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Stasi East Berlin 1982

October 22, 2024 – 9:54 am

In the autumn of 1982 the BSir’s DJ Henri Flesh and I jetted from Hamburg to Berlin’s Tempelhof aerport to see our friends from Helen Wheels play at a concert halle. We checked into a four-star hotel and toured the city. Of course the wall at Brandenburg Gate anda viewing from a raised platform of […]

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Berlin Wall a la Pattaya

October 22, 2024 – 7:51 am

The Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989. Several years ago a German expat in Pattaya tried to recreate one of many escape attempts over the infamous barrier between East and West by trying to evade police by leaping over a concrete wall topped by barbed wire in a state of nakedness. Stasi Police would […]

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NICHT FUN by Peter Nolan Smith

October 22, 2024 – 2:17 am

In the autumn of 1982 Henri Flesh and I flew to Berlin. We booked rooms at the Hotel Kempenski for a three-day holiday from BSIR, Hamburg’s most popular club, after working the entire summer. That night the French DJ and I went out to the Dschungel in Charlottesburg, where we ran into a pair of […]

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East Berlin Immer Eis Cream

March 22, 2024 – 1:48 am

Back in 1989 one West German Mark bought a huge ice cream in East Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. Two marks bought two ice creams. For good girls.

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