Katja Hoyer: belief

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…Sure, yes. —venturing further. That’s always part of the story. People say it was so gray, and it was always concrete and nothing going on. I think if you’d gone to, say, a village or a town somewhere where people lived a different life, that would have given you a slightly different impression as such. Of course, there were shortages, and people do talk about having to make do. Say, if your car broke down and you needed a replacement part for something, you needed connections to try and get that. You needed to find a way of getting hold of things. Nonetheless, you wouldn’t have gone, say, to the Baltic Sea to see people on holiday, or to a factory and see people working in there with their colleagues, or to observe a football match or whatever. These day-to-day things that made people’s lives—filled them basically with life, with friendship, with colleagues, and so on. I think there is a bit more nuance than that to it. What was the best literary creation from East Germany?…

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