Schlagwort-Archiv: GDR

GDR 2.0? Does the Peace Movement Need a Vision for the Future?

by Andreas Peglau

Lecture delivered on March 28, 2026, at the Brigitte Reimann Literature House in Neubrandenburg[1]

 

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What I can offer you today is not an academic overview, but rather a mix of facts, personal experiences, and subjective assessments.

I assume that most of you also have roots in the GDR. I am aware that this may evoke very different experiences for you than it does for me. That is probably why you will not agree with everything I say; you may know some things not only differently, but also better. We can then use the discussion to compare our perspectives.

It was not easy for me to write down what I am about to read to you. I began thinking about this back in December—and was still polishing my text just yesterday. Once again, I realized: I am not done with the GDR, neither in a good way nor in a bad way.[2] Weiterlesen →

GDR 2.0 – or where do we live today?

Andrea Drescher in dialogue with Andreas Peglau[1]

 

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Many alternative online media outlets claim that we are living in GDR 2.0—an assertion that I find questionable. Journalists from mostly conservative media outlets often refer to the socialist policies of today’s governments. How accurate is this comparison?  Weiterlesen →

Did the German Democratic Republic (GDR) produce more „right-wing“ attitudes than the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)? No – quite the opposite.

by Andreas Peglau[1]  

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In 1992, two years after the GDR’s annexation to the FRG, a social science study came to the following conclusion: the „proportion of East Germans expressing anti-Semitic, right-wing extremist or xenophobic views“ was „lower than the corresponding proportion of West Germans. German citizens in the East take the consequences of the Nazi past for the present more seriously.“ Weiterlesen →