Quotes About Gdr

#1. For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.

Anna Funder

#2. Julia and her family, like many others in the GDR, trod this line between seeing things for what they were in the GDR, and ignoring those realities in order to stay sane.

Anna Funder

#3. A Western writer came up to me and said, how come nobody at this demonstration spoke of German unity? I told him, because it isn't on the agenda. People were interested in having another, better GDR, another, better socialism.

Stefan Heym

#4. But there was also a car - for the GDR an expensive car, a Russian Lada - that

Anna Funder

#5. It was a condition of sanity both to accept 'GDR-logic' and to ignore it. 'If you took things as seriously as people in the west think we must have, we would have all killed ourselves!

Anna Funder

#6. Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [ ... ]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).

Gunter Schabowski

#7. Apparently, even in the GDR, sleep deprivation amounted to torture, and torture, at least of minors, was not official policy.

Anna Funder

#8. Brandenburg Beer War," fought out in the courts, lasted for ten years - all over a black beer brewed in the former GDR that contained sugar, something forbidden by the Purity Law.

Neil MacGregor

#9. If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.

Stefan Heym

#10. I never felt the GDR was my home country.

Angela Merkel

#11. The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee itself.

Anna Funder

#12. The history of the GDR journalism is a story of partisanship.

Patrick Conley

#13. By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.

Luke Harding

#14. Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.

Steven Tyler

#15. I'm a homebody, but I make people come to me, like, 'Everyone just come over, and we can have fun at my house.' I love to entertain.

Erin Heatherton

#16. IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.

Fritz Kreisler

#17. The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#18. You see the mistakes of one system - the surveillance - and the mistakes of the other - the inequality - but there's nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel.

Anna Funder

#19. There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

Anna Funder

#20. I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

Anna Funder

#21. If I would have known I was going to leave my job that day to become a writer, I probably would have planned differently... It didn't come by way of illness per se, accident, or dismissal, but by way of sheer self-mutiny. The self I was born to be, decided to hijack the one I had created.

Dawn Kohler

#22. like they were about to enjoy a meal together.

T.M. Frazier

#23. Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.

Anna Funder

#24. Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Anna Funder