what is east
The question arises in a depressing way in these days of war.
What was considered to be overcome - the hard distinction between West and East - is back on the world stage as a key difference.
There is talk of a new Iron Curtain, a new hot war.
“East” has never been just a geographical category.
Behind it hides the history of mentality, ideology and lifeworld.
The young Görlitz writer Lukas Rietzschel is a guest in the seventh edition of the “Junge Minds”.
He goes on a search for East German consciousness and the question of what it means for a thirty-year-old to come from "the East".