European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Shift from politics to self fulfilment West Germany s Post peace movement generation syjame3m. Markham new York times Iddle classiest germans in her teens and Early 20s Are repudiating Many of the rebellious Anli establish men values hat gave birth to the to fist Grean party and led he Campaign against stationing american missiles in their country three years ago. According to professors teachers poll takers and the Young people themselves Many members of this new generation have resumed to conservative values and above All prize individual performance not collective protest. Their Emblem is Boris Becker the Money making apolitical 18-year-old Tennis Star not Petra Kelly 36, one of the founders of the Green party and an anti nuclear activist we re still rebels against our teachers and most of our teachers nowadays Are left Wing oriented and progressive said Beale Lachmann. 17, a Hamburg High school student who Hopes to become a doctor. They Wear sandals norwegian Wool sweaters beards Long hair. So we re Corning in elegant clothes and reject their Green  in Munich. Helmut Empl 22. A history student at Ludwig Maximilian University said the Young firebrands who Shook campuses in 19e3 and went on to found the greens had left a legacy of disappointment. The change in  he said came about because the 66 generation failed in what it Sel of to do the world is much the same As ii Ever  "1 Don l have the courage to say that 1 can change the world Empl added Al i t a & Jwj f appt a Green party s Pel k Ltd but i think i can establish myself in this society. If i want 1o be successful and i do i have to work at something and if that s not important there s not much Point in living in ills world in the Munich suburb of Uncle reaching Uta Hessler 18, a High school student who Hopes to study theology said the no Mure slogan of a few years Back had died. Moss people at school take the position that if i really want something i can gel it she said. I Don t know anyone who does t see any perspective a  in ills heavily Middle class country he symptoms of a possibly momentous shift away from political engagement and toward private fulfilment Are Many. High school teachers and University professors report that their students Are hard working and polite. Churches report rising attendance by the Young. Dancing schools Are popular and tradition minded University fraternities Are respectable again bars and discotheques Are imposing dress codes that exclude the sloppily garbed and the ill shorn. The girls Are turning More and More to skirts instead of pants and looking More feminine said Monsarrat Bande a boutique owner in the soul hem town of Singen. The boys Are More elegant wearing a carefully selected jacket or shirt to a particular pair of pants or la. They Era even wearing suits at 10 and 19." in trend setting cities such As West Berlin and Munich the in places Are no longer Down Al the heels cafes but Glass and Chrome bars that sell mixed drinks and have names such As the Supples inn a new hangout on the Kurfurst Tendam in Berlin. The seminal political event Lor Many Young Wesl germans was the failure of the Campaign to Slop the deployment of . Medium Range nuclear weapons in West Germany and other countries of the North Atlantic treaty organization. For most the Campaign was their Llrath political experience and a highly discouraging one. We did something said Stefl Battelini 20. A Bonn University student recalling the demonstrations Here again so Mussle deployment. We were 300,000. And then came the news on the radio that the missiles were coming. One did t become More Radical one became totally  the oos coalition that styled itself the West German peace movement has disbanded. The deployment of american Pershing ii missiles was accomplished without serious protest and the imminent arrival of ground launched cruise missiles has stirred Little interest i decided this year that i did l want to be a peace bureaucrat said Dieter Wulf 24, a psychology student at the free University in Wesl Berlin who had been deeply involved in the Campaign against the missiles. I be come to understand that mass movements Are Short term and Ai Best can Only attain partial Success Eugen Kaufmann 27, just completed his medical studies at Frankfurt University and had Span considerable a Symbol of apolitical achievement Tennis Champ Boris Betker. Lime Over the last few years organizing rallies for the greens Over the missile Issue. I came to the Point where i just did l want to go on talking about peace and other issues and see so Little of our discussion turned into effective action he said. Like others Kaufmann named Boris Becker As a Symbol of  for the Post peace movement  Boris Becker is not a political person he said. He s not talking about pollution he s playing Tennis and he s winning like mad. He s a kind of american dream made True Hera by a  the turn toward individual achievement has been Given a push by an Uncertain world Economy and a tight Job Market. For poorer University students pressures were stepped up three years ago when Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Center right government adopted legislation obliging them to pay Back Cost of living subsidies. The pendulum had already started to swing Back Ullh the Oil crisis when the students realized that they weren t going to inherit Paradise on Earth said Wolfgang Seel a former Rector of bochum University. Most of the University professors have wondered away from leftist ideology. You find this leftism today mostly among High school  if the conservative trend is consolidated among Wesl German youth some political analysis say they believe ii could weaken the survival chances of the ecology minded anti nato Green party whose activists tend to be in their late 20s or in heir 30s. Founded in 1979, the greens managed four years later to secure representation in parliament but they lace an Uphill struggle to remain there in elections Eamy next year. Vet several researchers cautioned that the Shilt in life styles has not entailed a rejection of All the political altitudes inherited from the generation that touched off the student upheavals of 1968. Elisabeth Noelle Neumann head of the Allensbach polling organisation noted that in a poll in december of 2.217 Young people 25 percent of those aged 16 to 20 expressed sympathy Lor the greens and 71 Peconi said they sympathized with one of the three established parties 28 percent with the rightist Christian democrats 5 percent with the other member of the Bonn coalition the centrist free democrats and 38 percent with the left of censer social democrats. Dealer Roth who Heads a Mannheim polling organization said that the altitudes of younger West germans remained relatively progressive but that this was a mainly verbal stance not supported by a willingness to engage in political action. Monday january 27, 1936 the stars and stripes Page 13