and then put back in place.

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______Joan Baez Fleckhaus Younger Than Yesterday Portrait of an Design/Revolt/Rainbow 1967 as a Leap Year of Pop Uncompromising Woman Fleckhaus Younger Than Yesterday Joan Baez Design/Revolte/Regenbogen 1967 als Schaltjahr des Pop Porträt einer Unbeugsamen HANS-MICHAEL KOETZLE, GERHARD KAISER (ED.) JENS ROSTECK CARSTEN WOLFF Non-fiction (music) Biography (music) Exhibition catalogue (art and design) Wagenbach, 978-3-80313-664-0, Osburg Verlag, 978-3-95510-142-8, Hartmann Projects Verlag, 256 pages, 2017, € 24,- 350 pages, 2017, € 24,- 978-3-96070-012-8, 240 pages, 660 Ill., 2017, € 39,80 In 1967, pop music grew up. Ever The unparalleled career of Joan since 1967, pop has aspired to be art Chandos Baez, musical figure- Like no other, Willy Fleckhaus – not least because of head of the civil rights movement, influenced the visual culture of and „Sgt. Pepper‘s Lonely Hearts of strict pacifism and of the US the still nascent Federal Republic Club Band“. This book tells of the counter-culture, now covers almost of Germany from the 1960s to the Beatles’ new start and the decline six decades. While marching on 1980s. He gained international re- of the Beach Boys, about Jimi Hen- Washington and singing at Wood- cognition for the pioneering design drix‘ Debut, Bob Dylan’s comeback stock, this icon of the of the youth magazine Twen. With and all the other albums released gave us her vision of a world order its content, generous layout and in that fascinating year. With deep free of violence. Jens Rosteck de- modern typography and photo- insights and rich in anecdotes, the scribes the adventurous path taken graphy, this left its mark on several chapters of this book invite us to through life by Baez, friend to Bob generations. At the same time, he rediscover those albums which Dylan and recipient of Amnesty devised layouts for the illustrated continue to influence pop music International’s Ambassador of magazine Quick, for the Frankfurter today. And along the way, they also Conscience award, from the stu- Allgemeine Zeitung’s colour sup- recount the events of 1967. dent cafes of East Coast Bohemia plement, and for book series such and the Flower Power festivals, to as Suhrkamp’s rainbow-coloured her resistance against the Iraq War editions and Insel Verlag’s paper- and Donald Trump. backs. The first comprehensive monograph about one of the 20th century’s most important designers.

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______They Are Expecting Us Children of Sisyphus Thirteen Women and the Pizzas in Nice Wir werden erwartet Die Kinder des Sisyfos A novel about the lives of ULLA HAHN ERASMUS SCHÖFER erstwhile rebels Novel Novel tetralogy Dreizehn Frauen und die DVA, 978-3-42104-782-3, Dittrich, 978-3-937717-31-9, Pizza in Nizza 640 pages, 2017, € 28,- 2048 pages, 2008, € 77,- Roman über die Biografien “If Schöfer sustains this level across einstiger Rebellinnen “They Are Expecting Us” movingly four books, his tetralogy could go tells the story of a young woman HANNA PFETZING down as a benchmark in literary in the turbulent years between Novel history,” wrote Michael Sailer in 1968 and the German Autumn. For Kuuuk Verlag, 978-3-93983-297-3, 2001 in Munich. The fourth in the Hilla Palm, the world has opened 262 pages, 2017, € 15,- series, “Winterdämmerung” (“Dusk up. After a long search, this young in Winter”), appeared seven years woman from a simple family has 13 women in a mid-sized university after “Spring of Wild Hopes”, the finally found her place – in litera- city at the end of the 1960s. In the subject of Sailer’s review, and the ture and with Hugo, the man who whirlwind of the APO movement critic’s expectations were shown accepts Hilla along with all her (extra-parliamentary opposition) to have been justified. Schöfer’s bitter experiences. Together, they things are possible that were un- “Children of Sisyphus” is a self- discover love and experience 1968, thinkable in the dark times after the willed, unique work of modern the year when everything seems war: demonstrations, happenings, German literature. The history of possible. But then fate intervenes in meetings and endless debates the 1968 generation – the Children their plans. In despair, Hilla looks for about reforms. Even reforms of a of Sisyphus. support among people fighting for shop for children’s goods. 50 years a more just and peaceful world. later, after 13 separately lived lives, an old idea resurfaces: a journey to Nice for a weekend of excess.

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______Rebecca, Roswitha and The Successful Failure of a Hope was Once Green the Wild Seventies Movement The rise of a party: The story of a fraud The Frankfurt Model Alliance 90/The Greens Rebecca, Roswitha und as a political party and a Die Hoffnung war mal grün die wilden Siebziger sociocultural phenomenon Aufstieg einer Partei: Das Die Geschichte eines Frankfurter Modell Betruges Vom erfolgreichen Schei- tern einer Bewegung CLAUS-JÜRGEN GÖPFERT PETER BUTSCHKOW Non-fiction (contemporary history) Novel Bündnis 90/Die Grünen als Westend, 978-3-86489-130-4, Konkursbuch, 978-3-88769-588-0, politische Partei und so- 320 pages, 2016, € 22,- 380 pages, 2017, € 14,90 ziokulturelles Phänomen It all began in Frankfurt. This is The division of Germany, the border ANDREAS STIFEL where, during the 1970s, the later guards of the GDR, the spirit of Non-fiction (contemporary history) green politicians Joschka Fischer, the ’68ers: these are the themes Springer VS, 978-3-65819-444-4, Jutta Ditfurth and Daniel Cohn- that award-winning cartoonist 317 pages, 2017, € 44,99 Bendit all met up while fighting Peter Butschkow has addressed against nuclear power. This is whe- Andreas Stifel applies an academic with plenty of humour and irony in re the ecological fundamentalists analysis to a party characterised by his first novel. Two friends, Archie and the realists conducted their contradictions, thereby closing the and Speck, have withdrawn from heated debates and created the gap in understanding between the West Berlin to rent a timber-framed foundations for the first red-green oft-described failure of the social cottage in Bergisches Land. Their coalition government in a federal movement and the successful crea- house is also the address of the state in 1985, in Hessen with “trai- tion of the political party Alliance DAMOUR publishing house estab- ning-shoe minister” Fischer, and for 90/The Greens. This book attempts lished by Archie. He publishes criti- the first red-green city administra- to answer the following questions: cal romantic novels and also writes tion in Frankfurt in 1989. An au- Who are the green voters of the himself, using the resonant pseud- thentic look back, richly illustrated, 21st century? How does “green” onym Rebecca C. Creek. His cover which also asks what the future politics work today? What impact is threatened when an enthusiastic holds for the greens. do (post-)modern lifestyles and the reader wants to get to know “the individualisation of society have on famous American author”. our choice of parties?

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______This is Our House 1968 – The Scaremonger A history of squatting A Revolution of Perception? 1968 and the new Right Pushing back the political Das ist unser Haus Die Angstmacher horizon in the 1960s and Eine Geschichte der Haus- 1968 und die Neuen Rechten 1970s besetzung THOMAS WAGNER BARBARA SICHTERMANN, „1968“ - Eine Wahrneh- Non-fiction (contemporary history) KAI SICHTERMANN mungsrevolution? Aufbau, 978-3-35103-686-7, Non-fiction (society) Horizont-Verschiebungen 336 pages, 2017, € 18,95 Aufbau, 978-3-35103660-7, des Politischen in den 1968 is the origin of today’s alter- 300 pages, 2017, € 26,95 1960er und 1970er Jahren native left-wing narrative. It was INGRID GILCHER-HOLTEY (ED.) then that the values were instilled It was not just in Berlin, Hamburg, Non-fiction (contemporary history) which still influence us profoundly Frankfurt, Cologne, Freiburg and Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, now: diversity of opinion, demo- Zurich that the battle for houses be- 978-3-48671-872-0, cracy, equal rights, emancipation, gan in the 1970s. Kai Sichtermann, 138 pages, 2013, € 19,95 tolerance. At first glance, it seems founding member of the legen- surprising that that 1968 was also a dary band Ton Steine Scherben, Was the ’68 movement “cultu- new beginning for the political right was there at the heart of things. rally successful”, although “failing in Germany. But that was indeed Together with his sister, journalist politically”? To gauge the impacts the case. An engrossing overview of Barbara Sichtermann, he has now of the movement, the six studies the new right-wing forces and their questioned some of the leading in this volume assess the structural origins. figures of that time. They tell how changes and shifting boundaries everything began, what the move- in political life in the 1960s and ’70s. ment achieved and what battles They address theatre as a potenti- the squatters have had to fight over al medium for dramatizing political the passing decades. Oral history of issues, television as a communica- the best kind. tor of and actor in social protests and the periodical „Kursbuch“ as a forum for the protest movement, and they examine the editorial offices of selected newspapers as spaces of possibility, the history of an opposition institution establis- hed in 1968, and the ongoing battles to interpret the “true” memory of ’68.

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______Weather Report Planning and organisation: 68 and the Crisis Frankfurter Buchmesse GmbH of Democracy Braubachstraße 16 D-60311 Frankfurt am Main Wetterbericht book-fair.com 68 und die Krise der buchmesse.de Demokratie ______SUSANNE SCHÜSSLER (ED.) Selection, title annotations: Non-fiction (contemporary history) Susanne Van Volxem, Frankfurt Wagenbach, 978-3-803136-695, ______192 pages, 2017, € 20,- Translation:

Alastair Penny, Brussels Wagenbach Verlag played a key role in the intellectual stand-off of ______1968, as the publisher of authors Design, setting: such as Peter Brückner, Rudi www.weirauch-mediadesign.de Dutschke, Ulrike Meinhof, Che ______Guevara, Antonio Negri and Mao With support from: Tse-Tung, and of books like the red Federal Foreign Office calendar for school children and apprentices, and the manifesto of ______the RAF. Works issued by Wagen- Contact: bach were not tightly limited in an For questions, please contact ideological sense, but were often Bärbel Becker more radical than books published E-mail: [email protected] elsewhere, which led to legal pro- Phone: +49 (0) 69 2102 258 ceedings and judgements. book-fair.com/german_collecti- Today, we face the question of how ve_stands the events of ’68 relate to our po- ______litical and societal situation. Here, © Frankfurter Buchmesse GmbH, Wagenbach authors from then and Frankfurt am Main 2018. now address that question. No reproduction without prior permission of the publisher.

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