Ein Western für den SDS
Subtitle: Günter Peter Straschek
By: mit einem Text von Stefan Ripplinger ; einer Bildstrecke der Klasse Christopher Williams ; und Günter Peter Strascheks Produktionsunterlagen ; herausgegeben von Julia Friedrich
Contributors: Museum Ludwig
Publisher: Museum Ludwig; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Köln
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9783960984962
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Exhibitions; Notebooks, sketchbooks
Other titles: Western for the SDS :; Western für den SDS.; Western für den SDS. English.
Description: The Austrian Günter Peter Straschek belonged to the very first cohort of students at the Deutschen Film- und Fernsehakademie in West Berlin - alongside Hartmut Bitomsky, Harun Farocki and Helke Sander. He and many of his fellow students participated in the New Left movement, recording demonstrations and supporting campaigns. Straschek's Western für den SDS (1967/68, cinematography: Holger Meins) depicts the development of the left as a learning process for women, whose consciousness grows through the movement, but who continue to have no say in it. It was seized by the governing body of the film school in 1968, never screened and consequentially became legendary. Western für den SDS was finally given its premiere in 2018 at Museum Ludwig, as part of an exhibition dedicated to Straschek. This book publishes previously unreleased work material related to the film, which is a key work of the student movement and of Günter Peter Straschek's oeuvre.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

In German, with English version in supplement.

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Museum Ludwig, Köln, March 1, 2018 - July 15, 2018.