Artist for Peace
Artists for Peace was the name of an initiative of West German artists founded in 1981 by Eva Mattes and others who supported the peace movement of the time and organized four major concerts under the same name until 1983: on September 12, 1981 in the Audimax of the University of Hamburg , on November 21, 1981 in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle , on September 11, 1982 in the Ruhrstadion in Bochum and on September 2 and 3, 1983 in the St. Pauli Stadium in Hamburg.
The 1982 Bochum concert was the largest of these. Over 200 artists performed in front of around 200,000 spectators, including Esther Bejarano , Harry Belafonte , Joseph Beuys , the Bots , Franz Josef Degenhardt , Katja Ebstein , Maria Farantouri , Gitte Hænning , André Heller , Hanns Dieter Hüsch , Udo Lindenberg , Miriam Makeba , Ulla Meinecke , Bill Ramsey and Konstantin Wecker .
One of the other speakers was Petra Kelly , who spoke on behalf of the Krefeld appeal . Curt Bois only spoke three sentences: “I am an old man. I've been through two world wars. I came here because I want to prevent a third world war from destroying you and your children. "
See also: Nuclear weapons in Germany
Web links
- Photo with Beuys and Lindenberg in one day's current affairs on Spiegel Online