Aufgewachsen in der DDR - Wir vom Jahrgang 1971 - Kindheit und Jugend

Excited and full of anticipation, we looked to the future back then! Join us in reminiscing about the first 18 years of life – your childhood and youth! Born in 1971, we arrived as the self-understanding of the GDR broke through a finish line. Honecker came, Ulbricht disappeared. With Bummi and FRÖSI, we climbed the steps from nursery to kindergarten to school age, almost always with a neckerchief and the Pioneers' oath. Our little white peace dove flew through the dangerously hot times of the Cold War. We dreamed of jeans and faraway travels. Until the wall fell in 1989. Just having turned 18, the whole world suddenly opened up to us.