{"id":11212,"date":"2026-01-21T07:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=11212"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:35:16","slug":"advertising-in-consumer-electronics","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/advertising-in-consumer-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"What 1960s consumer electronics advertising reveals about Luxembourg and its neighbours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"as-part-of-the-popkult60-project-matthias-hofer-a-doctoral-researcher-with-a-background-in-media-and-communication-history-is-exploring-how-companies-popularised-and-advertised-consumer-electronics\"\n    >\nAs part of the PopKult60 project, Matthias H\u00f6fer, a doctoral researcher with a background in media and communication history, is exploring how companies popularised and advertised consumer electronics in Germany, France and Luxembourg in the 1960s.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The consumer electronics Matthias H\u00f6fer is focusing on \u2013 radios, televisions, record players and cassette recorders \u2013 are goods which, apart from radio, \u201cwere not really common in households in the 1950s, but gradually gained in popularity over the next couple of decades.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertising for consumer electronics goods in the 1960s was intrinsically linked to the possibilities they offered people. This meant, for example, that advertisements for record players would depict a group of friends having a party listening to vinyl discs, while television sets would be advertised by showing people watching major sporting events such as the Olympics. So the ways in which media artefacts were advertised and marketed to consumers were related to the (media) content those consumers watched, recorded or listened to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"alignfull wp-block-unilux-blocks-gallery-carousel\">\n    <div class=\"swiper swiper-gallery\" aria-roledescription=\"carousel\" aria-label=\"A gallery of images\">\n        <!-- Swiper button Next & Prev -->\n        <div class=\"swiper-nav\">\n            <div class=\"swiper-nav__container\">\n                <div class=\"swiper-nav__grid\">\n                    <button type=\"button\" class=\"swiper-button-next\">\n                        <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"icon icon-outline icon--arrow-right \"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/themes\/unilux-theme\/assets\/images\/icons\/icons-outline.svg#icon--arrow-right\"><\/use><\/svg>                    <\/button>\n                    <button type=\"button\" class=\"swiper-button-prev\">\n                        <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"icon icon-outline icon--arrow-left \"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/themes\/unilux-theme\/assets\/images\/icons\/icons-outline.svg#icon--arrow-left\"><\/use><\/svg>                    <\/button>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <!-- swiper slides -->\n        <ul class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n            \n<li class=\"swiper-slide\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\">\n    <figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image swiper-slide__bg object-fit--contain\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"Matthias H\u00f6fer\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/14154033\/IMG_2268.jpg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/14154033\/IMG_2268-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/14154033\/IMG_2268-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/14154033\/IMG_2268-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/14154033\/IMG_2268.jpg 1500w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 50.00% 50.00%; 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font-family: &quot;object-fit: contain; object-position: 50.00% 50.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 16\/9; object-fit: contain; width: 100%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>    <\/figure><\/li>        <\/ul>\n\n        <!-- Swiper pagination -->\n        <div class=\"swiper-pagination\">\n            <div class=\"swiper-pagination__bullets\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<p>H\u00f6fer, originally from northern Bavaria, completed a Master\u2019s in History at the University of Bamberg with a dissertation about public rituals of penance in the 13th century and their role as public forms of communication and conflict resolution in a semi-oral society. As part of his Bachelor\u2019s in History and Communication Science, he investigated a transnational media event during the Seven Years\u2019 War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was during his Master\u2019s that he decided to join the C\u00b2DH as a PhD researcher, in part because of his background studying transnational phenomena and media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"transnational-insights\"\n    >\nTransnational insights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image  object-fit--cover\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"Matthias H\u00f6fer\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/14153358\/IMG_2298-copy.jpg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/14153358\/IMG_2298-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/14153358\/IMG_2298-copy-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/14153358\/IMG_2298-copy-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/14153358\/IMG_2298-copy.jpg 1000w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 70.00% 67.00%; font-family: &quot;object-fit: cover; object-position: 70.00% 67.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 2\/3; object-fit: cover; width: 100%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>    <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>H\u00f6fer has been busy analysing sources from company archives, advertisements and statistics. Sourcing historical data on his topic, however, can be challenging for several reasons: the types of archival material available can vary considerably between countries, for instance, and statistical data is often not easily comparable on a transnational scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, his persistence seems to be paying off, as he has plenty of interesting findings to share. \u201cThe last thing I wrote was on the implementation and introduction of German brands in France. What I found very interesting was the extent to which advertising is also connected to the economy and external factors as a whole,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the late 1950s and 1960s, for instance, with the accelerated push for European integration, German consumer electronics brands began to advertise and market their products more widely in France. However, as H\u00f6fer explains, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t just German manufacturers that exported their products to France; retailers began to buy directly from wholesalers in Germany and sell to French consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Consumer electronics manufacturers were unhappy about these practices and tried to prevent them. There was even a European court case about it. But these were the realities of the Common Market. Retailers importing the products \u201ctook advantage of advertising by companies which were not in a position to undercut them,\u201d H\u00f6fer explains. \u201cThis is not something that you see from individual ads, but if you look at the whole picture, it\u2019s often more interconnected, even on a transnational level, than you might think.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luxembourg is the most difficult of the three country cases to analyse, as there is less material than in Germany or France. H\u00f6fer has nonetheless managed to identify certain aspects that are quite particular to Luxembourg. For instance, television sets sold in Germany were incompatible in France, and vice versa. \u201cLuxembourgish people, however, spoke both German and French and were interested in receiving television from both countries, so they required specific products that were capable of receiving multiple standards from multiple countries,\u201d H\u00f6fer explains. This meant that advertising in Luxembourg could focus on the promise of receiving multiple channels. Furthermore, Luxembourgers sometimes banded together to buy a communal aerial which could receive and convert transmissions to household TV sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"popkult60-collaboration-and-other-opportunities\"\n    >\nPopKult60 collaboration and other opportunities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>H\u00f6fer\u2019s research is part of the broader <a href=\"https:\/\/popkult60.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PopKult60<\/a> project, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). The project focuses on transnational popular culture in Europe in the long 1960s and will culminate in a joint publication due to be released by the of end of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming from a more conventional research background, H\u00f6fer says the C\u00b2DH has pushed him to reflect on how to incorporate digital history methods into his research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-quote-people\">\n    <div class=\"quote-people\" role=\"group\">\n        <figure class=\"quote-people__body\">\n            <blockquote class=\"quote-people__blockquote\">\n    <span class=\"quote-people__quote\">\u201f<\/span>\n    There are certain projects where digital history can bring added value and really improve your work if you use the right approach. Reflecting on these questions is crucial.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper quote-people__figcaption\">\n<p class=\"quote-people__author wp-block-unilux-blocks-plain-text\">Matthias H\u00f6fer<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<p>He says he also values the social aspects of the C\u00b2DH, particularly the team spirit andthe opportunities to work collaboratively. The supportive and friendly atmosphere has helped him tackle some tricky research challenges and made him feel part of a wider community.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his interest in media and communication history and as part of the PopKult60 project, Matthias H\u00f6fer is focusing on how companies popularised and advertised consumer electronics in Germany, France and Luxembourg in the 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":11216,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":{"x":0.58,"y":0.45},"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"articles-category":[470],"articles-topic":[404,403],"organisation":[222,221],"authorship":[57],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - 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