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	Germany Info: Culture & Life
		In Germany, it even inspired a movement called "Ostalgie," or nostalgia for East Germany.
		The setting is East Berlin, 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
		Alex, the son of a passionately socialist mother, is arrested for protesting against the East German regime.
	www.germany.info /relaunch/culture/new/cul_goodbye_lenin_interview.htm (915 words)

	East Germany - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		East Germany, formally known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR)), was a Communist satellite state of the former Soviet Union which, together with West Germany, existed from 1949 to 1990 in Germany.
		East Germany was heavily under the influence of the Soviet Union, becoming a Stalinist-style socialist country, and part of the Warsaw Pact.
		Thus, on October 3th 1990 the East German population was the first from the Eastern Bloc to join the European Union as a part of the reunified Federal Republic of Germany.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /gd/GDR.html (950 words)

	Culture of the German Democratic Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Influences from the West were heard everywhere, because TV and radio that came from the Klassenfeind (class enemy) could be received in many parts of the East, too (a notorious exception being Dresden, with its geographically disadvantageous position in the Elbe valley, giving it the nickname of “Valley of the Clueless”).
		On a more traditional level, the East German government celebrated the fact that Johann Sebastian Bach was born in East German territory, and spent a great deal of money converting his house in Eisenach into a museum of his life, which, among other things, included more than 300 instruments from Bach's life.
		With widespread censorship of literature, the media and the arts, political jokes were one of the main outlets for criticism of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Culture_of_the_German_Democratic_Republic (419 words)

	ipedia.com: East Germany Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		East Germany, under Soviet influence, adopted a Marxist-Leninist official ideology and became part of the Warsaw Pact, while West Germany, influenced by the USA, became a liberal parliamentary republic and part of NATO.
		Many who had come to East Germany as anti-fascistss who were opposed to the quick reinstatement of Nazi functionaries and industry in the west found themselves captives of a dogmatic and economically weak state which, alone, was forced to pay reparations to the Soviet Union.
		Thus, on October 3rd 1990 the East German population was the first from the Eastern Bloc to join the European Union as a part of the reunified Federal Republic of Germany.
	www.ipedia.com /east_germany.html (1567 words)

	The Development of Media and Democracy in East Germany since 1989
		To understand why East Germany was able to develop a free press more easily than the Visegrad countries, one must understand the nature of the change in these countries.
		The adoption of democracy in the former GDR was also aided by the "extensive exchange of functionaries" between the East and West, which helped educate the East Germans in the methods of administering a free press and a democratic government.
		Also, some opponents of the democratization of the East German press attack a premise of this paper, which is that a free media environment (including the press and the electronic media) is beneficial for a democratic society.
	www.gwu.edu /~addendum/eastgermanblack.htm (3183 words)

	Reunified Germany
		East and West Germans were eager to achieve a strong economy and funds were sent to the former East Germany to help rebuild its shattered states.
		Though the East may lack the level of restoration seen in the West, both former nations are reunified in one crucial respect--the desire to rejoice in Germany's strengths and achievements.
		In addition, East Germans are resentful of West Germany's power and economic success while they suffer with extreme unemployment, lower salaries, low economic growth, and a lack of funds to repair their buildings and way of life.
	www.wm.edu /so/monitor/fall99/paper3.htm (3942 words)

	II Journal: Responses to German Unification
		Although the economic divide between East and West Germany has become less blatant since monetary union in 1990, Engler argued that persistent alienation and prejudice have widened the gulf between East and West in the course of reunification.
		All three speakers concurred that confronting and revising the history of East Germany is a vital prerequisite to forging a collective national identity embedded in democratic civic culture.
		Rewriting East Germany into the narratives of German history, recasting East German social identities to encompass the creative improvising, negotiating, and risk-managing that was required by the Communist system; rebuilding social networks amidst the landscape of dismantled factories, deserted downtowns, and abandoned daycare centers, will certainly spur on this process in the new German states.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol4no2/gersym.html (595 words)

	Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956, by John Connelly. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In East Germany wartime migrations and a radical denazification caused an unparalleled break of the professoriate in 1945.
		Universities in East Germany, Poland, and the Czech lands all based themselves on Austro-German models of higher education, and the professoriates emerged from almost identical professional socialization, including doctorate and habilitation under the direction of nearly omnipotent chair holders.
		And the Czech, East German, and Polish populations took each other to be points of reference as well.[76] The ease of communication strengthened cross-border contacts: Czech and Polish academics simply wrote and spoke with each other in their native tongues, and Germans communicated with functionaries and academics from Poland or the Czech lands in German.
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/connelly_captive.html (5382 words)

	Former East German Olympic Judge Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The East German Judge was a symbol of rectitude and strength, a powerful bulwark against the nefarious forces of bourgeois capitalism, and, yes, a sex symbol as well.
		Although originally there were few East Germans--athletes or officials--participating in the Olympic games, it was not long before judges from the other countries noticed that there was something different about their colleagues from East Germany, some indefinable something with the strength of steel.
		The steel in the reinforced concrete that was East Germany.
	www.sff.net /people/pitman/egjudge.htm (2009 words)

	Germany Info: Culture & Life: Arts: Performing Arts
		Potente, who trained in Germany and the U.S., had her first Hollywood role opposite Johnny Depp in Ted Demme’s Blow, and gained widespread popularity with audiences in the U.S. this summer in a major role in The Bourne Identity, co-starring Matt Damon.
		These films typically do not garner the same attention in other countries because their cultural references tend to be very specific and therefore difficult to translate for non-German audiences.
		Germany was a pioneer of the new medium and had the most movie houses of any European country at that time.
	www.germany.info /relaunch/culture/arts/performing_arts/film.html (1191 words)

	TIME Fast Forward: Anetta Kahane, 46, German anti-racism activist
		One of the least attractive legacies of the reunification of Germany has been a steady rise in violence by right-wing extremists in the former East Germany.
		A Jew raised in the east, the 46-year-old activist notes that communism moved in almost as soon as the long reign of the Nazis was crushed.
		She cites a recent poll indicating that 80% of the population of the former East German states admits to anti-Semitic beliefs, compared with barely 30% in the west.
	www.time.com /time/europe/specials/ff/trip6/kahane.html (499 words)

	East Germany's Doping Legacy Returns \| Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle \| 01.10.2004
		The specter of the former East Germany's doping culture reared its ugly head again on Thursday when leading German athletics coach Thomas Springstein was suspended by his club SC Magdeburg after a banned substance was found at his house during a state prosecutors' investigation into alleged drug use.
		Breuer and her East German compatriot Krabbe, both coached by Springstein, were suspended for two years for using the banned steroid clenbuterol in 1992.
		Germany is ramping up its battle against performance enhancing drugs by setting up a national anti-doping agency.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,1344595,00.html (945 words)

	Germany Castles, East Germany Castles
		East Germany castles, like all Germany castles, are a not-to-miss experience.
		They represent the historic beauty that Germany is known for with its architecture, museums, music, and culture; and they also give you an exciting way to experience times of old with family and friends.
		Albrechtsburg Meissen - The Albrechtsburg Meissen, situated on the left bank of the River Elbe, is a gothic castle that was built in the late 15th century and the first palatial castle of its kind in Germany castle building history.
	www.cometogermany.com /ENU/culture_and_events/germany_castles_east.htm (278 words)

	SULAIR: Collections on Recent and Contemporary German Culture and Politics: Cultural History of the German Democratic ...
		Autoren-Kollegium formed 1988/89 in East Berlin by some 25 playwrights, most of whom were relatively young and had been unable to find a creative outlet through the established theaters and publishers in East Germany.
		The bulk of these posters advertise films from East Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States, but DEFA was responsible for all of the graphic work, regardless of the country from which they were imported.
		An important related source is the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is a film archive, library, and study center devoted to research on DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft) and cinema in the former GDR.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/german/cultural.html (2115 words)

	The Powers of Speech: The Politics of Culture in the Gdr:0803212585:Bathrick, David:eCampus.com
		In this definitive study, David Bathrick examines East German culture both before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.
		Bathrick argues that dissident East German writers were unique among East European literary intellectuals in that they attempted "to open up alternative spaces for public speech from within (the) framework" of Marxism and state socialism.
		Bathrick compares oppositional culture in East Germany to radical cultures elsewhere, examines the complex political and cultural relations of East and West Germany, traces the anguished history of the East German avant-garde, and describes the troubled effort to develop a revolutionary theatrical tradition in East Germany.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0803212585 (162 words)

	Dr. Molly W. Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In her research, Dr. Johnson explores the political, social, and cultural role of sports in communist East Germany.
		Her research demonstrates that sports, as a site where the political aspirations of the government and the personal and communal aspirations of citizens often coincided, contributed significantly to the emergence of a new socialist culture in East Germany.
		Likewise, her study of sports also reveals some of the problems that ultimately led to the collapse of East Germany in 1989/1990.
	www.uah.edu /colleges/liberal/history/new_page_2.htm (220 words)

	East German Cinema
		East German cinema existed even before the formal establishment of the German Democratic Republic in 1949.
		All of this semester's assignments may be understood as parts of a larger project: to grapple with films produced in the German Democratic Republic from 1946-1989 and consider the significance of their contributions to cinema and German culture.
		Poiger, Uta A. "American Culture in East and West German Reconstruction." Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany.
	www.umass.edu /defa/CourseMaterials/hamiltonsyllabus.shtml (1075 words)

	Bendix Fellows, 1998-99
		This dissertation argues that the method and pace of German unification was determined by a political and economic culture peculiar to East Germany.
		Zatlin shows how the legacy of socialism, and not the lure of capitalism, led East Germans to embrace the West German mark and political institutions.
		On the contrary, socialism continued to inform politics in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) even as East Germans voted in the parliamentary elections of March 1990 to surrender their monetary -- and therefore political -- sovereignty.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /fellowship/fellows/bfel98-99.html (149 words)

	Trabis Enjoy Cult Status in Former East Germany \| Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle \| 15.10.2006
		Although Trabants had been exported from East Germany, they only became well-known in the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall when many were abandoned by their eastern owners after migrating westward.
		An enterprising German has canned the malodorous exhaust fumes of East Germany's once maligned and now cult Trabant car, selling the scent to those nostalgic for the former communist state.
		Military service in Germany may be shortened, Trabis could soon be on the roads of Africa and the price of a German pint is set to rise again.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,,2199665,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf (777 words)

	http://xft001/classes/intlfilm/newgermancinema.htm
		The Eastern part became the German Democratic Republic (the GDR, "East Germany"), which was a part of the Iron Curtain under the indirect control of the Soviet Union.
		In East Germany, on the other hand, the State had long been teaching school children about the legacy of Naziism, partly as an ideological strategy demonstrating the need for leftism to combat the Fascist history of the country.
		In East Germany, such an obliviousness to the Holocaust was not necessarily the norm, although the East German censors’ decision not to air the NBC miniseries because its citizens were already experts on the Nazi past was, to say the least, dubious.
	www.montana.edu /metz/website/intlfilm/newgermancinema.htm (2958 words)

	Germany Vacations - Hotels Germany - Germany Hotels
		The Hilton Bonn is a modern hotel situated on the River Rhine, 400 metres from the city centre and three kilometres from Bonn's Museum Mile.
		Choosing to visit Germany can be an educational and historically enriching experience for the whole family.
		Other exhibits in Berlin are the Jewish Museum, the Perganon ancient history museum, The Brandenburg Gate monument, the Atlas archaeological museum, The Story of Museum history exhibit and the Klusor Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins from bombings during World War II.
	www.germanyhotelfinder.com (609 words)

	About Germany: your travel guide to Germany, Deutschland, Aleman
		Get to know Germany's culture, Munich's Oktoberfest and other festivals, Goethe and German literature, German music from Johann Sebastian Bach and Richard Wagner to pop and techno, German fashion and film and many images, pictures and photos of Germany.
		Find out about travelling to, living and studying in Germany, German society, media and universities, means of transport and German language.
		Introduction to independend-minded Bavaria, Germany's East, urban 'Ruhrpott' or the stunning beauty of Germany's Rhine Valley.
	www.about-germany.org (312 words)

	[No title]
		East German film was already in the early sixties.
		The last film of the semester will be a comedy by Frank Beyer, one of the last GDR films before the Wall came down in 1989.
		Since this is a culture studies course, we will analyze 20th century German history, politics, and culture by looking at German films.
	www.umass.edu /defa/CourseMaterials/emdesyllabus.shtml (828 words)

	Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Main Page
		It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures.
		To present a diversity of source material in modern European, American, and Latin American history, as well as a significant amount of materal pertinent to world cultures and global studies.
		Although the history of social and cultural elite groups remains important to historians, the lives of non-elite women, people of color, lesbians and gays are also well represented here.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/modsbook.html (951 words)

	Contemporary Review: East Germany's culture confronts American pop culture.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		East Germany has been observed to be rapidly imbibing American pop culture at the expense of its indigenous culture, in contrast to other European countries that have recently forsaken Communism.
		It is sad, however, to witness the neglect by East Germans of their own artistic works, which existed alongside propaganda-filled works during the Communist regime.
		They should be able to separate these genuine artistic masterpieces and preserve them for posterity or perform them regularly so they are not...
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:18920170&refid=ink_tptd_mag (207 words)

	Anglo German Trade - Business Guide to Germany, Austria and Switzerland - trade, investment, setting up, law, ...
		It provides business information on selected industry sectors, technology, a calendar of significant trade fairs and conferences, important information on investment and infrastructural developments, and travel and destination guides and information.
		Germany, Austria, Switzerland host regularly key major tradeshows, exhibitions and conferences.
		Austria, Germany and Switzerland are major business travel, MICE and tourism destinations.
	www.anglogermantrade.com (273 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99034558 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Poiger reveals that East and West German authorities deployed gender and racial norms to contain Americanized youth cultures in their own territories and to carry on the ideological Cold War battle with each other.
		In the first two decades of the Cold War, consumer culture became a way to delineate the boundaries between East and West.
		This pathbreaking study, the first comparative cultural history of the two Germanies, sheds new light on the legacy of Weimar and National Socialism, on gender and race relations in Europe, and on Americanization and the Cold War.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/ucal042/99034558.html (295 words)

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