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Lädt ... Heißer Sommer (1974)von Uwe Timm
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This was obviously written from direct personal experience and before the dust had settled, and it's a very vivid evocation of the excitement of those times, and the width of the generation gap that was opening between the students and their parents. He has a lot of fun showing us what the parents' middle-class lifestyle looks like from the perspective of a young person home for a couple of days (oh, that German furniture of the sixties!). He also enjoys mocking the pomposity and incomprehension of the university authorities.
But it's not an uncritical account: Timm clearly feels that the students were dissipating a lot of their revolutionary energy in undirected and often pointless actions. With their comfortable middle-class families behind them to pick up the pieces, most have only a limited stake in the revolution (he couldn't know then how many 68-ers would turn into ultra-respectable establishment figures later, but he seems to have had at least an inkling). He deliberately contrasts the studdents' situation with that of people a generation earlier facing Nazi terror, or with that of industrial workers for whom a strike means a real sacrifice for their families.
As you might expect from a novel of the time, Timm's ideas about gender are not quite up to modern scrutiny, although he does make a couple of gestures in the right direction, as when he describes the needless unpleasantness involved in procuring an abortion when one of Ullrich's girlfriends becomes pregnant, or when he has Ullrich notice the way the crowd at a demo stops listening when a male speaker is followed by a woman at the microphone. But apart from that, young women come and go in the plot almost unnoticed, and they rarely get to talk about politics or whatever they are studying.