Go over there
"Go! Over there" , "is yet over!" Or "go but over there, it does not fit you here!" Are colloquial phrases from the time when Germany by the German-German border in the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic Germany was divided.
In West Germany , the request was made as a stereotypical response to critical inquiries about the situation in one's own country, in order to evade a discussion and to suggest that critics sympathize with the situation in the GDR. Over there was meant the eastern zone or the area of the GDR. In the GDR these sentences were sometimes used to muzzle critics. After the German reunification , these idioms lost their meaning.
Use of the idiom
The radio comedy show Gerd Show released a song that referred to the phrase.
In 2015, the ZDF titled a two-part documentary about the comparison of East and West German lifestyles with this request.
literature
- Jan Korte : Go over there. Finest observations from east and west. In: New Germany. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-939440-10-9 .
- Martin Schaad: "Then go over there": over the wall to the east. Ch. Links, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-516-4 .
- Frank Blohm (Ed.) .: Go over there! Encounters between people from East and West. Darmstadt / Neuwied 1986, ISBN 3-472-61631-8 .
- New edition: go over there! Revisited. An east-west reader and its history. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86732-326-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Spülbeck: Order and fear: Russian Jews from the point of view of an East German village after the fall of the Wall. An ethnological study. Campus Verlag, 2013. p. 74.
- ↑ Go over there ; Lyrics, published on Golyr.de, accessed on April 10, 2016.
- ↑ Go over there! (1/2) at zdf.de, accessed on April 7, 2016.
- ↑ Portrait of the author: Dr. Martin Schaad , abstract
- ↑ Frank Blohm (Ed.): Go over! Revisited. An East-West Reader and its History, Berlin 2019 (review by Herbert Ammon). Retrieved September 13, 2019 .