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Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis

Born St. Emmeram's Abbey, 24 Mar 1982

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A life in time

  1. 24 Mar 1982

    Born in St. Emmeram's Abbey

Family

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During her lifetime

She has lived through 5 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around St. Emmeram's Abbey.

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The 1980s · Princess is born in St. Emmeram's Abbey

What people wore

The practical Dederon smock apron

Many women in the GDR wore colorful sleeveless smock aprons made from Dederon, a robust and quick-drying synthetic polyamide fiber, for housework and in various workplaces.

Getting around

Drastic reduction in long-distance travel time

For comparison, the travel time from Abensberg to Berlin by train in 1974 was 9 hours and 27 minutes, significantly faster than the 19th-century horse-drawn carriage time of nearly 72 hours.

At the table

Expensive luxury food in East Germany

In East Germany in 1980, specialty shops called Delikat stores sold luxury items like raspberries and asparagus at high prices, such as 17 marks for 300 grams of raspberries. These shops were mostly inaccessible to ordinary people because their prices were prohibitively expensive.

The Berlin Wall falls. Berliners tore down the wall on 9 November; within two years communism had ended in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.Around the world · 1989

The Berlin Wall falls. Berliners tore down the wall on 9 November; within two years communism had ended in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Unknown photographer, Reproduction by Lear 21 at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0

Music

East Berlin's political song festival

The Festival of Political Songs in East Berlin served as a major annual highlight from 1970 to 1990, where young people experienced international music and political connection. Tickets were scarce, and the festival provided a rare escape from everyday life with performances by artists from around the world.

Daily life

Affordable school lunches in the GDR

Eighty-five percent of children received a warm lunch at school, with parents typically paying 50 pfennigs per meal. Popular choices included Spirelli pasta with tomato sauce and Jagdwurst.

What it cost

Food subsidies in East Germany

The East German state heavily subsidized daily necessities, spending 33 billion Mark on food subsidies in 1989 alone to keep prices low.