A commentary on the Book: lost time? DDR-life stories, in retrospect - a collection of interviews / photographs with Portrait Monique Ulrich
Maybe the past would prefer to call the future Verlag publishing house? ...
... and perhaps young historians past describe unbiased and honest
exactly eighteen life stories written by young historians, but are not a representative cross-section of life in the former GDR, but a significant contribution of wisdom to a better understanding of processes, ways of life and in two former countries, which border both sides of the former probably many years to come Declaration requirements will trigger.
For the book "Lost time?" describes conditions of a fallen Republic, may be better incorporated in a Republic, describes some of the few hereditary radicals of the work of our fathers and forefathers, from which one but your honest, fair and correct especially! should derive conclusions for the future. A property that we Germans have gone many times, we describe the iconoclast, the weavers revolt or many major accomplishments of the people in the former GDR. But that's precisely what that is those that joined had hoped and been disappointed in many ways. Perhaps this book is a little those eyes open, that were never in the former East Germany, but wanted even before knowing all the people there moving and for this - just such propaganda knowledge, as once in the GDR - derived conclusions in the next few decades will reverberate. If even the Rhineland or Bayer or the Lower Saxony and Saarland, reading this book, the "red" Hans Modrow perhaps baiting, ideology, imputes Communist hard-liner body and propaganda or Herbert Mießlitz condemned for its "Western" theory, so does the book but also to the words of those people who can not unconditional loyalty system is said to have. Here comes the scientist Hans Misselwitz to the conclusion that one gets one's freedom as a gift from anyone, and also the singer of Pankow, Andre Herzberg was not sure, the adaptation and self-submission was proper. The interview with the author Klaus Kordon also speaks "volumes" by running before the start of his interview that he would not appear anywhere in a band with DDR-Schön speakers between two covers. There is a priest who comes to word and a nurse, also with in the dance, to show that an effort was made by the young author team but to the collection of opinions and attitudes of broad sections of the population of the former GDR.
A word here about the authors. I think it's good, strong and brave, to take up the story that many politicians today want to hide you. I think it's good that they are putting forward to a iconoclasm occurred, like always in Germany to breaks aimed at condemning the past or to deify make, bad, or to lift into the sky, absolutely devastating to deal with this. The fact that this time and a lot of good people, have done much good even under a different regime than the current one, that they had well designed and has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with generalizing glorification of DDR! It has to do simply with the fact that our young writers are now on the right track to realize that home and people not connected to a draped to do generalized ideological prejudice and already have nothing to do with a ruling on his own ignorance. Though there may not have their own experiences to the image of a thing, yet it is not as honest and fair to his fellow human beings to interpret the Challenging and truthfully. We owe these young people very much.
I have read this book, have in many of these life stories of their own, which again found my family, my friends, my fathers, as well as the formative influences of the growing rift between East and West, by the propaganda of both Pages to motivate its citizens were being exploited. I could feel, find reviews, in life, are "our former" East German citizens from the soul spoken. Simply because this was our life, had to just because we were born into a system in which we seek our place and only work out and fight. Because had seventeen million East Germans cope well in sclerotic state structures, as did 68 million Germans. A fact that is now a popular swept under the table, not only of politics but also like the economy, reached with the accession of astronomical profits in times of crisis and the - admittedly very ailing economy - ausschaltete mercilessly. What was destroyed in order to advance science and technology, in research, education, health and safety potential of a little arrogant and big man addicted will not be in decades to catch up again. Just as mercilessly, as was then driven in the following years by an unprecedented privatization action, the living conditions of hundreds of thousands of families from one day to the other from the government-sanctioned security and safety in the basic needs of the capitalist, which has now auszubaden the state.
Perhaps this collection of interviews made good on the way to reduce prejudices and reservations on both sides, generalizing elements from the East-West debate to eliminate. In any case, it is a good work on the way to a better mutual understanding, fair or friendly encounter between citizens of the two erstwhile enemies made "German states. And so at the very beginning of actually offered the same eye level, to everyone's advantage. A trait that miss many of the citizens acceded to the old Federal Republic as painful as the solidarity among and between them. Maybe it even lives in the discussion of a far-reaching reform of democratic structures, in the opinion of many people is long overdue, but hardly realized with activism as the station project Stuttgart 21 purposeful can. In any case, I author, interviewer, editor, and understood, first of all the interviewees, it should be a well-meant contributing to the development of society in a democracy, all determined to work on the Germans happy.
Jürgen Haase (freelance journalist)
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