" #UweSteimle grüßte seinen „Freund“ #Chrupalla und stimmte nach der „Kleinen, weißen Friedenstaube“ auch die #DDR -Hymne an, der frühere Linke-Politiker #DieterDehm sang eine umgedichtete Version der Nationalhymne, die mit „Deutschland, Deutschland über alles“ beginnt."
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Today, #UweSteimle bounces around the populist right and left, attending AfD campaign stops, using Reichsbürger slogans, and spreading pro-Putin "peace" messages advanced by Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht. In October 2024 he hosted a long interview with the Russian ambassador on his YouTube channel.
MDR broke ties with #UweSteimle in 2019 over his repeated claims that there was no independent media in Germany, and that it is under occupation by Americans. www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/uw...
In recent years #UweSteimle finds a following among the populist right, and critics point to antisemitism, racism and Nazi expressions in his work. www.mz.de/lokal/halle-...
#UweSteimle has made his name through Ostalgie humour, often featuring his impression of Erich Honecker. In addition he played a detective for 15 years on the TV show Polizeiruf 110, and from 2013-2019 had his own comedic show Steimles Welt on MDR, travelling throughout the eastern Bundesländer.
#UweSteimle told Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in 2008 that he learned after their deaths that both parents worked for the Stasi, and that he was proud of them. www.fr.de/rhein-main/o... + www.bild.de/leute/star-n...
Who is #UweSteimle, who introduced Ostalgie in 1992? The son of an NVA staff sargeant and a packaging production worker in Dresden. His mother died in 1992, followed by the suicide of his father the same year.
Revisiting the framing of eastern German nostalgia, or #Ostalgie, now with a longer historical view, I explored the curious case of #UweSteimle. Steimle is a Dresdner Kabarettist who coined the term, titling his 1992 show ‘Ostalgie.’ A thread: