Photo of a sketch of Chemnitz New Townhall. Taken in front of the building. White ink on black paper.
Photo of a panorama sketch of Chemnitz Old Townhall, taken on location. White ink on black paper, in sketchbook.
Chemnitz New and Old Townhall. White ink on black sketchbook paper.
#chemnitz #usk #urbansketching #townhall #architecture #whiteink #blackpaper #sketchbook #springsketch #germany #saxony #eastgermany #sachsen
![[Original post: photo of a 1960s-style living room, wood-coloured themed, including photos on the wall, a black and white television, and books on shelves]
Living room display in the DDR museum in Berlin
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This museum was designed to showcase how tacky the GDR was, but the evolution of Europe in the subsequent decades, where young people cannot access housing, complicates that intended reading of the exhibition today](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:utkcibnhxdz3tvx7flgb6grn/bafkreiceb5oapmlmkkqtdykdbel2gju3npi75mjrdwz3mbxwcub44muwra)
[Original post: photo of a 1960s-style living room, wood-coloured themed, including photos on the wall, a black and white television, and books on shelves] Living room display in the DDR museum in Berlin [Reply] This museum was designed to showcase how tacky the GDR was, but the evolution of Europe in the subsequent decades, where young people cannot access housing, complicates that intended reading of the exhibition today
"Would you want to live like that?" You mean as opposed to not being able to find a house at all? Yeah, kinda
#gdr #germany #eastgermany #berlin #communism #socialism #anticapitalism #EatTheRich #FeedThePoor #housing #squatting #SquatTheWorld #KrakenGaatDoor #activism
The debate on East German identities and subjectivities needs a historical perspective. You want to know more about my thoughts on that? Check my new review article in @conteurohistory.bsky.social, published in Open Access 👇
#EastGermany
#GermanHistory
#GDR
How long til the #trumpregime switches from kicking people out, to keeping all us Americans born here from leaving??? like #EastGermany #Hungary #Czechoslovakia et al #IronCurtain 1940s-1990s Look it up kids, it was an actual thing.
#WorldCup1974 #1974worldcup
#JürgenSparwasser signing autographs in a hotel in Ratingen.
#EastGermany.
An interior view of an abandoned, mould-plagued Neo-Gothic church with wooden pews. Insets show an organ and map. Text: New Location Abandoned historic Neo-Gothic church, plagued by black mould Sunday 8pm (UK).
⛪ 🇩🇪 A dilapidated red brick bell tower rises above the tree line, atop a small hill in a German village. A neo-Gothic silhouette that is increasingly blurred by encroaching trees.
Post-reunification attendance dropped, and the church closed in the 1990s. Lack […]
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An abandoned, decaying grand ballroom with a peeling ornate ceiling, debris-strewn floor
Ballsaal Sandkorn. An abandoned ballroom in East Germany. Before the Berlin Wall fell, every town and village had a dance hall like this one.
www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/ballsaal-sandkor...
#Germany #EastGermany […]
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Yellow sports hall, ruined wooden floor
Dark sports hall with basket ball hoop
Large sports hall with basketball markings
An abandoned, decaying Soviet-era sports hall with debris scattered across the floor and trees growing indoors
A collection of abandoned Soviet-era sports halls from the former USSR and East Germany. These spaces remain largely as they were left when the Soviet forces retreated in the early 1990s. Now they are relics from a different time, rotting in place as the world […]
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#berlinwall #berlinhistory #coldwar #eastgermany #westberlin #berlin #berlinlife #berlinstagram #history #historylovers #wallofberlin #berlinmemories #visitberlin #berlinphotography #berlinart #streetartberlin #eastsidegallery #coldwarhistory #historicberlin #germanyhistory
Today to Minigroove!
RECORDS & BOOKS
SIMON-VON-UTRECHTSTR.17
HAMBURG ST.PAULI GERMANY
#minigroove #stpauli #hamburgstpauli #reeperbahn #hamburgreeperbahn #spielbudenplatz #ostrock #amigarecords #Amiga #ddr #eastgermany #plattenladen #hamburg #recordshop #recordstore #elbphilharmonie #vinyl
Read "The Devil's Alternative - Frederick Forsyth" 1979: #Ukraine #Russia #USA #UK #Germany #EastGermany #USSR #Power #War #Israel #Empire interests. #Resources #Politics #Spy. Alas no movie/mini-series.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. #Books #Reading
This abandoned, fire-damaged ballroom features a decaying ceiling, debris on the floor, and a stage with yellow curtains.
An abandoned ballroom, one of many that sit decaying in what once was East Germany.
The stunning late 1800s example retains most of its original features, from the mustard-coloured curtains that line the stage to the retro pendant light fitting hanging from the […]
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An abandoned nine-pin bowling alley, somewhere in Germany 🇩🇪
The was built for nearby factory workers in the 1950s.
By the 1980s it was abandoned and left to decay. The wooden floorboards are now rotting and splintered, with sapling trees beginning to grow […]
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Intervw w/Gregor #Gysi, once famed anti-Establishment #EastGermany lawyer, since then leading LeftWing politician;
Claims to give Chancellor Merz tips on how to handle Trump, AS IF the Orange One would ever consent2B in same room with this hyper-socialist😃!
The US et al. left #USSR holding the east when the FRG/BRD (#WestGermany) was created, so the #DDR (#EastGermany) was spun off. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1950 its #Stasi (state #SecretPolice) was formed. I use the excellent film #TheLivesOfOthers in a class:
zurl.co/R2z1H
#OpenAcces
“Contradiplomacy and Solidarity:
Spanish and East German Communists
in the Context of Relations between Francoist Spain
and the GDR (1949–1977)
By @javihaller.bsky.social
sd.usd.cas.cz/pdfs/sod/202...
#Spain #EastGermany #antifascism #coldwar #Franco #DDR #communistparty #communism
#WestGermany v #EastGermany
#UliHoeness outruns defender #LotharKurbjuweit in Hamburg.
#WorldCup1974 #1974worldcup
Peaceful Revolution, East Germany, 1989
Peaceful protests toppled East Germany’s regime and tore down the wall to German reunification.
#PeacefulRevolution #HeyRubino #eastgermany #teardownthewall #germany #resistfascism
