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The silence lasts just one second in which at midnight between 1991 and 1992 the East German frequencies give up the ghost. Hans is sitting in front of the radio at Katharina’s and takes in the very short silence with which his past life is lopped off. It was a little like that moment in La bohème …

If I leave my family, Hans says to Katharina, you have to promise you’ll always be with me.

If you want to be with me, then be with me. But it’s not a trade.

I don’t know what’ll happen.

You have to want it.

I can’t go into a void.

What void?

[...] Katharina and her friends drink it in the KDW department store and are mean enough to walk out without paying. Half their money and their parents’ money has been vaporized in the course of the historical reform, so are they expected on top of that to shell out as much for a piece of cake as t…