Posts Tagged ‘GDR’
Museumswohnung
Grashina Gabelmann visits an East German home that's been preserved as a museum... Whether it’s through movies such as Goodbye Lenin, books like Anna Funder’s Stasiland, Berlin institutions like the Stasi Museum or Hohenschoenhausen, or one of the city’s many themed walking tours, you’ll probably know something about the GDR (German Democratic Republic). But unless you’re one of the rare people who actually lived in East Germany between 1949-1990, you probably won’t know [...]
(English) The GDR Murals Of Magdalenenstrasse U Bahn
The Berlin U-Bahn station Magdalenenstraße, on the city’s U5 line, does not have any advertising hoardings along its walls. Instead, it features a remarkable series of hand-painted murals depicting scenes from German labour history, created by the German painter Wolfgang Frankenstein. The murals were commissioned and installed by the East German government in 1986, as part of their official celebrations of the 750th anniversary of the founding of the city of Berlin in 1237. There were [...]
To Rococo Rot
To Rococo Rot haben sich mit ihrem einzigartigen Markenzeichen – locker daherkommende Electronic Beats - in den letzten 15 Jahren weit nach oben gearbeitet. Während der Vorbereitungen zur Veröffentlichung ihres neuen Albums – das erste seit sechs Jahren – hatte STB die Gelegenheit mit den in Berlin wohnhaften Brüdern Robert und Ronald Lippok zu plaudern: über das Aufwachsen am Zionskirchplatz, dem permanenten Versuch der Stasi aus dem Weg zu gehen und die goldenen 90er... „Da [...]
