The student revolt, the sexual revolution, dealing with the national-socialist past in post-war germany, all of this has been widely thematized on many levels in recent years, research has been conducted and countless books and films have dealt with the “1968 movement”. One can say that by this time 1968 has become part of the founding myth of the Berlin Republic.
However, it is largely unknown that only a short time later, the ideas and demands of the 68ers should manifest themselves in another youth movement. In the early 1970s, thousands of young people in West Germany tried to establish self-administrated youth centers in their towns and cities in order to create their own meeting places for leisure activities without a compulsion to buy and without beeing controled by the parent generation.