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Can you produce art in a dictatorship?

Or: East German art in the dustbin of history

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Katja Hoyer
Oct 26, 2025
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A window in the former State Council Building in Berlin.

The German language has acquired strange new phrases since I emigrated. Spend enough time in a different country and your mother tongue moves o…

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