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Ostalgie is a German term referring to nostalgia for aspects of life in East Germany. It is derived from the German words ''Ost'' (east) and ''Nostalgie'' (nostalgia). The term ''Ostalgie'' (along with the phrase "soviet chic") is also occasionally used to refer to nostalgia for life under the socialist system in other former communist countries of Eastern Europe, most notably Poland and the Soviet Union. ==History== After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the German reunification that followed a year later, many of the symbols of the ''German Democratic Republic'' were swept away. Almost all ''GDR'' brands (''DDR'' in German) of products disappeared from the stores and were replaced by Western products. However, after some time most of the Eastern Germans began to miss more or less aspects of their former lives (like culture or the known brand marks). ''Ostalgie'' particularly refers to the nostalgia for aspects of regular daily life and culture in the former GDR, which disappeared after reunification.〔See, for instance Daphne Berdahl, "(Ostalgie for the Present: Memory, Longing and East German Things )" Ethnos, 1999〕 Indeed, ostalgie could be inspired by the longing of the ''Ossis'' (German for "Easterners", a term for former GDR citizens) for the social system and the sense of community of the GDR. When the renowned West-German magazine ''Der Spiegel'' asked former GDR-inhabitants whether the GDR "had more good sides than bad sides", 57% of them answered yes. To the statement of the interviewing journalist that "GDR inhabitants did not have the freedom to travel wherever they wanted", Germans replied that "present-day low-wage workers do not have that freedom either".〔Julia Bonstein, ("Homesick for a Dictatorship" ), in: Der Spiegel, 27/2009〕 The term was coined by the East German cabaret artist in 1992. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ostalgie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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