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Communist theme park to be set up in Berlin
Ananova ^
| February 28, 2003
| Ananova
Posted on 02/28/2003 10:35:44 AM PST by MadIvan
A theme park that lets visitors travel back to in time to communist East Germany is to be set up in Berlin.
The GDR Fun Park will be built in the east of the formerly divided city.
Visitors will pay about £8 to spend the day watching old news programmes and films before a GDR-style lunch.
German newspapers say it is not yet clear whether lunch orders will be met with the traditional GDR reply of: "Ain't got that." Theme park visitors will also be able to ride the infamous Trabant cars.
GDR citizens usually had to wait years before being allotted one of these, and the cars were generally mocked as being made almost entirely from plastic.
Art historian Susanna Reih is part of the team working on the project. She says the park will not try and make fun of times when the iron curtain was still up.
She told the Tagesspiegel newspaper: "What we want to do is create a space where you can experience everyday GDR culture."
Both Reih and the other organisers of the park are Wessis - as the residents of former West Germany are nicknamed today. The 12,000 square metre park is set to open next summer.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: borderguards; communism; ddr; eastberlin; eastgermany; trabis; wall
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To: MadIvan
If this theme park bears some reality what life really was like under communist rule, perhaps we can start a fund to have some diehard socialsts to visit and experience life in a socialist paradise.
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posted on
02/28/2003 10:50:00 AM PST
by
monocle
To: MadIvan
Will they have an Epcot-like "Tomorrow the World"?
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posted on
02/28/2003 10:50:22 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
To: MadIvan
East Germany: Better Government through Intimidation
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posted on
02/28/2003 10:50:39 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: MadIvan
Ivan is this for real??
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posted on
02/28/2003 10:51:55 AM PST
by
Dog
(Life , Liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it...)
To: MadIvan
Is this what "Celebrate Diversity" is all about?
"Celebrate and Embrace Communism!!!"
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posted on
02/28/2003 10:52:06 AM PST
by
Luna
(Evil will not triumph...God is at the helm)
To: MadIvan
12,000 square meters of concrete electrified barbed wire and guard dogs. A relaxing place to wind up a day of bunkers and concentration camps. What fun!
To: MadIvan
12,000 square meters of concrete electrified barbed wire and guard dogs. A relaxing place to wind up a day of bunkers and concentration camps. Blindfold the kids and hear them squeal as they fall into the padded trench when gunfire and jets of compressed air strike them! Catch a 20 minute dose of simulated dysentry! What fun!
To: MadIvan
I hope they don't forget to sign up every other visitor to spy on the rest. That should lend realism to the place. Having traveled to Germany a few months ago I am sure they already have the sand paper, oops I meant toilet paper, covered.
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posted on
02/28/2003 10:56:29 AM PST
by
katana
To: MadIvan
I want the bullet concession. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave..."
To: MadIvan
"What we want to do is create a space where you can experience everyday GDR culture."Hell, they should have just saved the construction costs and bought everyone a ticket to Maine.
Lo these many years of Democrat control have created a worker's paradise.
To: MadIvan
I have heard that the Communist theme park will be called "The Magical Mysery Tour".
To: MadIvan
You sure this isn't from The Onion?
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posted on
02/28/2003 11:01:45 AM PST
by
6ppc
To: princess leah; MadIvan
Maybe they'll have the Berlin Wall obstacle course.
Remember those concrete cylinders laid horizontally on top of the wall? They fell off if you put your weight on them. Naturally, you'd get rolled flat.
Wouldn't the kiddies just LOVE that?
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posted on
02/28/2003 11:02:40 AM PST
by
Poohbah
(Beware the fury of a patient man -- John Dryden)
To: MadIvan
"Theme park visitors will also be able to ride the infamous Trabant cars." What, has the last Lada broken down?
Michael
To: Dog
Yes, it's for real. I've seen documentaries, showing parties that "Ossis" have, in which they express nostalgia for the days of the DDR, driving Trabants, and hiring impersonators of Erich Honecker and Vladimir Lenin.
This is the next logical step.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/28/2003 11:19:41 AM PST
by
MadIvan
To: Billthedrill
From the movie "Top Secret",
The East German National Anthem:
Hail, hail East Germany
Land of vine and grape.
Land where you'll regret
Any try to escape
No matter if you tunnel under
Or take a running jump at the wall,
Forget it, the guards will kill you
If the electric fence doesn't first.
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posted on
02/28/2003 11:21:01 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: MadIvan
"What we want to do is create a space where you can experience everyday GDR culture." That's easy...build a prison.
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posted on
02/28/2003 11:24:05 AM PST
by
NewLand
To: MadIvan
...and we thought the food lines were long at Disney World!
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posted on
02/28/2003 11:31:07 AM PST
by
AngryJawa
(Aw, fer cryin' out loud!)
To: MadIvan
To make it more releastic, they should require people to cross barbed wire and a no-man's land protected by machine gun wielding guards in order to leave the museum. Let's help people realize just how "warm and fuzzy" those poor misguied social experimenters really were.
To: Physicist
I understand the group camp is compelling.
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posted on
02/28/2003 11:48:27 AM PST
by
oyez
(If I'm double posting. I'm sorry)
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