Schauplätze - Frankfurt in den 50er Jahren

The Institute for Urban History invites you to travel back in time to the 1950s with the photo exhibition "Schauplätze - Frankfurt in den 50er Jahren" until the beginning of November. Accompanying the exhibition, the book of the same name has been published, which delves even more comprehensively into this decade in the Main metropolis. In addition to numerous photos, Michael Fleiter and Tobias Picard have compiled some interesting accompanying texts and also included documents, newspaper clippings and advertising posters from the period. The result is a fascinating and extremely entertaining document of the times, which impressively shows the changes the city has undergone over the last sixty years.

Many places that still characterize the cityscape today can be recognized here, although there are often major differences from today's appearance. This is true for the streets around the Eschersheimer Tor as well as for the Kornmarkt car park at the Hauptwache or the square around the Kaufhof. In addition, there are also real surprises, especially for younger Frankfurters, such as the fact that the Dippemess was held on the Römerberg until 1968 or that people still fished in the Main until the mid-1950s.

The mixture of pictures and accompanying texts makes this book an extremely informative, but also entertaining journey back in time to the 1950s. Even if you don't belong to the generation that witnessed this era in Frankfurt itself, this look at an important part of the city's history, infused with a lot of nostalgia, is enormously exciting. The book shows in a very vivid way that a city like Frankfurt is subject to constant change and has to adapt to the socio-political circumstances of the time in order to be able to function.

So if you want to experience the city in the 50s, if you want to see how Frankfurt has changed over the last six decades and if you also want to learn more about life here during that time, you should definitely take a walk to these "scenes". Absolutely recommendable!

An article by Frankfurt-Tipp