Trabant: Go with the legend
Lowe, Austen Stone, Mark
Lowe, Austen
Stone, Mark
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2018-11-18
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"The car is that mediation between state and society. If you look at when they finally opened the borders for people to go West, the Trabis also went with them."
Modern Languages undergraduate Austen Lowe was invited to Drystone Radio's Backseat Driver show to discuss his research on the Trabant with Mark Stone. This radio broadcast outlines the misunderstandings surrounding GDR mobility. The conversation focusses on how the wooden and plastic car personifies the state in which it was made. The broadcast aims to draw parallels between production techniques in the GDR and the FRG, relating these methods to cars produced more recently in Zwickau. What did quality actually mean in the GDR and is the Trabant really a motoring legend?
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Lowe, A. (Writer), & Stone, M (Director). (2018, November). Trabant: Go with the legend [Radio series broadcast]. In M. Stone (Producer), Backseat driver. Cowling, United Kingdom: Drystone Radio.
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Drystone Radio
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