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February 9, 2012
Honecker
The following articles have been tagged with "Honecker":
Action! Babelsberg film studio fętes 100 years
Lifestyle: 8 Feb 12
The world's oldest major film studio celebrates its 100th birthday this month with Hollywood stars and European players ready to toast Germany's mythic Studio Babelsberg outside Berlin. AFP's Deborah Cole reports.
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Secret files: Communist Honecker cheated on wife
Politics: 23 Jan 12
East German communist leader Erich Honecker had a difficult marriage with his wife Margot, new intelligence reports reveal, with both partners having affairs.
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Honecker's hunting lodge sold for €2.5 million
National: 21 Nov 11
An old hunting lodge belonging to former communist East German leader Erich Honecker has been sold at auction to a hotel group for €2.5 million, although there are still legal claims to resolve.
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East Germany's iconic traffic man turns 50
Society: 13 Oct 11
East Germany’s most enduring public figure is celebrating his 50th birthday this Thursday: The colourful little traffic light man has watched over millions of pedestrians and become an international design icon.
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Honecker's plane gets new lease of life as luxury hotel
Society: 7 Oct 11
A plane used by East German leaders – including, it is rumoured, Erich Honecker - has been transformed into a luxury hotel complete with Jacuzzi, sauna, bar and flat-screen television.
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Bubbling over from success
Lifestyle: 6 Jan 11
The Local’s series Made in Germany presents the best the country has to offer, including eastern success story Rotkäppchen sparkling wine.
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'Book reverend' saves a million scrapped East German books
National: 30 Oct 09
For nearly 20 years, Reverend Martin Weskott has been saving books printed in the former East Germany from the rubbish heap of history.
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East German sports doping victim speaks out after sex change
Sport: 27 Oct 09
Heidi Krieger was one of East Germany's star athletes, but years of forced doping caused her to opt for a sex change and become an outspoken advocate for the other victims.
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Last East German leader still a convinced socialist
National: 25 Sep 09
Communist East Germany's last leader Egon Krenz said this week he still believes socialism will triumph over capitalism in the end, almost 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Meet the man who brought down the Berlin Wall
National: 20 Sep 09
The Berlin Wall fell on the night of November 9, 1989 because of a hasty announcement by an East German official who had hoped the measure would "save" the communist regime, reports AFP's Audrey Kauffmann.
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Eastern town turns Stasi training camp into tourist playground
Society: 18 Sep 09
Once a Stasi security training ground for the likes of Honecker's bodyguards, the former East German city of Kallinchen is now dominated by tourists, including those drawn to a historic nudist camp and the re-purposed secret police facility.
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Berlin Wall art restoration in full swing ahead of anniversary
Society: 24 Jul 09
As the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, 91 artists are feverishly working to restore their original contributions to the famed East Side Gallery. The Local’s Andrew Mach reports.
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Artists repaint East Side Gallery along Berlin Wall
Society: 17 Jun 09
Work began this week to repaint Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev's passionate kiss with East German strongman Erich Honecker on the longest-surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall.
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Merkel defends her East German past
Politics: 19 May 09
In the ongoing debate over the East German legacy, Chancellor Angela Merkel roundly condemned the former communist regime on Tuesday, but defended her membership in communist youth organisation the FDJ.
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Artists give Berlin Wall murals anniversary makeover
National: 16 Apr 09
Restoration work began this week on murals painted on the longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall, 20 years after the Cold War barrier fell, organisers announced. But some of the original artists are unhappy with their plan.
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Paintings for the proletariat
Lifestyle: 30 Sep 08
With the world’s financial markets currently giving capitalism a bad name, David Wroe dons his Che Guevara t-shirt and heads to a new Berlin exhibition showing forgotten East German art.
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Exploring Berlin’s endangered bunkers
Lifestyle: 22 Aug 08
Berlin is plenty interesting above the ground, but that didn’t keep Brett Neely from doing some urban spelunking to check out the city’s numerous bunkers.
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Former East German parliament steel headed to Dubai
National: 5 Aug 08
The Palace of the Republic in Berlin was once the most prestigious building in East Germany, but now steel from the dismantled parliament building is slated to be used for the world's highest skyscraper in Dubai.
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Berlin ‘Stasi bar’ draws protests
Society: 3 Aug 08
A new Berlin bar is taking spy chic and East German nostalgia to a new – and some say tasteless – level by using the former state’s feared secret police, the Stasi, as its theme.
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Elite East German bunker opens to public
Society: 1 Aug 08
A nuclear-proof bunker built during the Cold War for East German leader Erich Honecker opens to the public Saturday, but only for three months before it is sealed forever.
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Honecker appears to accept medal from Ortega
National: 20 Jul 08
Margot Honecker made her first official public appearance since the fall of the Berlin wall at the weekend – in Nicaragua to receive a medal.
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Margot Honecker invited to Sandinista party in Nicaragua
Politics: 17 Jul 08
Margot Honecker, the 81-year-old widow of former East German dictator Erich Honecker, has been invited to attend celebrations by the Nicaraguan leftists the Sandinistas this weekend.
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Few applications to build Berlin City Palace
National: 25 Jan 08
Citry receives lower than expected interest from architecture firms for historic project.
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