1968

by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Rüdiger Dammann

Book by unknown

255 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Cohn-Bendit was born in Montauban, France, to German-Jewish parents who had fled Nazism in 1933. He spent his childhood in Montauban. He moved to Germany in 1958, where his father had been a lawyer since the end of the war. He attended the Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim near Frankfurt, a secondary school for children of the upper middle class. Being officially stateless at birth, when he reached the age of 14 he chose German citizenship, in order to avoid conscription.
Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (born 4 April 1945) is a German politician, active in France and Germany, and was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France. He was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge (French for "Danny the Red", because of both his politics and the color of his hair). He is currently co-president of the group European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament, becoming "Dany le Vert" (French for "Danny the Green", because of his new fight for ecology).
In 2010, he was involved in founding JCall, advocacy group based in Europe to lobby the European parliament on foreign policy issues concerning the Middle East.

Reviews

[Laura Barke]

„Aber offenbar waren wir überzeugend. Manche, die unsere Revolution fürchteten, haben möglicherweise stärker an sie geglaubt als wir selber.“

Für jede, die einen inneren Hippie in sich trägt und besser verstehen will, wieso die Zeit zwischen 1960 und 1970 einen so starken Einfluss auf Politik, Wertewandel, Aktivismus, Kultur, Musik und vieles mehr hatte.
Das Buch besteht aus einzelnen Essays, manchmal wiederholt es sich auch etwas, teilweise spannend und erzählend, teilweise werden aber auch nur historischer Ereignisse aufgezählt. Ein gewisses Grundwissen wird vorausgesetzt, was Geschichte, Politik und manchmal auch Philosophie angeht.

[Dani · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really good introduction in the history of the 60s and 70s, of course focusing on the developments that took place in Germany. I didn't know much about the period and found the book very interesting!
It contains essays by several authors who are connected to the movements and the central figures of the era in one way or another. There's also a number of "info boxes" about different topics, e.g. the Cultural Revolution in China or Beate Uhse and her business...