A stadium as a parable of sport: the floating lightness suggested by the tent roof on September 1, 1972 is often only achieved with tremendous effort.
Image: Witters
50 years later, the Munich Olympic Stadium commemorates the project to show a different Germany: colourful, cheerful, free from demons. Until the attack tore people out of a midsummer night’s dream.
Dhe man in the picture looks like he’s about to speed off towards the future. The motorcycle: sparkling chrome and sky-blue paintwork, the helmet perfectly matched in colour. Under the visor: a look that radiates determination and anticipation. And then there’s this suit. Shimmering silver, almost glowing in the sun, with angular folds and shadows, an outfit with which you could go on a space trip instead of on the Bavarian autobahn.
It is said that Otl Aicher gladly took the opportunity to sit on the rattling BMW for a ride with the “Blue Angels”, the police officers who accompanied VIPs at the 1972 Olympic Games. It is a perfidious cruelty of the Fateful that for this Aicher, who not only transported the Munich games into another time with his design, who also planned to do the same for all of Germany, and not just in terms of design, that for this Otl Aicher the future was already closed in 1991 The end was because he was hit by a motorcycle at home in Allgäu while reversing with his lawn tractor.
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