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1968: Era of Protest

 
As part of a series on the artistic legacy of the turbulent year 1968, the Academy of Arts in Berlin is displaying Michael Ruetz's photography from the era. His lively, yet poignant images from demonstrations personalize the social struggle in West Germany. The exhibition, entitled Students gathered at the Freie Universitaet in West Berlin on June 3, 1967, following the unexplained death of pacifist Benno Ohnesorg in a demonstration the previous day. The poster reads, A policeman hides his face during the June 3, 1967, protest march following the death of Benno Ohnesorg. Activist Rudi Dutschke held a speech at the Freie Universitaet in West Berlin on Oct. 20, 1967, in preparation for a protest against the Vietnam War. He was shot in the head and chest in April the following year, but survived the assassination attempt. The DGB labor union, Axel Springer publishing house and the Berlin Senate demonstrated on John F. Kennedy Square in West Berlin on Feb. 21, 1968, in response to previous anti-Vietnam War protests. Young and old joined in the May 12, 1968, demonstration in Bonn against the planned emergency act. Passed just a few days later, the act restricted constitutional rights in times of national emergency. Students had taken control of the rector's office at the Freie Universitaet in West Berlin on June 27, 1968. Socialists march down Wenceslas Square in central Prague on Aug. 25, 1968, days after Soviet troops occupied Czechoslovakia. The APO, or Demonstrators protest the noise caused by low flight exercises near the military airport in Hunsrueck, West Germany on July 11, 1969. Joseph Beuys (left) and Abraham David Christian box at the Documenta V art exhibition in Kassel, West Germany on Oct. 8, 1972. The art world deemed that year's exhibition the intellectually most brilliant one in Documenta history. Its curator was Switzerland's Harald Szeemann.
 

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