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[peter27]

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[timor]

Still working on that Trabant ? On your pictures it looks better, than ever was intended by designers.
Good shot, I like it.

 

[peter27]

Still working on that Trabant ? On your pictures it looks better, than ever was intended by designers.
Good shot, I like it.

Thanks timor.

Yes, still working on this one. I have the idea that I'd like to use this image in poster size with some of the others, plus one I haven't posted here, beneath it in either 13x18 or 10x15 size and exhibit them as one piece of work. The title I'm working with is: Energiewende: Die Neue Deutsche Welle

 

[timor]

I see.
However I don't grasp the title and the connection to Trabant.

 

[peter27]

The car is associated with Die Wende: the time at the end of the eighties/start of the nineties when the Berlin Wall was opened and the reunification of Germany took place. After Fukushima, the German government took the decision to start a programme of change in energy production (Die Energiewende) that will lead to all of the country's nuclear power stations being decommissioned. This won't be easy and some of the workable alternatives, including arable land being used for fuel crops rather than food crops, are proving to be quite unpopular. There is a school of thought that this was all a bit of a smash and grab action on the government's part: trying to set up a wave of nuclear shutdown with other countries taking Germany's lead, that German industry could then profit from. If so, this has backfired somewhat and shown itself to have about as much milage in it as the Trabbi in my photos, which is ready for the scrap yard. But even if the cynics are wrong about the true motives behind the government's decisions, it won't be easy getting this project on the road and the ride isn't going to be a smooth one. Die neue deutsche Welle was a movement in pop music in the eighties which, like the Trabant, enjoys cult status here. Who knows? if this new movement in energy production is successful in Germany, then perhaps there will be a new wave that will wash the world clean of the danger of nuclear power, which another type of wave made so apparent in Japan.

 

[timor]

No wonder I couldn't make connection. This is all very much local stuff and politics of which we don't hear here. Good luck with the poster.