Shrill fashion, plastic music, New Wave, and Dallas. The Cold war, nuclear weapons, AIDS. Rubik’s cube, Commodore 64, and Michael Jackson – no decade has been as varied as the 80s. A Museum revels in memories.
A Design classic: The telephone Beocom 2000 Bang Olufsen
Today, who is around 50 years old, still recalls perfectly strange Fönfrisuren, music such as plastic buckets, shoulder pads and neon colors. He also remembers the peace movement, the dying Forest, and the first Greens in the Bundestag.
The decade celebrated in front of an incomprehensible threat scenario, by nuclear power and a possible nuclear war, many large and small revolutions. The cultural legacy of this period is still felt today.
The state Museum for art and cultural history Oldenburg is dedicated in a special exhibition at the culture of the eighties. The Exhibition “Madonna, Manta, The Fall Of The Wall. The eighties in the Federal Republic of Germany” promises the visitors with around 350 exhibits – “memorable Flashback moments”.
Come true Science Fiction
Almost a miracle: The first phones without a cable
Even if we laugh today about the first wireless giant phones, for the people of that time, the technical innovations a reality were to become Science Fiction. Computer, labs usually found only in research or intelligence services were located, were in the households – although they had been deprived of any Use for domestic use.
Computer and communication technology is also an important part of the Oldenburg exhibition is also interactive: visitors can put on the original computer and game consoles and games like in the 1980s.
Policy and “Nirvana”
Also one of the greatest journalistic scandals of the 20th century. Century, not, is missing in this exhibition promises to be the curator of the exhibition, Dr. Michael Reinbold: “is Presented, for example, a Konrad Kujau fake Hitler diary.”
The leather jacket by Udo Lindenberg, which he gave once of the GDR state and party chief Erich Honecker, is issued or rare original relics to a Nirvana concert in Oldenburg in 1989.
Fashion trends of the Eighties
Hideous? The 80s fashion quotes by designers again and again
Carrot pants, shoulder pads, headbands, wide waist belt, All in neon colors and Metallic tones, and this includes a mullet-cut men or a boosted continuous wave at the ladies.
It is a Lifestyle cult scenes from Popper to Punk developed – the Soundtrack to the Bands of the Neue Deutsche Welle or international Megastars such as Michael Jackson, Madonna or Prince.
The objects shown come from private lenders, public cultural institutions and the collection of the national Museum. To see the exhibition of 25. November 2018 to 24. February 2019 in the Oldenburg castle.