68s according to notes

A multimedia look back at an eventful time 50 years ago
© 2000 by Walter Westrupp - last additions 2022-04-05 16:56:38 h

 

Walter Westrupp, part of the legendary German psychedelic folk duo Witthüser & Westrupp, takes you on a very personal, humorous and self-deprecating journey back in time to the late 60s and early 70s. With texts, stories, photos, videos and music clips, he recalls • hippies • layabouts • communards • krautrock • the international Essen song days IEST 68 • •  Podiumclub Essen • Love & peace-festival Fehmarn 70 • trips, dreams, songs of the dead, their Jesus-mushroom- opera • Rolf Ulrich Kaiser & his entourage • the invention of the sensational tea bag lifting machine TEHOMA • the concert for electric coffee grinder with rock band and symphony orchestra and much more.

He says about this time:
• we were researchers, astronauts, pirates, globetrotters in an unexplored, almost virgin environment ...
• at that time we realized ourselves through actions, through music, and we did our things ...
• we weren't missionaries - not even revolutionaries - we only did what we enjoyed ourselves ...
• we lived as a small group in a parallel world ...
• we were young people who moved away from the dusty ideas of parents, society, politics - who looked for our own way off the beaten track...

... on the way to ourselves.

sorry: its only in German