Berlin 1968: Demonstration against the war in Vietnam

The day before, Rudi Dutschke opened the International Vietnam Congress in the lecture hall of the University of Technology with 5,000 participants from France, England, Italy, Scandinavia and the USA, including numerous prominent scientists and artists. Hans Werner Henze helped to organise the congress and made a significant contribution to attracting participants from France, England, Italy, Scandinavia and the USA.

He recalls in his autobiography:
"Bishop Scharf, Professor Gollwitzer and I went to the Senator of the Interior to obtain the lifting of the ban on demonstrations, without which there would have been bloody clashes. On the morning of 18 February 1968, a Sunday, I took to the streets with 5,000 demonstrators, arm in arm with Luigi Nono and the Roman painter Titina Maselli (who lived in Paris), a beautiful Communist from a good old Communist family. Peter and Gunilla Weiss were there, Reinhard Lettau, the painters Arroyo and Timner, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Berlin and foreign academics, otherwise quite few artists."

Henze, Hans Werner. Reiselieder mit böhmischen Quinten: Autobiographische Mitteilungen 1926-1995, Frankfurt (Fischer) 1996, p. 291.