Jana Scholze
Small objects of daily life unlock stories about the revolutions of 1989. Furniture curator Jana Scholze remembers life in Communist East Germany and a much-desired garden chair.
Passports, garden chairs, cars or contraceptives. Four essayists from former Warsaw Pact nations reflect on the changing use and meaning of an apparently banal object - an object that unlocks a wider story about how daily life in their country was transformed by the dramatic events of 1989.
In today's programme, the furniture curator Jana Scholze remembers her life in communist East Germany and the true meaning of garden furniture.
Producer: Julia Johnson.
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- Tue 10 Nov 2009 23:00成人快手 Radio 3
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