Hamburg’s Urban Development in the 1970s and 1980s
The Climax and Decline of Utopia Ottensen – Industrial Wastelands, Car Repair Shops, and a lot of Space “This is our House” – Freedom in the Hanseatic City Kampnagel: Art likes Freedom The City should be Clean Again – Neoliberal Urban Development
Dennis Kraus
Free spaces
Carsten Heinze
The Phenomenon of Graffiti
Graffiti as youth (sub) culture – Forms and elements of adolescent communitarisation
The Phenomenon of Graffiti as an ageing Youth (sub) culture: Historicisation, Biography and Identity Formation between Resistance and Art Youth, youth culture, subculture, youth (sub) culture, a “scene” as a specific phase of life, and style orientation in the horizon of late/postmodern societies Pictures (in) a city: Hamburg and the graffiti Youth (sub) culture and graffiti in Hamburg: characteristics, elements and public discourses A brief outlook
Dennis Kraus
A Scene Emerges
The first central point of contact Dammtor Saturday lunchtime – that was our appointment The world was yours Dammtor Corner continues to grow A second spot comes up
Mathias Becker
One Party and 14 Arrests
Serial Offender
Dennis Kraus
The City’s Bomber (Part 1)
Who’s Who?
Dennis Kraus
The second wave
Sylvia Necker
When Utopias are Lost
The concrete stayed in Steilshoop, and the writers came.
Dennis Kraus
Colourful Concrete, Rough Jargon
Colours and Violence
The City’s Bomber (Part 2)
Only one direction – forward
KP Flügel
Searching for Clues
Reflective views from youth workers, museum staff, and the media
“… what pleasurable moments the inscribing of the environment can provide” “Nobody had thought about painting their whole life” Finally famous! “Expression of a new youth cult: kids breaking out of their everyday life, looking for adventure …” “Adventure or thrill-seeking decreases the better people get, and the older they get” “Hamburg’s wild writers have become tame – away from illegality” Exhibiting with risk. “… with one foot in the grave” Graffiti as a cultural phenomenon beyond self-enamoured theorising
Mathias Becker
A Gym becomes an Open-Air Gallery
Friend and foe
Dennis Kraus
The Ahoi
Kathleen Göttsche & Lars Klingenberg
Sprühen=Leben
The Power of OZ lies in the Details
Christian Luda
Just a Part of the Culture
Punks, poppers, pioneers “Wild Style” and the breakdance wave Something is going on! Hamburg City gets started
Dennis Kraus
Documentation, Publishing, Commercialisation
The first magazines appear The first graffiti magazines from Hamburg The scenes are independent More trendy shops open
