GER100 Lecture Notes - Benno Ohnesorg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Georg Kiesinger
16 Mar 2013
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Nov. 30, 1966: grand coalition cdu/spd under kurt georg kiesinger: was a previous nazi. From 1967 on: student unrest and rise of left-wing apo (extra-parliamentary opposition: the time of youth movement/ hippies / 68-ers . June 2,, 1967: killing of benno ohnesorg during anti-shah protest: many youth didn"t believe that democratic nations should be supporting a dictator in. Iran: benno ohnesorg was shot by an officer, who wasn"t even on patrol, similar situation to kent state university in 1970 in opposition to nixon"s decision to go to cambodia. Sept oct 1969: steep decline of ndp; end of grand coalition move to left with spd/fdp coalition under willy brandt. It was in this atmosphere that german artists such as joseph beuys, Gerhard richter, sigmar polke and anselm [kiefer] as well as filmmakers such as wim wenders and. Rainer werner fassbinder attempted to recapture a sense of post-war german identity. 1970: willy brandt at warsaw ghetto memorial.
