EAST WEST
East/West Characterising
Toilet attendant: “this in nothing yet.”
“I don’t know if it’s a threat or a boast. This is what they call Berliner Schnaeize –snont. Its attitude; it in your face.”
Anna: “I liked the sweeping rouge of words from ‘heartfelt’ to ‘heartsick’. And I liked the order, the directness that I imagined in the people.”
On the former GDR “….its bewildered people.”
“The demonstrators, in shock, obediently pulled their cards from their wallets. Then they seized the buildings.”
“They are just a bunch of downtrodden whingers,” Scheller.
East Germans kept fighting against capitalism “more thoroughly and with more pedantic enthusiasm that the Poles and Hungarians, the Czech, or the Russians themselves. They never wanted to stop.”
Stasi psychologist describes why people were so willing to make sure their “neighbour was doing the right thing.” He describes German mentality as “a certain drive for order and thoroughness and stuff like that.”
Cleaning lady in Stasi HQ: “You know there’s no real unity in this country, even after seven years…
Did you know that im the suburb of Kreuzberg in West Berlin they wanted the wall back! To protect them from us!”
Anna: “All I understand is that it only took forty years to create two very different kind of Germans and that it will be a while before those differences are gone.”
“…This land of merciless punctuality.”
“This pool must be the subconscious of he country: the mess that gives rise to all that order.”
“Too many rules (at the pool)
On the drunken who no longer wants to be German “And were his people, now broke or drunk, shamed or fled or imprisoned or dead, and good at all?”
Used to see West Germans as the “bad ones”
Toilet attendant: “this in nothing yet.”
“I don’t know if it’s a threat or a boast. This is what they call Berliner Schnaeize –snont. Its attitude; it in your face.”
Anna: “I liked the sweeping rouge of words from ‘heartfelt’ to ‘heartsick’. And I liked the order, the directness that I imagined in the people.”
On the former GDR “….its bewildered people.”
“The demonstrators, in shock, obediently pulled their cards from their wallets. Then they seized the buildings.”
“They are just a bunch of downtrodden whingers,” Scheller.
East Germans kept fighting against capitalism “more thoroughly and with more pedantic enthusiasm that the Poles and Hungarians, the Czech, or the Russians themselves. They never wanted to stop.”
Stasi psychologist describes why people were so willing to make sure their “neighbour was doing the right thing.” He describes German mentality as “a certain drive for order and thoroughness and stuff like that.”
Cleaning lady in Stasi HQ: “You know there’s no real unity in this country, even after seven years…
Did you know that im the suburb of Kreuzberg in West Berlin they wanted the wall back! To protect them from us!”
Anna: “All I understand is that it only took forty years to create two very different kind of Germans and that it will be a while before those differences are gone.”
“…This land of merciless punctuality.”
“This pool must be the subconscious of he country: the mess that gives rise to all that order.”
“Too many rules (at the pool)
On the drunken who no longer wants to be German “And were his people, now broke or drunk, shamed or fled or imprisoned or dead, and good at all?”
Used to see West Germans as the “bad ones”