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...Catholic), has not fared so well. No more than a tenth of those baptized are still active in congregations. Christian children are often barred from higher education, except when they are members of elite groups, such as the boys' choir at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach once served as music director. State employees are expected to be atheists. Jobs in teaching, the courts, or the military are automatically out of bounds for believers. The historic Friedrichskirche, a squat brick church with pointed steeple that Frederick the Great built in Potsdam, seats 900 people, but no more...
East German artists have also had to adapt. The regimentation they have experienced has inspired images that speak powerfully to East Germans. In one painting by Leipzig Artist Wolfgang Mattheuer, a modern Icarus with gossamer wings struggles to fly above healthy, ordered garden plots, where most of his neighbors are too busy to notice. A statue by Mattheuer offers a more telling glimpse of the dilemma that East Germans face. A frightened man, his face creased with worry, is shown removing a mask shaped like a sheep's head. But, as the East German artist explains, "he is just...
...acts today are various. In a permissive age, sexual entrapment is not as effective as it used to be, but it can still play a role in KGB blackmail schemes. In the late 1970s, a randy West German with political ambitions who had made several sexual conquests at the Leipzig Trade Fair soon learned that he was the unwitting star of a movie directed by the KGB's sister operation in East Germany, the MfS. If he did not show equal enthusiasm about climbing into bed with the secret police, agents threatened, they would turn over to the West German...
...with the U.S.S.R. is central to the success or failure of U.S. foreign policy. The President should demonstrate that he understands that Western Europe's relations with the U.S.S.R. are different and more complex. Even though the hand of the Soviet Union lies heavy on Warsaw, Prague and Leipzig, the historic feeling that regards Europe as a whole lives on and will never be absent from the policy of West Germany as long as it is a divided country...
...names Switzerland. Munich, Stuttgart. Milan and Leipzig--home of the "staggering" Gewandhaus Orchestra--as possible stopping points during his travels. "These are all the places where I can work with good people. Despite my wealth of experience here, I have never actually taken a course in conducting--at this point I would like to learn something about the trade...