Life in the Communist-ruled German Democratic Republic (GDR) was simpler and sometimes could be “almost comfortable in a certain way”, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in the former East ...

This thorough and useful little work is, I take it, the first full-length study of the development of SF in the German Democratic Republic (or more precisely ... In addition, the critical debates in ...

The rise of Beatlemania in the 1960s brought a scathing response from Walter Ulbricht, the leader of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). "Do we really have to copy all the rubbish that comes ...

Once Misjudged and Banned: Promoting the Musical Heritage in the GDR and Discourse Surrounding the 1959 Felix Mendelssohn Festwoche. Twentieth-Century Music, Vol. 16, Issue. 2, p. 319. Classical music ...

The story of East German athletes, exemplified by Jürgen Straub's clean victory, is a poignant reminder of the human cost of ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called on Thursday for more information on forced labour in the former German ...

Germany's Alex Popp has narrowly missed out on being elected as the first soccer player in her nation's history to carry the ...

which were in the Soviet zone of influence and included the socialist German Democratic Republic (East Germany). There were half a million Soviet soldiers stationed in East Germany. And the GDR's ...

Barbara Honigmann was born in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1949. She is the daughter of German / Hungarian Jewish parents, who returned to live in East Germany in 1947 after a period ...

Scholarship about him is abundant and diverse. One aspect, however, seems to have been ignored until now: Mahler's reception in the GDR. This essay is an introduction to this topic that will also add ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called on Thursday for more information on forced labour in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) and for holding former profiteers in the West ...