East Germany Jokes
Jokes in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) frequently included political characters (e.g. Erich Honecker) and mundane life dealing with economic scarcity.
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“My angel,—his name is Freedom,—
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And fend you with his wing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“He left behind, as his essential contribution to literature, a large repertoire of jokes which survive because of their sheer neatness, and because of a certain intriguing uncertainty—which extends to Wilde himself—as to whether they really mean anything.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)