Lebensreform um 1900 und Alternativmilieu um 1980

Kontinuitäten und Brüche in Milieus der gesellschaftlichen Selbstreflexion im frühen und späten 20. Jahrhundert

Contributions by Viola Kohlberger Contributions by Sandra Funck Contributions by Kay Schweigmann-Greve Contributions by Bodo Mrozek Contributions by Gunter Mahlerwein Contributions by Ulrich Linse Contributions by Bernadett Bigalke Contributions by Joachim C. Häberlen Contributions by Sven Reichardt Contributions by Jörg Albrecht Contributions by Rosa Eidelpes Contributions by Eva Locher Contributions by Marcel Glaser Contributions by Ewgeniy Kasakow Contributions by Lutz Sauerteig Contributions by Nadine Zberg Contributions by Susanne Rappe-Weber Edited by Detlef Siegfried Edited by David Templin Contributions by

Book cover: Lebensreform um 1900 und Alternativmilieu um 1980

Extent: 429 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Cultural Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(October 2019)

ISBN: 9783847110125

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $50.00

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In dem alternativen Milieu der 1970er und 1980er Jahre fanden sich nicht wenige Praktiken, politische Ideen und habituelle Muster, die an die Lebensreformbewegung der Jahrhundertwende erinnerten: freie Sexualitat und Freikorperkultur, Siedlung auf dem Lande, alternative Haartracht und Bekleidung, Kritik der modernen Gesellschaft, Streben nach Gemeinschaft, politischer Radikalismus. Zugleich differieren die Kontexte dieser Kritik: Urbanisierung und industrielle Moderne auf der einen, postindustrieller und, auf der kulturellen Ebene, postmoderner Strukturbruch auf der anderen Seite. Die Beitragerinnen und Beitrager untersuchen, inwieweit sich diese Phanomene ahneln oder unterscheiden.


When the “hippies” emerged in the 1960s, contemporary observers spoke of a “new youth movement”, relating them to the Jugendbewegung of the early 20th century. In fact, there were quite a few practices, political ideas, and habitual patterns in the alternative milieu of the 1970s and 1980s, which seemed to be familiar from the Lebensreform (life reform) movement of the turn of the century: free sexuality and nudism, settlement in the countryside, alternative hairstyles and clothing, criticism of modern society, striving for community, and political radicalism. At the same time, the contexts of this critique differed: urbanization and industrial modernity on the one hand, postindustrial and, on the cultural level, postmodern “structural break” on the other. The volume examines the extent to which the two phenomena were similar, but also looks at differences, personal or institutional links and patterns of reception.

  • Contributions by Viola Kohlberger
  • Contributions by Sandra Funck
  • Contributions by Kay Schweigmann-Greve
  • Contributions by Bodo Mrozek
  • Contributions by Gunter Mahlerwein
  • Contributions by Ulrich Linse
  • Contributions by Bernadett Bigalke
  • Contributions by Joachim C. Häberlen
  • Contributions by Sven Reichardt
  • Contributions by Jörg Albrecht
  • Contributions by Rosa Eidelpes
  • Contributions by Eva Locher
  • Contributions by Marcel Glaser
  • Contributions by Ewgeniy Kasakow
  • Contributions by Lutz Sauerteig
  • Contributions by Nadine Zberg
  • Contributions by Susanne Rappe-Weber
  • Edited by Detlef Siegfried
  • Edited by David Templin
  • Contributions by