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»Anyone writing about the history of wellness would have an easy time at the beginning of the endeavor. Regarding the origin there is no doubt.« Am Anfang des Diskurses über Wellness, so war sich der »Wellness-Evangelist« Donald Ardell 1985 sicher, steht eine Person: Halbert L. Dunn, der im Jahr 1959 insgesamt 29 Vorträge zum Thema »High-Level Wellness« in der Unitarian Church in Arlington, Virginia hielt. 1961 erschienen diese Vorträge in Buchform. »Wellness«, bis dahin ein wenig gebräuchliches Wort für das Gegenteil von »Sickness«, wurde infolge dieser Publikation zu einer Antwort auf »Stress«. Dass Dunn die Vorträge in einer Kirche hielt, passte zu seiner epochalen Mission. Der Mensch stehe an einem Scheitelpunkt: Er könne sich für sein kreatives Potential entscheiden oder in den Abgrund des Krieges zurückrutschen.
In 1967, an exhibition opened in East Berlin that proposed, through an overload of images, to unite the histories of the Soviet Union and the GDR, and to confront international photography exhibitions produced in the United States and West Germany. More than the design principles and methods of this show, entitled Vom Glück des Menschen or On the Happiness of People, directly connect it with Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man exhibition, first presented at MoMA in New York in 1953. Its original title was in fact The Socialist Family of Man, and its designers addressed Steichen’s show directly with a scathing critique that echoes the critical discourse in general around The Family of Man. Ultimately, and despite the acknowledged relationship of the exhibition to its Western model, Vom Glück des Menschen also departed from it, crafting a narrative through photographs specifically designed for a socialist society under construction.