The concept of images of aging is discussed from different point of views, e. g. developmental psychology, theories of education, psychoanalysis, and history. By analyzing some examples of advertising, manifest and latent aspects of present images of old age are investigated. Deep hermeneutics as method of interpreting social and cultural phenomena is applied. It is pointed out that more and more juvenile idealizations pervade modern images of old age and aging.Der Begriff der Altersbilder wird aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven, unter anderem aus der Perspektive von Entwicklungspsychologie, Erziehungswissenschaften, Psychoanalyse und Geschichte, beleuchtet. Dann werden an Beispielen aus der Werbung manifeste und latente Aspekte gegenwärtig...