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The GDR Objectified
A private collection of ephemera from or related to the German Democratic Republic
About this blog
Biographies
Radio GDR Podcast: Victor Grossman on the GDR’s Achievements
Radio GDR Podcast: A Strange Exchange – Brown University Students On the Loose in East Germany
A “Schur” Thing: The GDR’s First Homegrown Hero
Playing By Their Own Rules: A Clergy Couple in the GDR
An Olympic-sized dream is born: An elite-level sporting career in the GDR – pt. 1
Hieu L.: A Foreigner Worker’s Life in the GDR, Pt. 1
“Ausländer” in Hoyerswerda: A Foreign Worker’s Life in the GDR and Reunited Germany, Part 2
Hockey Night in Hohenschönhausen: Dieter Frenzel and East German Ice Hockey
Duty Calls: Dieter Frenzel and the GDR’s National Hockey Team
Perry Friedman – S/T
“Day of Decision” and Joachim Gauck
Construction Time Again and Who Was Johanna Goldberg?
This East German Life: A Different Johanna Goldberg, Pt. 1
This East German Life: A Different Johanna Goldberg, Pt. 2
This East German Life: A Different Johanna Goldberg, Pt. 3
“If I’d been ordered to shoot, I would have.” – An Officer of the National People’s Army Remembers the Wende
An Opportunist Knocks: Wende Winners
This East German Life 2: Christel B. Makes Her Way, Pt. 1
This East German Life 2: Benno B. and the Bread of Those Early Years, Pt. 2
This East German Life 2: Comrade Benno B. – One of the Reliable Ones, Pt. 3
“You had to think on two tracks”: One family’s survival strategy within GDR state socialism
Visits With The Old Lady: “It has never been as bad as it is now!”
Cities & Towns
Berlin – Capital of the German Democratic Republic
Berlin Wall
“Gorbi! Gorbi!” – Fear and Hope in East Berlin
The Final Victim of the Berlin Wall: Chris Gueffroy
Fragments – Berlin Wall
“The Wall Through Berlin (12 genuine photos)” – Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall at 52 or What I Did This Summer
Wall Fall 25 – The Bitter With The Sweet
“Mr. Kleiner, you have misunderstood!” – 24 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Historical Memory and Berlin’s East Side Gallery
Before The Wall: Berlin, February/March 1960
Telesparagus: The Berlin TV Tower
The Wild East: Divided Berlin in 1962
Walter Womacka and East Berlin’s Socialist Face
Karl-Marx-Allee
Lend me your ear? – East Berlin’s Karl-Marx-Allee
Marzahn: The Pros and (All The Mod) Cons
Palace of the Republic
Mocha cups – Palace of the Republic
Fruit knife – Palace of the Republic
Commemorative stamp and medal – Palace of the Republic
Formo Building Block set – Palace of the Republic
Ermeler House: Historical Preservation GDR-style
Berlin, June 1990: Familiar and Distant
Field Trip: Bonn – Pt. I
Field Trip: Bonn – Pt. II
Field Trip: Chemnitz / Karl-Marx-Stadt
The Hartha They Fall: After the Wende in the eastern German Provinz
Leipzig: Big City Lights
How I spent my Christmas vacation
Leuna and Buna, Pt. I: Industry and History
Leuna & Buna Pt. II: A Worker’s Life
Leuna and Buna Pt. III: Environmental Disturbances
Oberhof: The GDR’s Socialist Winter Paradise
Socialist Cities
Tom Hanks and I in Eisenhüttenstadt
Eisenhüttenstadt (2008): “We learned to build cities, not tear them down.”
Hoyerswerda: Hungover in Utopia (2006)
Hoyerswerda Slight Return: Revisiting the GDR’s Second Socialist City (2008)
Schwedt: “A Sanssouci of Socialism”
Halle-Neustadt: Where the Streets Had No Name
Field Trip: Halle an der Saale, Pt. I
Field Trip: Halle an der Saale, Pt. II
Culture
Radio GDR Podcast: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Radio GDR Podcast: Musik in der DDR – Rock and Pop Music of East Germany, Part I
Radio GDR Podcast: Pop & Politics in the GDR, Part 2
Radio GDR Podcast: Pop & Politics in the GDR, Part 3
Amiga Records
We Got The Beatles: “Beatmusik” in the GDR
Billy Bragg – S/T
Foreigner – Records
Perry Friedman – S/T
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A.
Satire GDR Style
Master and Servant: Depeche Mode in East Berlin
The Red Woodstock: 10th World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin
Festival of ‘Red October’, East Berlin in 1977
Shuffling Off to East Berlin: Canadian Jazz in “The Capital of the GDR”
Neue Berliner Illustrierte: It’s a lot like LIFE
Sibylle: Haute Couture GDR-style
State of the Art and the Art of the State – Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen
“History in Twenty Pictures”: Berlin’s Magdalenenstr. U-Bahn
“On The Way” to a Brighter, Socialist Future? – Uwe Pfeifer’s Ambivalent Art
Field Trip: Neues Deutschland (Berlin/Friedrichshain)
Sport
The GDR Objectified Field Trip: Montreal
An Olympic-sized Dream is born: An Elite-Level Sporting Career in the GDR, pt. I
An Olympic-sized Dream: An Elite-Level Sporting Career in the GDR, pt. II
GDR Gymnastics and Sport Festival: Sport, Pomp and Politics
Duty Calls: Dieter Frenzel and the GDR’s National Hockey Team
The GDR and the World Cup: “Hamburg ’74”
GDR Cultural Policy and the Wende at Ironworkers’ Stadium, November 1989
Get With the Program! – GDR Soccer Programs as Socialist Pedagogy
The Darth Vaders of East German Soccer: BFC Dynamo
“Iron Union!”: East Berlin’s Favourite Football Team
Best. Team. Ever. – The All-Time GDR-Oberliga Table in Beer Glasses
The Oberliga apron, The Good Person of Stötteritz and an East German Soccer Hero
Oberliga Echoes: Soccer in post-Wende Leipzig
Hockey Night in Hohenschönhausen: Dieter Frenzel and East German Ice Hockey
Society
Consumption
Housewares
It’s in the Bag – Shopping bags in the GDR
Strange currencies: Money in the GDR
Rotkäppchen: the Champagne of the GDR
“Teacher you can drive my car!” – the GDR’s “Volkswagen”, the Trabant
Trabants in Canada or How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Musik Hans Tappert and the Practicalities of Music Scarcity
Everyday Life
Erich Honecker, “The Grave Digger of the Nation” and 1983
GDR at 25: An Anvil not a Hammer?
“Out to the First of May!”
May Day or Markus’ Birthday
“No More Fig Leaves”: Junge Welt on November 7, 1989
From A(lexanderplatz) to Z(ossen): Public Transit in East Berlin
On Pins and Needles: Acknowledging Socialism’s Good and Faithful Servants
“Free Body Culture”: Nudism, Me and Eastern Germany
Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: The Sandman
“Out to the First of May!” – Celebrating Socialism in the GDR
“My workplace: where I fight for peace”: the World Day of Peace in the GDR
Get ‘Em While They’re Young!: “Socialist Confirmation” and the Creation of the “Socialist Personality”
Year-end figures with wings we have heard on high . . .
Christmas Music Box or Trojan Horse?
Weekend Warriors – East German style: Militarization of the GDR – Pt. 1
Desperately Seeking Secretary: Reflections on Notions of Labour and Autonomy in the GDR
Old Comrade Coal: Lignite Mining in the GDR
Home is where the house book is . . . – Part 1
Home is where the house book is . . . Part 2
Dear Comrade Diary: Workers’ Voices from Bitterfeld
Eastern Eden: Allotment Gardens in the GDR
Documentation Centre for Everyday Life in GDR Endangered!
Mass Organizations
With Friends Like These: The Society for German-Soviet Friendship
Culture
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