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The latest season of Germany's largest festival celebrating the adventure writer Karl May ended with a record audience. Over 430,000 visitors watched the adventures of the Native American character Winnetou, despite criticism of the story's problematic legacy from some sections.

What Remains? tells the story of the German Democratic Republic from the perspective of ordinary GDR citizens. It asks how people constructed East German identities that persisted after the official dismantling of the socialist state and shows that these identities diverged starkly from the “official GDR” version authoritarian rulers sought to impose on their citizens. […]