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The 1950s was the sixth decade of the 20th century and lasted from 1950 to 1959.
Events
- Reconstruction after World War II , post-war Germany , post-war Great Britain , occupied post-war Austria .
- Rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany , peace and women's movement against rearmament and nuclear weapons , 58s .
- Start of European unification ( Treaty of Rome 1957).
- Economic miracle in West Germany, Austria, Italy, France and Japan.
- Arrival of the first guest workers in Germany and other European countries.
- First high phase of the Cold War with the following crises and proxy wars :
- Korean War
- Middle East continually hotspot
- Indochina War
- De-Stalinization
- Hungarian popular uprising
- Decolonization begins
- Sputnik shock
- Occupation of Tibet by Chinese troops.
Cultural history
Typical living room furniture with kidney-shaped table
Kitchen clock designed by Max Bill for Junghans
Typical party snack: Hawaii toast
literature
- Group 47
- John Steinbeck : Beyond Eden
- Ernest Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea
- Günter Grass : The tin drum
- Martin Walser : Marriages in Philippsburg
- Max Frisch : Homo faber
- Bertolt Brecht : The business of Mr. Julius Caesar
- Heinrich Böll : The bread of the early years
- Uwe Johnson : Conjectures about Jakob
- Jean-Paul Sartre : The Devil and God
- Eugène Ionesco : The bald singer
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt : The Old Lady's Visit
- Beat generation
- Jack Kerouac : On the go
architecture
watch TV
- Current camera
- ARD
- ARD television lottery
- The international morning pint
- German television broadcasting
- Schölermann family
- Fury
- as far as your feet take you
- daily News
- Tick-tack quiz
- What am I?
Movie
Relevant currents
Individual contributions internationally
Individual contributions national
- The frog with the mask
- The cold heart
- The subject
- Roses for the prosecutor
- Black Forest girl
- The heather is green
- The engagement in Zurich
- The story of little Muck
- Dogs, do you want to live forever
- Buddenbrooks
- Berlin - corner of Schönhauser ...
Oscar winner
- 1950: The man who wanted to rule
- 1951: Everything about Eva
- 1952: An American in Paris
- 1953: The largest show in the world
- 1954: Damned for all eternity
- 1955: The fist in the neck
- 1956: Marty
- 1957: Around the world in 80 days
- 1958: The bridge on the Kwai
- 1959: Gigi
Others
Personalities
Protagonist of the economic miracle: Ludwig Erhard
politics
- Konrad Adenauer
- Willy Brandt
- Fidel Castro
- Mao Zedong
- Kim Il-sung
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Francisco Franco
- Elizabeth II , Queen of England
- Ludwig Erhard
- Charles de Gaulle
- Theodor Heuss
- Heinrich Luebke
- David Ben-Gurion
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Erich Ollenhauer
- Carlo Schmid
- Kurt Schumacher
- Joseph Stalin
- Walter Ulbricht
design
music
- Bing Crosby
- Chet Atkins
- Chet Baker
- Maria Callas
- Johnny Cash
- Chuck Berry
- Miles Davis
- Bill Haley
- Peter Kraus
- Little Richard
- Roy Orbison
- Charlie Parker
- Buddy Holly
- Carl Perkins
- Elvis Presley
- Jerry Reed
- Frank Sinatra
- Advice pack
Movie
- Clark Gable
- Humphrey Bogart
- Marlon Brando
- Gary Cooper
- James Dean
- María Félix
- Errol Flynn
- Conny Froboess
- Johannes Heesters
- Audrey Hepburn
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Bob Hope
- Pedro Infante
- Grace Kelly
- Hildegard Knef
- Ruth Leuwerik
- Marilyn Monroe
- Jorge Negrete
- Heinz Rühmann
- Romy Schneider
- John Wayne
- Billy Wilder
theatre
literature
society
Sports
- Sepp Herberger
- Pelé
- Garrincha
- Alfredo Di Stéfano
- Helmut Rahn
- Fritz Walter
- Hans Günter Winkler
- Juan Manuel Fangio
See also
literature
- Sabine Bode: The forgotten generation . Children of war break their silence . Piper, Munich 2004, 288 pages, ISBN 978-3-492-24403-9 .
- Karl D. Bracher, Theodor Eschenburg, Joachim C. Fest, Hans-Peter Schwarz: History of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 2: The Adenauer era 1949–1957 . 541 pp., Deutsche Verlagsanstalt 1981, ISBN 3-7653-0328-3
- Lottemi Doormann: Emancipation against peacefulness. In: Ruth-Esther Geiger, Anna Johanneson (Ed.): Not peaceful and not quiet. Polemic pamphlets from women on violence at war. Munich 1982.
- Günter Helmes : "We lost the war [...], but we have to lose it if our country is to find its soul again." The FRG feature film production in 1958 as an expression of a 'soul landscape' . In: Flandziu 4, H. 2, 2013, pp. 65–99. ISBN 978-3-941120-12-9
- Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk: The eventful decade. History of the GDR from 1949 to 1961 . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2003, 164 pages, ISBN 3-89331-521-7 .
- Axel Schildt : Arrival in the West. An essay on the success story of the Federal Republic . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, 223 pages, ISBN 3-10-070210-7 .
- Dieter Selk, Dietmar Walberg, Astrid Holz: Settlements from the 1950s - modernization or demolition? Methodology for making decisions about demolition, modernization or new construction in settlements from the 1950s. Final report. Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning -BBR-, Bonn (sponsor), Working Group for Contemporary Building e. V., Kiel (executive body) 2008. ISBN 978-3-8167-7481-5 .
- Kurt Sontheimer: The Adenauer Era. Foundation of the Federal Republic . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1991, 1. A, ISBN 3-423-34024-X .
- SPIEGEL-Verlag: The 50s. From rubble land to economic miracle . SPIEGEL special issue 1/2006 and its contents .
- Trude Unruh (Ed.): Trümmerfrauen - Biographies of a generation betrayed . Klartext, Essen 1987, ISBN 3-88474-420-8 .
Web links
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