Ocupation: Correspondent
Life: May 29, 1941 - February 11, 2015
Birthday: May 29
Death: February 11
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some subsidies? Or the whole East German system, which covered everyone in a security blanket from day care to health care, from housing to education? Some people are beginning to express, if ever so slightly, nostalgia for that Berlin Wall.
topic: Wall, Army, Day Care, Symphony Orchestras, East Germany