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The American evangelist Billy Graham held several revival meetings – so-called crusades – in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Many thousands of Germans came to hear him. This article explores the reasons for Graham’s success in the Federal Republic in the context of a transatlantic religious and cultural history. Graham’s campaigns were embedded in the discourse of rechristianization and secularization after the end of the Second World War. Leading Protestant bishops such as Otto Dibelius and Hanns Lilje supported him. Furthermore, Graham’s campaigns played an important role in the West German culture of the Cold War as political stagings of the Free World consensus. In addition, the orchestration of the crusades reconciled religion and consumerism. Billy Graham’s crusades are a prism through which to explore important modernization processes in German Protestantism in the first two decades of the Federal Republic.
Am Beispiel Willy Brandts und seiner Beziehungen zu den USA wird deutsche und amerikanische Außenpolitik als transnationale Mediengeschichte interpretiert. Wie wirkte sich das besondere Verhältnis zu den USA auf den medialen und politischen Stil der Bundesrepublik aus? Dies wird erstens anhand der publizistischen Vermittlung von Brandts Reisen in die USA und der daraus resultierenden Imagebildung untersucht. Zweitens wird nach amerikanischen Einflüssen auf Brandts Inszenierungspraktiken und die damit verbundene Medienberichterstattung gefragt; dabei steht John F. Kennedy als Vorbild im Zentrum. Der Untersuchungsschwerpunkt liegt auf der Zeit von 1958 bis 1961.
In 1967, an exhibition opened in East Berlin that proposed, through an overload of images, to unite the histories of the Soviet Union and the GDR, and to confront international photography exhibitions produced in the United States and West Germany. More than the design principles and methods of this show, entitled Vom Glück des Menschen or On the Happiness of People, directly connect it with Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man exhibition, first presented at MoMA in New York in 1953. Its original title was in fact The Socialist Family of Man, and its designers addressed Steichen’s show directly with a scathing critique that echoes the critical discourse in general around The Family of Man. Ultimately, and despite the acknowledged relationship of the exhibition to its Western model, Vom Glück des Menschen also departed from it, crafting a narrative through photographs specifically designed for a socialist society under construction.