Blooming landscapes

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Helmut Kohl (1990)
Election poster of the CDU 1998

In 1990 the term blooming landscapes was the pictorial vision of the then German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as an economic future perspective for the “ new federal states ”.

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When the term was first used in 1990, the full sentence was:

"Through a joint effort we will soon be able to transform Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia again into blooming landscapes in which it is worth living and working."

The following year, Kohl said:

"And I am more convinced than ever that we will create blooming landscapes in the new federal states in the next three to four years ..."

Helmut Kohl used the term in his televised address for the introduction of the currency, economic and social union between the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany on July 1, 1990. In the election campaign for the 1998 federal election , the term was taken up again and on official election posters of the CDU used. For example, pictures of restored buildings from the new federal states were shown under the heading of Blooming Landscapes .

After nature has recaptured disused industrial landscapes and marshalling yards , the term is sometimes understood as a symbol for the deindustrialization or depopulation of parts of East Germany.

Others

Blooming Landscapes was also the title of a glossy by the Dresden-born journalist Peter Richter , which was published regularly in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , and which deals with the relationship between the old and new federal states, as well as a book by the same author on the same topic.

A second bon mot arose in East Germany , which is often used in the same context:

"Illuminated meadows" .

This refers to meadows on which industrial park infrastructure (streets, street lights, sewerage) was built before there were buyers for the commercial space - buyers never came in some industrial parks because the supply far exceeded the demand.

reception

The composer Günter Kochan (1930–2009) took up the theme in his Symphony No. 6.

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See also

literature

  • Christian Wolter: Blooming Landscapes . Kehrer, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-939583-90-5 . The author is a photographer; the book is an illustrated book.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Kohl: TV address by Federal Chancellor Kohl on the occasion of the entry into force of the monetary, economic and social union, July 1, 1990. In: Helmut-Kohl.de. July 1, 1990, accessed July 21, 2008 .
  2. ↑ a b Blooming Landscapes or Future East means primeval forest. In: MDR.DE. May 4, 2004, archived from the original on June 19, 2004 ; accessed on May 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Thomas Köster: Thistle and Shaggy vetch in a blooming landscape . In: faz.net of February 26, 2009, page R8
  4. ↑ Promise. In: Berliner Morgenpost from February 10, 2011.