Weekly Blog on my Life in East Germany

Yes, we did have televisions, cars and refrigerators in East Germany. We also had kindergartens, nudist beaches, Russian champagne, and military education at school. And – NO – Hitler was not alive anymore.  

In 1989, about a quarter of a century ago, the Berlin wall came down, and East Germany disappeared from the map. Once in a while I “travel back” to this country of my childhood and youth, recalling and wondering about curious customs and bewildering behavior, peculiar products and extraordinary creations, political plans and cultural concepts of the people of this state.

Sending you weekly NOTES from my imaginary journeys, I am writing to you about the forgotten treasures of childhood and youth, and the (almost) repressed memories of dictation and control.