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	Ostalgie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ostalgie is a German term (the English equivalent would be eastalgia) referring to nostalgia for life in the former East Germany.
		Ostalgie particularly refers to everyday parts of life in the former GDR that disappeared after reunification, overwhelmed by capitalism and Western culture.
		The term Ostalgie is occasionally used to refer to nostalgia for life under the socialist system in other former communist countries of Central Europe, most notably Poland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ostalgie (330 words)

	Pilot Guides.com: Hello, Lenin? Germany's Ostalgie phenomenon
		Ostalgie is not only supported by those who used to live in the former GDR, indeed the most avid followers were probably too young to remember the wall, let alone the actuality of living within the GDR.
		German supporters of the Ostalgie phenomenon are keen to insist that the movement is based purely on obsession for the iconography of the East and not a desperate longing for separation once more.
		In recent poles 11% of former GDR residents believed that life before reunification was better, Ostalgie therefore, whilst not based on desire for the ideals of the East, manifests itself as an immerging commercial market for Germany on a domestic and international scale.
	www.pilotguides.com /destination_guide/europe/germany/ostalgie.php (998 words)

	Ostalgie - Wikipedia
		Die Ostalgie wurde unter anderem durch einen Identitätsverlust in Ostdeutschland nach der Wiedervereinigung beider deutscher Staaten ausgelöst.
		Ostalgie hat jedoch auch eine kommerzielle Komponente: So verkaufen sich offenbar im Osten Ost-Produkte gut, und auch mit den alten Musikaufnahmen, deren Verwertungsrechte heute größtenteils bei der BMG liegen, lässt sich Geld verdienen, so lange die Nachfrage stimmt.
		Viele Freunde der Musik aus der DDR lehnen es jedoch ab, ihre Vorliebe, die sich allein auf der Qualität der Musik begründe, als Ostalgie bezeichnen zu lassen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ostalgie (469 words)

	CNN.com - Germans embrace communist past - Sep. 18, 2003
		Ostalgie peaked this month when "The German Democratic Republic Show" aired on German television, hosted by former East German Olympic skater Katarina Witt.
		"Ostalgie is not about a desire to return to the harsh conditions of the time as much as a desire to return to a period when one could still have hopes and dreams of a world existing beyond the border, a world that is now irrevocably tinged with disillusion.
		Meanwhile, tourist agencies conduct Ostalgie tours of the East and the New National Gallery held its biggest exhibition of GDR art.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TRAVEL/09/18/germany.east (561 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Germany battles over right to reminisce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As the phenomenon grows, so does the debate as to whether it is appropriate to be sentimental about life under a regime which shot those who tried to escape its clutches, and persecuted those who disagreed with its ideology.
		The debate about Ostalgie has also reached political circles, with a number of regional leaders and MPs weighing in with their views on the phenomenon.
		The Ostalgie phenomenon has in part been explained by the fact that people in the east, where unemployment is doggedly high, hark back to a time when their jobs, and their futures, were secure.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3077054.stm (856 words)

	Past Recipients of the Williams Fellowship and their Proposals
		Ostalgie is probably the most important cultural trend in Germany today.
		But Ostalgie has left its mark most forcefully on the popular literature and cinema of contemporary Germany.
		More than anything, though, Ostalgie is a symptom of the persistent differences between East and West Germans and of their growing resentment of one another"
	www.columbia.edu /cu/english/ug_wmsprops.htm (4309 words)

	ostalgie
		Sonnenallee is Ostalgie in its purest form, its obsessive attitude towards the shapes and colors of GDR mass culture not at all unlike the various websites seen above or the British teenagers clad in FDJ shirts.
		His other effort from 1999, Helden wie wir, is part of a group of Ostalgie comedies that refer explicitly to the phallus as a signpost in the GDR experience.
		Berlin is in Germany (2001) cannot be said to espouse the facile Ostalgie of the 1999 retro-films—after all, the film depicts a prisoner unjustly imprisoned for murder in the GDR—buts its disillusionment with the reunified Germany forecloses other options.
	www.somasoma.de /14/ostalgie.html (1787 words)

	Ostalgie's not what it used to be: the German television GDR craze of 2003.(Forum Article) Industry & Business ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ZDF set the tone with its Ostalgie Show, broadcast one evening in August, a program filled with features on such staples of life in the GDR as the Trabi, or Trabant motorcar, hit records by the Puhdys, Spreewald gherkins, and Schlagersusstafel chocolate.
		The Ostalgie Show was followed a few days later by Ein Kessel DDR (A Pot of GDR), a similar program produced by the eastern regional channel MDR.
		ZDF's Ostalgie Show, for example, had an audience of 4.78 million viewers, 21.8 percent of the viewing public as a whole, with 34 percent of eastern viewers tuning in.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/gi_0199-4496684/Ostalgie-s-not-what-it.html (1035 words)

	hem\|mungen: Brief thoughts on Ostalgie
		Sebastian Heiduschke suggested that Ostalgie was a means of laying claim to a collective memory-and pointed...
		Sebastian Heiduschke suggested that Ostalgie was a means of laying claim to a collective memory--and pointed out that the term was already appearing in 1991 (huh; the earliest reference I'd found was in 1996).
		Another very keen observation by the same person (unfortunately I never learned this woman's name) was that if Ostalgie is recalling a past that never was quite as it is remembered, a model for understanding it might be the Heimat movement of the 1950s.
	www.hemmungen.com /archives/000172.html (431 words)

	Untitled Document
		Ostalgie is the term used to describe nostalgia for the east.
		Ostalgie extends to the East German car called the Trabant, which people purchase over the Internet.
		It is a sign that the schism between easterners and westerners is beginning to close because the westerners are becoming less snooty about their own culture.
	www.unc.edu /~uicker/6m/kjuphotoessay/page6.html (184 words)

	Television Joins the "Ostalgie" Bandwagon \| Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle \| 25.08.2003
		The focus is on "normal," everyday life in the communist East minus the oppressiveness imposed by a totalitarian regime.
		ostalgie wave distorts the past and plays down the unjustness of the East German state.
		Psychotherapist Hans-Joachim Maaz has claimed the trend is superficial and that it shouldn't be allowed to play down the inhumane sides of the system.
	www.dw-world.de /popups/popup_printcontent/0,,955473,00.html (467 words)

	Examples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Talbot maintains that ostalgie, a word meaning nostalgia for the former German Democratic Republic, is keeping the distinct cultural differences alive (11).
		In her article "Back to the Future" Talbot fully presents her evidence of ostalgie very logically, however the strength of the article is weakened by undocumented research and sources.
		The main draw back of Talbot's article is the undocumented research she uses to prove ostalgie.
	www.d.umn.edu /~kmaurer/1120Examples.html (934 words)

	Stasi movie adds a serious edge to 'Ostalgie' for the old East Independent on Sunday, The - Find Articles
		Cinema audiences in Germany, which has been engulfed in "Ostalgie" movies sentimentalising life in the Communist era, are about to get a sharp reminder of reality in the old East Germany with the release of a film about the Stasi secret police.
		The release in 2003 of Good Bye Lenin!, about a son's attempt to stop his terminally ill mother discovering the GDR has collapsed, proved that Germans do have a sense of humour and was an international success.
		Mr von Donnersmarck, a west German who was 16 when the wall fell in 1989, spent a year immersing himself in the methods and language of the Stasi to ensure his film was as authentic as possible.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20060326/ai_n16173194 (516 words)

	50 Jahre BRD \| Heute - Ostalgie: Die Mauer in den Köpfen
		"Ostalgie ist die Fähigkeit, darüber zu trauern, dass es nicht mehr so ist, wie es auch früher nicht war.
		Diese Rückbesinnung auf die früheren Zustände bezeichnet man allgemein als "Ostalgie".
		"Ostalgie" - Der Wunsch, alte Werte und Traditionen wieder auferstehen zu lassen
	www.gym-rinteln.de /50jahre/chronik/heute/ostalgie.html (207 words)

	Amazon.com: Ostalgie: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ostalgie's not what it used to be: the German television GDR craze of 2003.(Forum Article): An article from: German Politics and Society by Paul Cooke (Digital - Dec 22, 2004) - HTML
		Ostalgie on film.(analysing Good Bye Lenin!)(Critical Essay): An article from: Queen's Quarterly by Maurice Yacowar (Digital - Dec 22, 2003) - HTML
		Germans call it Ostalgie, a nostalgia for the East during the Cold War.
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Ostalgie&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (508 words)

	hem\|mungen: ostalgie
		While I'm still trying to figure out what Ostalgie actually means for the Germans, I also find myself wondering what it...
		While I'm still trying to figure out what Ostalgie actually means for the Germans, I also find myself wondering what it means for US commentators.
		Seems like we're dealing with two entirely different regimes, not to mention two VERY different "regime-changes." Oh, and two different systems/nations/identities, however that should be phrased.
	www.hemmungen.com /archives/000007.html (214 words)

	Ostalgie ain't quite what it is painted
		It is almost inevitable that the sort of economic, political and intellectual upheaval that Eastern Europe experienced in the last fifteen years should have left many people bewildered and with a feeling of fausse nostalgie, recently dubbed in East Germany or, at least about East Germany, as ostalgie.
		One wonders whether he is now suffering from a Russian form of ostalgie or whether he has managed to come to terms with actually having to work for money rather than, as the old East European joke had it, to pretend to work for pretend pay.
		Perhaps, German film-makers are suffering from ostalgie to the point when they are ready to make films that start off as the truth but fall into a sentimental and untruthful trap.
	www.freemarketnews.com /Analysis/53/2814/2005-11-04.asp?wid=53&nid=2814 (2167 words)

	Green Left - Goodbye Lenin, hello 'Ostalgie'
		Obviously written by Alex, it is a sign of his final reconciliation with his mother on both familial and philosophical grounds.
		On January 13, 2004, the New York Times reported on the phenomenon of “Ostalgie”, a neologism that indicates nostalgia for the “East” or the Communist past, which is epitomised in a small museum in the town of Eisenhuttenstadt that has gotten a boost from the popularity of Good Bye Lenin!
		It evokes Christiane's bedroom: “The museum is just a few rooms, mostly on the second floor of a former day-care center, but it holds 70,000 to 80,000 objects from the former East Germany.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2004/567/33179 (1411 words)

	Pejmanesque: OSTALGIE DIMINISHED?
		To take another example: in Germany, many CDs featuring old East German Revolutionary and Party songs, from ‘Stalin, Freund, Genosse’ to ‘Die Partei hat immer Recht’, are easy to find.
		Despite what the piece might at first suggest,Zizek seems to still be a starry-eyed Marxist.
		The evidence is scattered throughout, but for example, referring to communism vis-a-vis Nazism as "a thwarted attempt at liberation" without the slightest irony suggests a chronic case of Ostalgie to me. And read carefully his closing paragraph:
	www.pejmanesque.com /archives/009694.html (752 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But so-called "ostalgie" hunters, those wistful for the communist era, recently discovered its secret grave and have been chiselling bits from its red granite surface as souvenirs.
		But, strange as it is, a wave of what is called ostalgie (ost meaning east in German) has become a phenomenon in this country.
		The German phenomenon of Ostalgie - nostalgia for the former East Germany - has sparked plans for a theme park celebrating all aspects of life in the communist state.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=ostalgie (2292 words)

	Ostalgie (German to English translation glossary) History,Marketing
		This is from a market research report about the state of the market in the new Federal States.
		It's clear what "Ostalgie" means, and having played around with a few silly ideas ("Glasnostalgia", anyone?) I'm quite happy to paraphrase it, but just on the offchance that one of my colleagues comes up with a catchy English version, I thought I'd throw this open to the field.
		And, despite a certain Ostalgie - nostalgia for the politics and design emblems of the former GDR regime, seen in the T-shirt, record and clothing boutiques springing up around Berlin - there's little chance that a revival in architectural fashions will save this relic.
	www.proz.com /kudoz/1005964 (1082 words)

	no-panic - Weblog » Blog Archiv » Ostalgie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Der große Schub der Ostalgie ist zwar vorüber, doch ist die DDR als Ergebnis dieser Modewelle voll rehabilitiert.
		Vergessen sind die Diktatur, die Folter und die Mauertoten, für die es nicht einmal ein Denkmal gibt.
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	www.no-panic.org /2005/07/22/ostalgie (382 words)

	Ostalgie Who? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The film was a smash in Germany, winning best European film at the Berlin Film Festival, and was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Nominee for Best Foreign Language film.
		After the release of Good Bye, Lenin!, the apartment featured in the film quickly became a popular place to rent out for "Ostalgie" Parties.
		A combination of the German words for East and Nostalgia, Ostalgie has been a popular trend in Germany since Good Bye, Lenin!
	www.fresnofamous.com /node/200/print (277 words)

	EU Referendum - View topic - Ostalgie ain't what it's painted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject: Ostalgie ain't what it's painted
		Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:32 pm Post subject: ostalgie ain't quite what it is painted
		It’s what you say about the ‘old certainties’ disappearing that is the important point.
	www.eureferendum.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=729 (536 words)

	Telegraph Blogs: Foreign: Kate Connolly: May 2006: Stasi cruelty behind 'Ostalgie' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is in stark contrast to some of the other - no less excellent - films about the German Democratic Republic like Goodbye Lenin!
		The difference with ‘Life of Others’ is that this is no sentimental or amusing portrait of how things were for 45 years, rather it should have the effect of stopping the peddlers of “Ostalgie” in their tracks.
		It focusses on the lives of a playwright and his beautiful actress lover and the rather spineless Stasi officer who installs himself in the attic of their flat to spy on them, day and night.
	blogs.telegraph.co.uk /foreign/kateconnolly/may06/ostalgie.htm (1241 words)

	LEPOINT.FR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		», film qui sort en France le 10 septembre, s'explique par l'« Ostalgie », cette nostalgie de la RDA et du Mur, signes de traumatismes encore chauds.
		» a entraîné dans son sillage un puissant raz de marée d'« Ostalgie » - cette nostalgie de la RDA foudroyée en l'espace de quelques mois.
		La ZDF, la deuxième chaîne de télévision, a été la première à lancer un « Ostalgie Show » présenté par Andrea Kiewel, ex-championne de l'équipe nationale de natation est- allemande.
	www.lepoint.fr /cinema/document.html?did=134290 (1120 words)

	Amazon.com: Ostalgie on film.(analysing Good Bye Lenin!)(Critical Essay): An article from: Queen's Quarterly: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		But beyond the comedy, of course, are the larger social issues, with the central question of why anything should be so unacceptable.
	www.amazon.com /Ostalgie-film-analysing-Lenin-Critical/dp/B000822EYK (343 words)

	ostalgie // juillet 2004 // Walter Benjamin Platz on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		ostalgie // juillet 2004 // Walter Benjamin Platz on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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	The Belgravia Dispatch: Ostalgie Rising in the East
		The Belgravia Dispatch: Ostalgie Rising in the East
		"Ostalgie is complicated, made up of various ingredients.
		The Sunday Times (UK) "Rise of the Virtual Soapbox"
	www.belgraviadispatch.com /2004/01/ostalgie_rising_in_the_east.html (228 words)

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