Reading & discussion: The East - a West German invention

What does it mean to have an Eastern identity imposed on you? An identity that is held responsible for the rapidly growing social divide? To which attributes such as populism, a lack of understanding of democracy, racism, conspiracy myths and poverty are ascribed?

In his eye-opening book, Leipzig-based German scholar Dirk Oschmann shows that more than thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the West defines itself as the norm and the East as a deviation. Our media, politics, economy and science are dominated by West German perspectives. Dirk Oschmann takes a pointed look at how this othering harms our society and initiates a long overdue debate.

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