The Dawn of a New Age Aufbruch in Eine Neue Zeit

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.

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