For Silbermond singer Stefanie Kloß (“Light Luggage”) and her drummer Andreas Nowak, judgments about East Germany are often too general. “The East does not exist. To say that the East votes right is fatal,” Nowak told the private radio station Hit Radio FFH in Bad Vilbel. There are many people there who would think differently than is assumed by such generalizations.
The two musicians of the band from Bautzen in Saxony recommend the book “The East: A West German Invention” – a critical examination of recurring clichés about East Germany, written by Dirk Oschmann. “Read the book, there are very good aspects in it,” explained Kloss.
