GER100 Lecture Notes - Ostalgie, Phantom Limb, Nuclear Winter
16 Mar 2013
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26 november 2012: similar to the phantom limb phenomena. Reinvented as the volkswagen the people"s car : german nickname, caffer, the beatle. Hensel basically states that former east german children were not a part of this generation. The forerunner of the trabant: awz p70 (1955-57: the p stands for plastic. Next was the trabant p50 (1957-62: the basic means of transport for many east germans, the epitome of socialism: it was bad, it wasn"t very efficient, but it somehow managed . In recent years, people have attempted to bring back the trabant as a modern, electric vehicle. Not that much diversity in car choices unless one was to import a car from russia, yugoslavia, or. In particular, i want to demonstrate that the products of the gdr have acquired a new life, and thus a new validity as the material witnesses of a discourse community that bases its identity in the shared knowledge .
