And the continent of africa on the move stories about motivational change makers taking their destinies into their own hands. V. W. Multimedia series food for. D. W. B. Dot com. Hello and welcome to twenty one this week were celebrating the spirit of one thousand Nine Hundred Sixty six was its a year that changed the world. A time of social and political upheaval the old order was stripped away and nothing was ever the same again and taking stock of the legacy of sixty eight and its relevance today about. Half a century on. It all began in the early sixtys
in the usa Berkeley California students are fed up. Civil rights free speech the War In Vietnam Social Topics that culminated in massive protests with National Implications and sparked demonstrations around the Globe The Rebellion has a soundtrack. The call for change and freedom spreads to germany to west berlin june one Nine Hundred Sixty Seven the shah of iran makes an official visit students demonstrate against his authoritarian regime and terrible human rights Record Police crackdown violently and ben is shot his death fuels the outrage of the student movement. The process though how and the demonstrators specifically playing as newspaper. Owners
august death in One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Eight becomes a catalyst for the student revolt. Their leader. The revolutionary his comrades and the authoritarian. The is one of the spear heads of the movement that formed in the postwar era as are. Reaction to bush German Society the charismatic head of the socialist Students Union demands a d. Not such a case of the police and other branches of government and criticises legal reforms as undemocratic. In april One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Eight an attempt is made on route because life he survives seriously wounded but never fully recovers. The mood escalates the willingness to use violence grows in left wing circles the fear of germany becoming fascist is strong the movement is radicalized. This contributes to the founding of the notorious Terror Group Red army faction. Nine hundred
sixty eight a Turning Point in the postwar era of germany politically charged volatile controversial even today. His pictures are part of the collective memory of an entire generation robert lee back as one of the greatest photographers of the postwar era what his images from one Nine Hundred Sixty Eight not what you might think. The final students were protesting and being clubbed by police and more strawman Robert Maybrick ones elsewhere. Like of the Documentary Exhibition In Casa De The year of the student on rest took place without being clever crowed in his memoirs profiled others making history like joseph was. Never an issue pervasive when he wasnt in paris or west berlin or tokyo anywhere where students were demonstrating. But he was on the road in other places and captured the essence of that year of violence that year of
media to zation and his photo series such as it is so you can learn much about contemporary history from this exhibition so i shifted on the hundred dollars to. Almost two hundred of Liberty Photos are being shown and more school just nineteen of them are published down the man. As in he worked for at the time. The banks were joke order though was just six years old and Nine Hundred Sixty Eight is provided to i manage his estate is huge and ive been dealing with his photos ever since i met him i put together most of his books the photos my. Started. The pics images are Historical Documents which hold some surprises sometimes he visited places just before history was written before the graft in prague in early april Nine Hundred Sixty Eight at the all christian Peace Assembly just a week later the Student Leader was shot and critically wounded in berlin. The
photos show what was to become known as the Prague Spring and none of the pictures appeared inch down back then. But clarke is even nish to theyre not the images of the Prague Spring that are burned in our collective memories of the soviet tanks rolling down the streets rather there of the real Prague Spring like a few of the things that made the Spring Blossom Alexander Dubcek the reformer to the Press Freedoms People Reading newspapers on the street these the mention of. Robert levy it took twenty four trips to produce reppert tajs in one Nine Hundred Sixty Eight three of them talking divorce book which was celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of its founding. That was reason enough for shutdown to devote several illustrated stories to the city at the heart of the german auto industry. Fifty years on its also the reason this exhibition is being presented here i photojournalism from the year Nine Hundred Sixty Eight. Robert lay back wasnt
interested in ideologies or Political Parties he was interested in people and capturing them at just the right moment. The funeral of robert. Kennedy assassinated less than five years after his brother john f. Kennedy. Theres never been such a concentrated focus on a single year and i have to say that list i was a little skeptical since. Heidi what these kaleidoscopes like photo reports charges dont really stand up in a museum stoned might upset on its wife and. These photos werent originally taken to be displayed in a museum but the unusually large format prints made of the more. Theyre destined to become part of the collection at the const museum bourse book playbacks glossy
photos were shot almost entirely in Black And White but the photographer who was born in berlin in One Thousand Twenty Nine turned down assignments to cover wars. Isnt biased. I know that robot never sought Out War Situations Taht out of this but was he consciously avoided volatile events and see once said i dont need to photograph those horas i experienced enough of them during my youth hobbesian mind i didnt leave it. At the end of one Nine Hundred Sixty Eight conflict was brewing in Northern Ireland the violence between protestants and catholics known as the troubles threatened to break out into civil war earlier that year standard sent robert lee back to belfast the capital of Northern Ireland was plagued by high unemployment and labor experts years showed the precarious nature of the situation that. These are the exhibitions only color photos displayed right
at the end they usher in the era of Color Photography and as such they also exemplify Nine Hundred Sixty Eight a year of Protest Problems and progress. Player. The world is an uproar everything is up for grabs artists are protesting too with Subversive Radical Performances and happenings an exhibition at the Lunatic Foreman i often looks back at art in One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Eight billion this is new in itself then can grab away with impunity groping womens breasts as well coming to the unease on Taste Funny Exploit created the p. C. Assertive bold provocative characteristic of Nine Hundred Sixty s. Artists and also off their art. Education is what matters whether on the streets
the gallery or its University Towns revolution everything comes together in nineteen sixty and. Thats what were interested in showing in this exhibition is how early the art world picked up on issues which society hadnt yet contemplated and. Paul was in denial over such as the nazi history in west germany up six drastic means of expression for an equally drastic reality. Vietnam the Great American trauma. Images of war penetrate the intl of home i place. It shows how revolutionaries stick together. On the reality of china a mighty mild. Place
the battle on german streets against Rule Emergency Legislation and the Detested State Machinery is being forced on the painted canvas playing. The nazi punks of the new Federal Republic should be washed away not. The Public Prosecutor has judges whose hands were probably keen that jumps. Him and trauma we see a premonition of the terrorism of the nineteen seventies in this painting. To find against representatives of the oppressive capitalist operator this. Basically artists were the trailblazers that used art as a medium of change for people to change their way of thinking. Alternately the idea was that artists become activists that art is just a thoroughfare
a way of changing things in society or done. Stop painting demands the painter. Breaking with tradition is theme in hand life is not and everyone is an artist is how joseph boy saw it and so he set off sweeping the streets of burning. A philosophy an artist a politician and a conservationist he was the guru of a holistic view of art in this event a provocative collective Hitler Salute has hefty consequences is punched in the face and of course turns it into a lot. His use now on the liberated body free sexuality and female amounts of patients. As in the legendary performance of. Unpaid viable in vienna the subservient man
provocation which writes out history. Which the subservient woman as an object Fetish Slave American artist brutally bring reality to the center of attention. The show in aspen is exhibiting the adam god of the revolution flash. Of the future in the low take forum we have been attained to the art of Nine Hundred Sixty Eight as a submissive force. Didnt just react to political uproar they were active participants and their works helped to change the sciences. For women Nine Hundred Sixty Eight was a pivotal year they came out of the kitchens and found their voice sisters started doing it for themselves short shorter. Verily theyre
the micromini was a shocker the Fashion Statement was designed as such as a provocation of the fourth wall and attack on the establishment a symbol of liberated sexuality and the newfound competence of a young female revolutionary. Climate in intolerance became friends cloaked who looked into being people think of and it became clear to me a Book Making Doesnt Mind believed not finding that if you know people because while times and what memories we needed many skin you could see our backsides. You couldnt of course we got into lots of trouble at home do you think unbelievable that everyone got so upset how can you wear such a short skirt its indecent oh no she did. As long as it provoked the prudish moral ideas of their parents it was all right. But the real obstacles to emancipation
were and still are deeply rooted in the social role of women even the sixty eight generation realised that the female revolution needed to come a day and literally the women of Nine Hundred Sixty Eight left the action to the smart poster boys of the movement. The phones and it was a long time women werent just seen as the chicks of the. Revolutionaries i think right at the beginning women needed to break free from that they started off typing all the leaflets and making the coffee before they realized that something was wrong of course this is in the finest of us initiatives they willingly joined in with sexual liberation through like within the tory is german commune come you know i said there was a saying sleep with the same person twice and youre part of the establishment the flavor of antithesis of marriage and convention. The six Relevant Service that finished the Sexual Revolution of the sixtys just lived men. It was about enabling men to live promiscuously and many women was sold out to the new left in the name
of the revolution get involved otherwise youll bushwa is going to build a temple and that was one thing women didnt want to be that was their image from the fifties tied to the kitchen sink. And a plow had tried leaving talkin both on the m team and. The women of Nine Hundred Sixty Eight revolted against all that as well as the social pressure to be sexually available for the cos with patriarchal Men Taking Charge Historian Christina from holding back is even firmly convinced that the changes of Nine Hundred Sixty Eight were chiefly driven by women for her book. Sexy the other sixty eight she listened to long forgotten Audio Recordings from the one Nine Hundred Sixty s. Stored in the archives of the University Of Bonn Thirty Six Hundred hours of material in which men and women from all walks of life talk about their experiences which made clear how much the societal changes of the late sixtys impacted womens daily lives. And money revolutionizing the relationship between couples or the way
we raise children anything that affects peoples private lives and also exerts a great cultural influence in the long run five to two zero while their male counterparts could attend university and protest many young women had to abandon their studies as soon as they became. Mothers. Buy school because there was no childcare available and because men didnt. So the idea was ok then well help each other well create stretches well well take turns watching the kids and it became a dank happen right from the very stuff of life. Childcare and access to the pill helped women in their quest for emancipation finally they could decide for themselves whether they wanted to become pregnant or not another milestone on the road to selfdetermination came later in germany the campaign to abolish paragraph two Hundred Eighteen which made abortion a punishable offense women took to the streets demanding the right to choose but
the fight for equal rights continues a woman has governed germany for the last thirteen years progress is being made towards creating Gender Equality today women are assuming their rightful place in Government Ministries Parliament and in the boardroom but their success owes much to the women who paved the way in the one Nine Hundred Sixty s. And let. Them know how close. It was a decade of sex and drugs and rock n roll but in west germany and entirely unique Sonic Universe was developing. And. This is crossed back at the start of their career with the sound of krautrock. Also on the same can from cologne broke free from traditional song structures with their psychedelic sounds. Engine noise from the. Reachin also helped forge the new sound of the crowd. Were just let rip we develop the music we played it we waited to see what would happen next. Poser. Began exploring new musical horizons at the age of eighteen he was a member of craft and went on to form two of the most influential Crowd Rock Bands ever. Noyo in one Nine Hundred Seventy One. And harmonia in one Nine Hundred Seventy three. His bands rebelled against musical
conventions. In the late sixtys and early seventys we were all influenced by the spirit of fighting the establishment. Political and cultural. Legendary british radio d. J. John peel is said to have coined the term kraut rock in One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Eight. The pieces were epic full of improvisation and experimental Sounds Krautrock became a synonym for this new music coming out of germany. But one band style varied greatly from the next google for example were from the Free Jazz Scene and played psychedelic rock. From p. From hamburg combined ethereal sounds with Rocking Guitar Riffs government provided the vocal accompaniment. Then there was tender Rain Dream Founded in one Nine Hundred Sixty Seven and berlin they sought to create cosmic music. And it was a sheer cliff. This into the music audition. By the midnight hundred seventy s. Probably rock had pretty much sunk into oblivion then in the ninetys International Bands like oasis. To save b. N. And radiohead came out as fans and integrated krautrock elements into their music. Then when you travel the world these days you realise the term has become
a sign of quality. Its no longer tarnished with memories of german First World War soldiers the crowds. The crowds today probably rock is considered one of germanys most important contributions to pop culture history. In. The fiftys. From flower power to psychedelia and pop art Nine Hundred Sixty Eight was the year the world went from Black And White to color technicolor in fact. While important events were taking place in space and a small step for man became a giant leap for mankind people on earth had other things on their minds. The world around them had previously been muted monotone and conservative but then. Suddenly. The late one Nine Hundred Sixty saw an explosion of colors and shapes and one color in particular shone brighter than all the others. Are in such it was the i pop in color of a decade synonymous with flower power hippies and lsd. Bathrooms in living rooms now displayed a dizzying array of patterns used culture made its presence felt like never before and gave holmes a warm and sunny feeling hair grew every which way and fashion became far more colorful. But how did this happen. Heres one possible explanation. Holiday krishnas more on the search for new divo teams their quest for enlightenment and the color of their robes also caught on in central europe. Fascinated by Eastern Spirituality the beatles soon embarked on their hari krishna trip. And in the musical hair and acid trip inevitably leads to people singing ari krishna theres no escaping them. By the one Nine Hundred Seventy s. Orange was everywhere on face cream tubs in Dishwashing Liquid and soda pop. Even eating at the cafeteria like here at the german Publishing House was almost
a psychedelic experience. She today its hard to imagine enjoying your lunch with Something Like this hanging overhead. Though its decor by round up on top like these plastic chairs are now the design classics. Then in one Nine Hundred Seventy One the release of the film a clockwork orange pushed the limits even further and not just in terms of design. Rights right. By the late one Nine Hundred Seventy s. Orange had been transformed into Dog Westerners seeking The Meaning Of Life by the thousands to the point to us from india their Guru Rajneesh attracted followers with a mix of free love tantra and Group Therapy though eventually this collectors insanity did come to an end. So too does the hour of orange and bell by. Love and peace had gone mainstream and become a commodity there was just one thing left to do. I know toughness and darkness ruled supreme the early one Nine Hundred Eighty s. Were a bleak time in germany black was the new orange the harsh realities of life had caught up to us close it wasnt so sad and. Thats carried on. And you just found out the bank. Thanks the best sixty eight special and want to groovy trip it was the be joining us next week when we return to the twenty First Century the
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