Generation Golf. Eine Inspektion
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Generation Golf is a witty, sharply observed inventory of West German youth in the late twentieth century, written by journalist Florian Illies. He takes as his subject the cohort born roughly between the mid-1960s and early 1970s, the first to grow up entirely within the consumer comfort of the postwar republic.
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Through brand names, pop songs, television, holidays, toys, and everyday habits, Illies reconstructs the rituals and anxieties that shaped their childhood and early adulthood. The tone is playful and ironic, mixing cultural commentary with personal recollection. The result reads as both a portrait of a generation and a comic review of its values, and the title has since become a shorthand for that group.
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