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In German culture, Ostalgie (German:[ˌʔɔstalˈɡiː]ⓘ) is nostalgia for aspects of life in Communist East Germany. It is a portmanteau of the German words Ost (east) and Nostalgie (nostalgia). Its anglicised equivalent, ostalgia (rhyming with "nostalgia"), is also sometimes used. Another term for the phenomenon is GDR nostalgia (German: DDR-Nostalgie).
The term was coined by the East German standup comic Uwe Steimle [de] in 1992.[1]
Social scientist Thomas Ahbe argues that the term ‘ostalgia’ is often misunderstood as a lack of willingness to integrate, an uproar to reverse German reunification and reinstate the GDR.[2] However, Ostalgia is rather an integration strategy used by East Germans who wanted to retain their own original experiences, memories and values incompatible with those of the West German majority.[3]
As with other cases of Communist nostalgia, there are various motivations, whether ideology, nationalism, wistfulness for a lost sense of social status or stability, or even aesthetics or irony.
^"Ostalgiker Uwe Steimle bezeichnet sich als Kleinbürger". Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 12 October 2012. Archived from the original on 10 October 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
^Ahbe, Thomas (2005). Ostalgie: zum Umgang mit der DDR-Vergangenheit in den 1990er Jahren(PDF) (in German). Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung Thüringen. p. 66. ISBN 978-3-931426-96-5.
^Varvantakis, Christos (January 2009). "A monument to dismantlement" (PDF). Memory Studies. 2 (1): 27–38. doi:10.1177/1750698008097393. ISSN 1750-6980. S2CID 144579488.
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