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- Title
How Udo Wanted to Save the World in ‘Erich's Lamp Shop’: Lindenberg's Concert in Honecker's East Berlin, the NATO Double-Track Decision and Communist Economic Woes.
- Authors
LÜTHI, LORENZ M.
- Abstract
The concert given by the West German rock star Udo Lindenberg in East Berlin on 25 October 1983 links cultural, political, diplomatic and economic history. The East German regime had banned performances by the anti-nuclear peace activist and musician since the 1970s, but eventually allowed a concert, hoping to prevent the deployment of American nuclear missiles in West Germany. In allowing this event, however, East Germany neither prevented the implementation of the NATO double-track decision of 1979 nor succeeded in controlling the political messages of the impertinent musician. Desperate for economic aid from the West, East Germany decided to cancel a promised Lindenberg tour in 1984, causing widespread disillusionment among his fans in the country.
- Subjects
GERMANY (East); GERMANY (West); LINDENBERG, Udo; EAST German politics &; government; NORTH Atlantic Treaty Organization; NUCLEAR arms control; ROCK musicians; PEACE movements; WARSAW Treaty Organization; POLITICAL participation; HISTORY; MILITARY policy; CULTURAL policy
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2015, Vol 24, Issue 1, p83
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777314000435