In 1980s East Germany, there was a group of independent fashion designers, photographers, models and stylists who refused to play along with the socialist regime’s excessive egalitarianism. They ...
At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.
Beyond the Wall. By Katja Hoyer. Allen Lane; 496 pages; £25. To be published in America by Basic Books in September; $35 In the eyes of its critics, the communist-run part of Germany was never a ...
Vladimir Putin was a married KGB officer, living in comfort in East Germany, when the world as he knew it collapsed around him. As the regime of his host nation fell in December 1989, Putin watched as ...
Contemporary works are casting a new light on sentimentality for Communism. By Evan Moffitt WHEN THE ARTIST Henrike Naumann first saw “The Flintstones” on TV, she thought it depicted what life was ...
Hoyer has several important advantages that Steinbeck and Capa lacked. East Germany’s fearsome internal security apparatus is long gone, which means her surviving subjects are free to speak openly ...
No major combat incidents occurred in the GDR, but the S-200 system’s presence deterred potential aggressors, aligning with Warsaw Pact exercises and Soviet oversight. East Germany was at the ...
An exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum explores the Jewish experience in the authoritarian, and officially atheist, communist state throughout the Cold War era. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Berlin ...
EXCLUSIVE: Jörg Winger and his Sam – A Saxon co-creator Tyron Ricketts believe the time is now right to tell the story of East Germany’s first Black policeman after a near-20-year period of shopping ...
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