Word: schwerin
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Despite the optimism, several of those attending the forum discussed the likely problems the new Germany will face. Michael Bohm, a visitor from Schwerin (formerly East Germany), said that the transition will be especially tough for East Germans, who have become used to the state's free guarantee of health care, education and employment...
That is a partial tally of deliberate affronts to the audience in 15 acclaimed stage shows from East and West Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Bremen, Bochum and Schwerin. All were imported for, or staged locally to enrich, last month's Berlin Theatertreffen, the city's 27th annual festival of productions from around the German-speaking world. Although the doctrinaire Marxism of Bertolt Brecht, Germany's greatest 20th century playwright, has fallen out of fashion, his zeal to shake up bourgeois spectators still seems to inspire his artistic successors...