Best East Berlin Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Kids in tje East had also grown up with a genuine sense of fear that the world might actually come to an end during their lifetime. That it probably would in fact. For some this fueled nihilistic feelings - one reason Toster from Die Anderen, for instance, never got deeply political was because he stopped giving a shit.”

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Book:Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Source: Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

“And as the Stasi began to pay more and more attention to the new network, they made the same mistake they had when trying to break up the punk scene a few years before: they sought to identify leaders and focus on undermining them. The Stasi assumed every organisation had a top-down structure like the Stasi, like the Party, like the dictatorship.”

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Book:Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Source: Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

“A softly-spoken German man points to a window on the third floor of a tall building and says, "My grandfather is sitting in that room." Planting his feet wide apart, the man begins to wave, his arm sweeping through the air in a huge arc. We all step back to give him enough room.If I let my vision swim out of focus, this seems like an ordinary day with an ordinary man greeting someone he loves across the street. "I'm not expecting to see him again," he says. But he waves on and on, hoping his grandfather has spotted him. The Englishmen look away.”

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Book:Tying Down the Lion

Source: Tying Down the Lion

“In hindsight, it's seen as inevitable that the two Germany's would reunite. But none of the people who had laid the groundwork for the fall-those who had started the tremors and endured the security forces' brutality-envisioned a unified Germany. Those people had sacrificed their places in society for the chance to form a new one, something different and distinct, an independent East Germany built form scratch. The hadn't looked to the West for inspiration before, and none of them looked to the West for salvation now that the border was open.”

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Book:Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Source: Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

“The ethos of East Berlin punk infused the city with a radical egalitarianism and a DIY approach to maintaining independence-to conjuring up the world you want to live in regardless of the situation or surroundings.”

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Book:Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Source: Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

“She just wanted to be herself, and doing, saying, reading and writing the things that would have made her feel like herself were all verboten.”

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Book:Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Source: Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

“I remember I went to Berlin right after the Wall came down. I first went to East Berlin, and all the buildings were old and falling down, and now when you go back to Berlin, you know you're in the East because all the buildings are brand new and very tall.”

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Author:Moby

“It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.”

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Author:Enoch Powell

“I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.”

“I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.”

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Author:Nina Hagen

“Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.”

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Author:Bruce Sterling

“Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.”

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Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“Okay, NATO expanded to East Berlin and East Germany. Under [Bill] Clinton NATO expanded further, to the former Russian satellites. In 2008 NATO formally made an offer to Ukraine to join NATO. That's unbelievable. I mean, Ukraine is the geopolitical heartland of Russian concern, quite aside from historical connections, population and so on.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.”

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Author:Irving Berlin

“Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal.”

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.”

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Author:Nina Hagen