Recharting the Skies above Berlin: Nostalgia East and West
2005 ◽
Vol 23
(1)
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pp. 39-57
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In the now almost fifteen years since the rush to German unity, East Germany's remembering of its lost cultural objects and social practices has already established a rich history of its own. The first product to become a prominent symbol of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was the Trabant (Trabi). An unattractive, inefficient, obnoxiously loud car manufactured in the GDR, it went overnight from being an object for which many East Germans waited expectantly for several years to be able to purchase to an antiquated, undesired relic. The brunt of some of the first Ossie jokes, it also quickly became a symbol for East German resistance to an arrogant West German dismissal of all that was the GDR.
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2020 ◽
Vol 1(21)
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pp. 37-51
2010 ◽
Vol 43
(3)
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pp. 484-507
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1993 ◽
Vol 2
(3)
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pp. 265-282
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