Drugs in the GDR – lecture with Michael Kleim

12 June 2025: In search of demarcation/The German Democratic Rausch – The GDR and its drug cultures In the GDR, there was an infinite amount of longing – longing for distance, for freedom, for transcendence. There was a search for demarcation. And there was a rush. »There were no drugs in the GDR? There was alcohol in rough quantities. There was coffee and tea culture. There was psychopharmaceuticals and their targeted use as intoxicants. There …