Rock Music in the GDR and the Eastern Bloc

Well known Deep Purple "Water Smoke" is about to open Andreas Dresen's movie "Change the Skin" (Raus aus der Haut, 1997). This movie is held in a crowded music club where young people enthusiastically dance and are held through rock and roll. This may be an old explanation of youth culture if the youth culture is not in the country repressing this music, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It is therefore worth thinking about the social and political controversies of the former East Germany and even allowing for the rock music performances of the 1970s even those imported from the capitalist world.

Democracy is the ruler who calls himself the "dictatorship of proletariat", and it is ruled by political parties, German Socialist Unification Party (SED). But democratic Germany is part of the eastern group and therefore always depends on the political development of the Soviet Union. Many citizens of the German Democratic Party believe in the principles of socialism and accept the need for difficulties and restrictions brought about by the development of comprehensive communism. However, some people object to "existing socialism" of the German Democratic Republic, including many cultural representatives. They are more or less critic and candid. Many people run away or "escape from the Republic", but this is a crime worthy of punishment. In well - known cases, the state maintains silence by forcing these criticisms to leave ("Zwangsausbü¼ rgerung" = forced transfer).

Life of others (Germany, 2005) AS / A 2 film and media research guide Dir. Florian Henkel Fond Nurse Marc

In November 9, 1989, in the wave of the revolution that dominated the Eastern Group, high German officials in the East Germany announced that all East German citizens (GDR) can freely visit West Berlin and West Germany. Thousands of East Germans quickly crossed the border. The East German border guard did not object to them. A crowd of East Germany crossed over it and crossed it, and soon German people joined the atmosphere of the opposite celebration. In the next few weeks part of the wall was destroyed. The collapse of the Berlin Wall opens the way to unification of Germany. And it ended officially on October 3, 1990.