The Null Device
East Germany, 1990
Der Spiegel has some
evocative photographs from East Germany
, taken by West German photographer Karlheinz Jardner in 1990, not long after the wall came down. It includes shots of
room interiors frozen in the perpetual 1970s of the DDR
,
dilapidated provincial cities with Trabants
,
more Trabants
,
luxury hotels reserved for the Communist Party elite
,
dilapidated seaside resorts
,
cheerful urchins with piles of coal
,
uninspiring consumer goods
and
symphonies of grey
; some glimpses of a parallel world, just before it disappeared.
And
here
is a Fortean Times piece on "The Ghosts of East Berlin".
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