Images - Transformations of Culture and Consumption

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11.	All Advertisements in Vain (1965) During the 1960s, young people experimented with new types of lifestyles and experiences. In doing so, however, they encountered consistent opposition and attacks from members of the older generation....
12.	Pierre Brice as Winnetou and Lex Barker as Old Shatterhand – Filming "Winnetou 3" in Yugoslavia (1965) The enormous success of the West German-Yugoslavian-French co-production “The Treasure in the Silver Sea” (1962) marked the beginning of a whole series of films based on the popular novels of
13.	Production of the Wartburg 353 (1966) The Wartburg 353, designed in the mid-1960s, was an attractive car for its day. In its early years, it was even exported to the Netherlands and Great Britain. Although engineers had plans for the....
14.	Shopping Excursion (1967) Over the course of the 1960s, young people began to wield increasing financial clout as consumers. Various industries saw them as a target group for certain products, and companies adapted to their....
15.	The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) on Potsdamer Platz in West Berlin (1965-68) Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was the former director of the Dessau Bauhaus. In 1938, he emigrated to the U.S., where his successful career continued. In....
16.	The TV Show "Der Beat Club" (1967) During the 1960s, beat music and rock 'n' roll, once the rallying point of a youthful minority, became part of a commercially-mediated West German mass culture that increasingly infiltrated all forms....
17.	The "documenta IV" Exhibition in Kassel (1968) During the Third Reich, Germany was cut off from current developments in the international....
18.	Joseph Beuys with Wolfgang Wiens and Claus Peymann (May 1, 1969) Joseph Beuys was a sculptor, performance artist, printmaker, and art teacher who first achieved fame in the 1960s for works that were shockingly innovative (or....
19.	Stuttgart Expressways (c. 1970) The ideal of the car-friendly city shaped efforts to rebuild large West German cities in the postwar era. As part of this movement, inner-city expressways were extended and connected to the country's....
20.	Members of the GDR National Swim Team, which Competed against the U.S. Team in an International Meet in Leipzig (1971) For the GDR, excellence in sports was a means of securing prestige on an international level, and athletes were thus regarded as “diplomats in tracksuits.” Starting in 1968, the GDR sent its own....
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