The post A bumpy ride down East Germany’s memory lane appeared first on The World from PRX. ... “Not much of the culture of the GDR survived, and that’s sad,” Römer said.

In any case, it’s not only the culture that’s tuning into the GDR—British politicians are too. In a speech from July 2021, ahead of the collapse of his own regime, Boris Johnson compared the ...

Meanwhile, East Germans also enjoyed summer, sun, and beaches – often as practitioners of FKK (Free Body Culture – aka nudism). Holidays in the GDR were symbolized by a picnic suitcase, a ...

Beyond the Wall. By Katja Hoyer. Allen Lane; 496 pages; £25. To be published in America by Basic Books in September; $35. I n the eyes of its critics, the communist-run part of Germany was never ...

Despite these clumsy workarounds, East Germany could never escape its Stalinist origins. Erich Honecker, the last longtime leader of the GDR, leveraged his predecessor Ulbricht’s minor ...

Her performance was no accident of history. In its 40-year existence, East Germany dominated the Olympic Games. Despite its small size—the country’s population never rose past 19 million—the ...

Christmas in the GDR: The Annual Bristol German Christmas Lecture and Party. 4 December 2023, 6.00 PM - 4 December 2023, ... and what does thinking about an East German Christmas unlock in our wider ...

GDR censorship: What East Germans were allowed to read 11/07/2022 November 7, 2022. The East German regime nurtured an educated and well-read society — but literature was heavily censored.

Gelbin remained committed to Jewish culture and religion, in spite of state ambivalence toward all nonsecular groups. As she grew older, she often questioned the G.D.R.’s socialist doctrine at ...

It was said that the people of East Germany, or the German Democratic Republic (GDR), loved to read, from classics like Tolstoy's "War and Peace," Boccaccio's "Decameron" and Hugo's "The Wretched," to ...