Author Topic: Hey German guys, whats up with this? (Read 1101 times)

hawk220 · « **on:** March 03, 2003, 09:37:39 AM »

East Germany theme park planned

Sunday, March 2, 2003 Posted: 5:47 AM EST (1047 GMT)

BERLIN (Reuters) - Hoping to capitalize on a wave of nostalgia for Communist East Germany, a Berlin company is planning to build a theme park that revives life behind the Iron Curtain in the country that disappeared nearly 13 years ago.

Massine Productions GmbH hopes to recreate a 100,000-square-foot replica of East Germany, complete with surly border guards, rigorous customs inspections, authentic East German mark notes, and restaurants with regulation bland East German food.

"The aim isn't to make big joke out of East Germany," said Susanne Reich, a spokeswoman for the company which is expected to invest several million dollars on the project, slated for the southeastern Berlin district of Koepenick.

"It was an important part of Germany's history and the period should be recreated as accurately as possible."

Nostalgia for what was called the German Democratic Republic has lingered ever since reunification in 1990. Known as "Ostalgie," a play on the German words for east and nostalgia, the spirit has given rise to scores of "GDR parties," books, songs and popular films.

A German film "Good Bye, Lenin," in which a man recreates East Germany in a 850-square-foot apartment to protect his ailing mother from the shock of reunification after she comes out of a coma, has surged to the top of the German film charts and more than a million people have been to see it.

Duedel · « **Reply #1 on:** March 03, 2003, 09:45:45 AM »

Ripsnort · « **Reply #2 on:** March 03, 2003, 09:49:23 AM »

hawk220 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 03, 2003, 09:49:35 AM »

i guess I was wondering what people think of this? good? bad? too touchy?

midnight Target · « **Reply #4 on:** March 03, 2003, 09:50:48 AM »

DDR Disney!

Ve haff vays of makink you ride ze teacups.....

straffo · « **Reply #5 on:** March 03, 2003, 09:51:56 AM »

none of these...

educative I would say.

Duedel · « **Reply #6 on:** March 03, 2003, 09:54:12 AM »

Its nostalgia and education and a good way not to forget things (bad or good thats not the question here).

AKIron · « **Reply #7 on:** March 03, 2003, 09:57:32 AM »

It's human nature to remember the good while forgetting the bad.

What's next? Hitler's Germany: The Theme Park? Take a ride on the screaming Stuka, oh wait, we already have that, well, without the screaming part.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #8 on:** March 03, 2003, 10:11:35 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
DDR Disney!

Ve haff vays of makink you ride ze teacups.....

ROTFLOL!~

john9001 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 03, 2003, 10:21:37 AM »

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Originally posted by Duedel
Its nostalgia and education and a good way not to forget things (bad or good thats not the question here).

so whats next , a concentration camp theme park , live like a jew for a week, be beaten and starved, its nostalgia and education.

straffo · « **Reply #10 on:** March 03, 2003, 10:29:16 AM »

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Originally posted by john9001
so whats next , a concentration camp theme park , live like a jew for a week, be beaten and starved, its nostalgia and education.

It's a equally uncalled and harsh statement.

Ever been in Germany ?

Rockstar · « **Reply #11 on:** March 03, 2003, 10:50:15 AM »

There were a whole bunch of people on the otherside of that wall who for them communisim was a way of life. When the walls came down they spread out west and infected parts never seen before. If you ask me we made a bad mistake thinking because that wall came down communisim went away, it didn't.

Think about the last anti-war/U.S. protests in Europe you think it was the largest ever because all of the sudden the majority of Europe prior to the supposed end to communisim had a change of mind? Heck no those those li'l red bastiges from the east are all over the place now. Even in German government under some different name wanting to build a new playground for themselves and tell everyone 'see it isn't so bad look at all the fun we had.'

hawk220 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 03, 2003, 11:23:20 AM »

visiting Berlin was a very educational experience for me. the remants of the Wall and Checkpoint Charlie were very moving. wandering back and forth across Zimmerstraus st at Checkpoint Charlie where a few years before I would have been guned down really made me appreciate the freedoms I have at home.

Kirin · « **Reply #13 on:** March 03, 2003, 12:19:35 PM »

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It's human nature to remember the good while forgetting the bad.

Well, there are western saloons all over the theme parks. Ah the good old days where you could gun down a redskin and get a free drink at the bar...

Duedel · « **Reply #14 on:** March 03, 2003, 02:02:51 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
so whats next , a concentration camp theme park , live like a jew for a week, be beaten and starved, its nostalgia and education.

john9001 this was one of the most educated posts i ever saw.

Not only that AKIron posted it before (but i guess it was ment as a joke) but also this post shows the absolute lack of brain cells.

john9001 I would suggest to edit this moronic post and learn a the basics about german history.