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The long journey from Kafka to Gorbachev
Berlin :: Germany | about 2 hours ago
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On Aug. 2, 1914, Franz Kafka wrote in his diary: "Germany has declared war against Russia...Kafka, the reclusive and visionary Central European writer, gave his name to the 20th century. Seventy-five years had to pass before Kafka's swim before Central...
Tags: Franz Kafka, Eastern Europe, East Germany, liberal capitalism, Mikhail Gorbachev, Germany, Berlin, Economic ideologies, Liberalism, Political ideologies, Political culture, Socialism, Market economy, Economies, Capitalism
A reason to remember
Chişinău :: Moldova | 1 day ago
Credibility Twenty years ago on Nov. 9, the Berlin Wall came down, pushed by a people who said, "Enough is enough." Enough of communism with its dysfunctional economy and its oppressive control. The shouts and the clamber of the East Berliners ignited sparks that...
Tags: Moldova, Berlin Wall, East Berliners, West Berlin, Tell Zoya, berliners wall, Chişinău, East Germany, Transnistria, Eastern bloc, Anti-communism, Allied occupation of Germany, Politics
Germany's far-right flops | Jaroslaw Adamowski
Berlin :: Germany | 1 day ago
Credibility Germany's far-right flops Support for the National Democratic Party of Germany is sliding, and it's resorting to premium-rate phone lines to stay afloat When the Berlin wall fell apart, back in November 1989, fears that Germany's forthcoming reunification...
Tags: East Germany, NPD, BNP, Germany, Berlin, Erika Steinbach, Guido Westerwelle, Politics of Germany, Neo-Nazism, West Germany, National Democratic Party of Germany, Political parties in East Germany, Federation of Expellees, Politics
The Sandmannchen, Germany's cutest communist, turns 50
Berlin :: Germany | 2 days ago
Credibility The citizens of the German Democratic Republic used to habitually tune into West German TV despite the risk of being caught doing so. But once a day at 7pm, millions adjusted their sets to receive the East German channel DDR 1 for the latest exploits...
Tags: West Germany, Germany, Berlin, Sandman, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Berlin Wall, West Berlin, Eastern bloc, Sandmￃﾤnnchen, East Germany
Tony Patterson: The bratwurst is yet to come
Berlin :: Germany | 2 days ago
Credibility It takes no more than a trip to a run-of-the-mill Berlin supermarket to realise that the Teutonic Christmas machine has already been thrust into top gear in preparation for the big event. The shelves have suddenly begun bursting with Germany's famous...
Tags: Berliners, entrance fee, Germany, Berlin, Frank Castorf, Stollen, West Berlin, Dￃﾶner kebab, East Germany, German cuisine, Dresden, Gendarmenmarkt
This week's film event previews
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo, showing as part of the London Children's Film Festival. Is it wrong that the prospect of a Tim Burton Bedtime Stories Pyjama Party is as appealing to adults as it will be to movie-loving kids? With a sweet-making workshop and...
Tags: East Germany, Andrea Hubert Bakal Boys, United Kingdom, London, Ponyo, Effi Briest, Hayao Miyazaki, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Phelim, Studio Ghibli, films, Julia Jentsch, Entertainment Culture
Communist cars now rare treasures for nostalgics
Budapest :: Hungary | 5 days ago
Credibility Their spluttering engines, bone-rattling suspensions and outdated designs once ruled the streets behind the Iron Curtain. But now the Trabant and its communist cousins have become rare cars for collectors. Soviet-made Ladas, the classic rear-engine Czech...
Tags: Hungary, Budapest, Microcars, Trabant, Automobile Dacia, Ostalgie, Lada, East Germany, Car manufacturers, IFA
The call of the toad
Bitterfeld :: Germany | 5 days ago
Credibility Former East German writer Monika Maron looks at how blinded Grass was by his own preconceptions. On January 1st 1990, G�nter Grass decided to start keeping a diary. After the fall of the Wall, so many unusual things were happening that he felt it was...
Tags: east germans, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Gunter Grass, Bitterfeld Wolfen, GDR, Szczecin, West Germans, Christa Wolf, Saxony Anhalt, Herta M�ller, Germany, Bitterfeld, East Germany, German reunification, Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Eastern bloc, Gￃﾼnter Grass
Why did Stauffenberg plant the bomb?
Bamberg :: Germany | 5 days ago
Credibility Whatever his motives for killing Hitler, Stauffenberg was no role model for future generations, says British historian Richard Evans. Few incidents in the domestic history of Germany during the Second World War are more dramatic than Colonel Claus Schenk...
Tags: Richard Evans, Germany, Bamberg, East Germany, Karl-Heinz Kurras, German student movement, Stasi, Heinrich Albertz, Eastern bloc, Benno Ohnesorg, Cold War, Politics, Nazi Germany, National liberation movements, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, 20 July plot, Stauffenberg, German Resistance, German nobility, Stauffenberg family, Valkyrie, Adolf Hitler
East Germany, twenty years on,
Berlin :: Germany | 7 days ago
Credibility Twenty years after reunification, democracy in eastern Germany is still far from solid While politicians are busy participating in the numerous celebrations, exhibitions and extravaganzas in and around Berlin this year, they carefully avoid a question...
Tags: East Germany, GDR, Berlin, political class, west, Germany, Revolutions, Foreign relations of the Soviet Union, German reunification, Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, Politics, Eastern bloc, West Germany
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