Consuming Communism: Material Cultures of Nostalgia in Former East Germany
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Ostalgieis perhaps the most high profile case regarding the phenomena of sympathetic sentiments for the vanished socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe. Many years after the filmGood Bye LeninmadeOstalgie– the German neologism for nostalgia for the former socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), also known as East Germany – into a household word, the phenomenon has not faded but rather become a stable part of the tourist and commercial landscape. Today, Berlin’s tourist office promotes the GDR Museum, where ‘the kitchen still has the cooking smells of way back when’, and the Trabi Safari where... |
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