Good Bye Lenin Vocab

einen Ausflug

excursion / trip

erfinden

to invent

Aktuelle Kamera

current news broadcast

DDR / GDR

east

Bundesrepublik Deutschland

west

fählt in Ohnmacht

faint

bemerken

to notice

Coca-Cola-Werbung

Coca coal advertisment

im Krankenhaus

in the hospital

besuchen

to visit

kennen lernen

to get familiar with

auf wachen

to wake up

küssen

to kiss

verliebt sich

to fall in love

Psycho-Klinik

psychiatric hospital

zurückkommen

to come back

die Wahrheit

the reality

der Wende

the fall of communism in germany

auggeben

give up

Studium

studies

FDJ-Lieder

songs from the free german youth- pioneers

sterben- stirbt

to die

die Familie streut ihre Asche über Berlin

the family scatters her ashes above Berlin

Rakete

rocket

entdeckt

discover

konsumgesellschaft

consumer society

fliegt weg

flies away

STASI

police in east

Grenze

border

teilen

separate

umräumen

to clean up

Vopos verhaften

police arrest

gesellschaft

company

sie fur eine gerechte sociale gesellschaft kämpft

she fights for a just social society

effizent

efficient

alex when he decorates the room + organizes party

ironisch

alex

protested before but now recreates the DDR which he really likes

west products keep showing up while he tries to recreate the east

verliebt

in love

alex with Laura

nostalgisch

alex

he remembers his childhood and family a lot

he doesnt like capitalism from the west a lot

he idealizes parts of the east that were positive + creates fake news to show how he would have wanted that type of reality

geduldig