50 years of the Wyhl anti-nuclear protest - Historical posters of the environmental movement on the Upper Rhine

In February 1975, the small town of Wyhl am Kaiserstuhl in southern Baden made history. More than 25,000 people, including Kaiserstuhl farmers and winegrowers with their families, but also students from the urban milieu, occupied the construction site of a planned nuclear power plant on February 23 and held it for nine months - the beginning of a resistance that provided important impetus for forms of action for the environmental movement in the Federal Republic of Germany.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the occupation of the construction site, the Schönau electricity works are showing a selection of posters in their store in Freiburg that were created in the context of Wyhl and the anti-nuclear protests of the 1970s. They document a diverse picture of protest culture, whose catchy slogans and humorously critical designs take us back to a time when people were educating and mobilizing in public spaces.