They don't want communism back. But East German history, culture and traditions are part of their identity. When I talked to Valerie Schönian, she had just celebrated her 30th birthday.

Humanities, Vol. 7, Issue. 3, p. 88. This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in ...

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East German culture disappeared practically overnight, cast aside for the newly ...

That has given the AfD space to argue that it is defending German culture by attacking the school and its legacy - including the clean, airy lines of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's architecture or Marcel ...