GER403 11/1/2004 Review of the test: I) 3) Ostpolitik bedeutet wie man sich zu Osten verh?lt; Entspannungspolitik (D?tente) auch 6) Ludwig Erhard Prosperity for all (Wohlstand f?r Alle) Point of grammar: When specific is used as an adverb modifying an adjective it has no adjective ending (specifisch Deutsche Weg) Gerhardt Zwerenz (225-228) -- belonged to a group of artists and reformers who were members of the SED but wanted to change it, especially freedom of the press -- other big names were Bloch, Mayer, Zwerenz, Loest, Bilke -- Bilke war ein Student in Mainz aber er ging nach Liepzig -- parodies Die Bibel der Zehn Geboten -- the eastern newspapers always highlighted the strikes in the Western countries to show how dissatisfied were (however the Communist workers weren't allowed to strike!) -- geschult -- hierarchy in this society: wir Funktion?re und ganz unten die w?hlende Massen -- freigeheimgleiher Wahl; Kabine (voting booth); only the people voting against the SED needed a private voting booth! -- to leave for the West is Republikflucht -- Hinweis auf Bertolt Brecht "Die L?sung" (S. 227) -- reasons why he had to leave -- because the newspapers were boring! (When Dr Himmel came to the US in 1975, she gave a lecture in Amherst; she was surprised by the tone of questions from leftist Americans, saying they were the same as in East Germany; Dr Himmel was attacked as b?rgerlich) -- because modern art such as by Picasso was forbidden; der Sozialistische Realismus was an official kind of art in the DDR -- because they betrayed their origins (Herkunft verraten); sie jetzt Function?re sind -- Diktateur der Brutali?t -- because of Hungary J?rg Bilke, 242 -- er war zwei Jahre in der Haft (die Stasi, der Staatssicherheitsdienst) -- his mother was arrested while he was ein Obersch?ler for listening to Western broadcasts -- you have to forget what you once owned (collectiviation) -- Maxim Gorki was the one who defined Socialistic Realism with Stalin -- Aufbauliteratur; Auferstanden aus Ruinen; "unlesbar" -- people had to have special permission to read Marx in the DDR (243) -- political prisoners (especially West Germans) were treated more harshly in prison than regular criminals (wie Buber Neumann) -- prisons were fixed because by 1970 they weren't supposed to need prisons any more (similar to Buber Neumann -- der neue sozialistiche Mensch after all the schooling, schoolng, schooling) Biermann (S 258) -- Die Stasi-Ballade -- Dr Hye wanted to hear this at a Biermann concert in Columbus but Biermann wouldn't sing it -- Biermann was a Marxist but is dangerous to the DDR because he always wants to speak the truth -- another Goethe parodie -- first Absatz was over Gretchen and Mother of Sorrows; second was over J.P. Eckermann, Goethe's confidant -- he has no Angst of thieves because he has a private bodyguard (but would they help him?) -- individual terror's not very Stalinistic but mass terror is fine -- he says the Stasi keeps him from having affairs, making him a better writer -- Havemann war der Professor, der Reform wollte -- he feels as if he's already in custody; Gef?ngnis in normalen Leben -- Bautzen was a special prison for political prisoners Haveman (S. 254) -- he was a Marxist but compares fascism and neo-Stalinism -- line 20 Alfred Kantorowicz (S. 213) -- gave up prominent positions to leave the DDR -- also gave up his library of books and notes -- all for Freiheit</plaintext><br /></body></html>