Abstract (eng)
This work is based on the method of historical image analysis and discusses the thesis that coffee comercials changed in the 20th century as well as the coffee consumption. A relation between these two processes is assumed. During the examined period, the consumer good coffee developed from a desireable luxury to an everyday-luxury. At the beginning, coffee maent both, pure coffee and surrogates. At the end of the 20th century, though, pure coffee widely displaced the cheaper alternatives, which went along with the improvement of the economy and the changes on the coffee market. Meanwhile, also the outward appearance of coffee changed: surrogates could be bought in bars or smaller portions; coffee in beans or ground, in packeges or, later, canned as powder or granulates or ready-made and cooled in tins. Parallel to the increasing assortment, the appearence of coffee and its consumers changed in the commercials. The posters in this work were analysed according to the relation between coffee and surrogates, the picture of gender roles, the charakter of the exotic and the impact of Americanization. The outcome: 1. coffee displaces surrogates, 2. a young, dynamic and self-determined type of consumer displaces the caring housewife and mother, 3. tradition and the attraction of nevelty play an important role in the marketing at the same time and 4. Americanization has influences on the changes of the advertisements as well as on the consumption of coffee. This work also discusses the problem, that the direct influences of posters on consumption cannot be reconstructed with certainty, and presents possible solution statements.