German elections

[Dill]

(09-27-2017, 06:22 AM)hollodero Wrote: Oh... have you also been to Hasselhoff's wall concert where he sang "looking for freedom" there? This brought the wall down. Hasselhoff at least believes that.

What I remember is being totally baffled by his popularity in Germany.  Like Jerry Lewis and the French.  I saw part of a concert on tv; looked like a tv star playing a rock star in a movie not about rock.  Clumsy.  But pictures of him were smattered all over the newstands (LOL Bild articles with big pictures) and kiosks had posters announcing this or that tour.  In the US he was just a handsome but slow footed Baywatch hunk. Not a musician at all.

The main thing I remember regarding the fall of the wall is that all the porno shops in West Berlin were sold out by noon, the day that the BRD was handing out 100 DM Scheins at Checkpoint Charlie.  A week later there was an article in, I think, Der Speigel about West Berlin prostitutes complaining because all these super gorgeous East German prostitutes were undercutting their business--charging 20Dm where the locals charged 50-100.   When you come from a society where everything is so cheap, 20 DM must have seemed like WOW!  (I remember having a great dinner at a nice East Berlin restaurant in 1986-hefty portions of schnitzel, potatoes and gravy, multiple beers, separate salad--for 7 DDR marks. Even if you remember they forced you to exchange their devalued currency one for one for DM, that was still only about $2.50.)