Hot autumn

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Hot autumn is a metaphor that is often used for different things . The alliteration hot autumn literally refers to a warm seasonal course and is of importance for agriculture, especially fruit and viticulture . As a meteorological phenomenon, a hot autumn than Indian summer and Indian summer known. The heat is metaphorically related to an escalating (often political) conflict . The announcement of a hot autumn is sometimes used as a threat.

Examples of usage of terms

  • In 1960, the catchphrase hot autumn was used to describe the problem of the West German economy, which was overheating as a result of the economic miracle.
  • The mass strikes and student protests of 1969 in Italy are also referred to as "hot autumn" in political science.
  • In 1970, “Hot Autumn” was used to describe the likely collective bargaining disputes in the West German metal industry. Before that, the songwriter Hanns-Dieter Hüsch had published his song “hot autumn” on the LP Carmina Urana in the same year , which refers to the Russian October Revolution of 1917 , among other things .
  • Occasionally the term is also used for the German autumn 1977.
  • In 1983 “Hot Autumn” was voted word of the year . At the time, the term was used to describe the protests of the peace movement against rearmament in the context of NATO's double decision . Also , the mirror used in the issue 35/1983 of 29 August 1983 'Hot Autumn "as the title.
  • The term “hot autumn” is also frequently used in the context of student protests against the education system at European universities in November 2009.

The term is also used in advertising for autumn discounts .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hot autumn . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1960, pp. 23 ( online ).
  2. ^ Social protest and political violence in Italy and the FRG in the 1960s and 1970s , report from a conference from 21.-22. February 2008 in Trient , on: H-Soz-u-Kult, March 31, 2008
  3. ↑ Title Article by Christian even in the period from June 19, 1970
  4. ↑ Duden
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel 35/1983. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  6. ^ Stern : Education strike: Hot autumn at Germany's universities