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Swip:

--- Quote from: Arovos on 14.02.2016, 13:07:25 ---I don't count myself as a huge drinker, unless it involves either 2 drinks in particular: Ice tea and (from the Edeka supermarket) Bananensaft. (Like appel juice, but then with Banana's!)
Sadly they don't sell that stuff in the Lidl!

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Watch out for this stuff:
 http://www.lidl.de/de/solevita-fruchtnektar-apfel-banane-zitrone/p211261
It's pretty bananish, tasty and from Lidl ;)

Arovos:

--- Quote from: Swip on 14.02.2016, 23:05:23 ---
--- Quote from: Arovos on 14.02.2016, 13:07:25 ---I don't count myself as a huge drinker, unless it involves either 2 drinks in particular: Ice tea and (from the Edeka supermarket) Bananensaft. (Like appel juice, but then with Banana's!)
Sadly they don't sell that stuff in the Lidl!

--- End quote ---
Watch out for this stuff:
 http://www.lidl.de/de/solevita-fruchtnektar-apfel-banane-zitrone/p211261
It's pretty bananish, tasty and from Lidl ;)

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But sadly not entirely! Still better then nothing I supose :P

Tekumseh:

--- Quote from: Arovos on 14.02.2016, 14:12:07 ---So to end your question: maybe I will! Maybe not! However, I do plan to visit the con in a DDR costume to fit the theme. ( That is: if it is allowed. Still have to contact Eurofurence security for that.) as it might be offensive to some people, wich I can totally understand.
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What Do you actually mean with "DDR costume"? I'm not a fashion specialist, so I don't know if fashion was that wildly different from the other side of the wall, so I'm a bit confused. Are you referring to a uniform? If so, please make sure to read up about legal issues - afaik the insignia of the border tropps od the GDR are regarded as anticonstitutional symbols so they would violate §86a StGB (as would insignia of the 3rd Reich).

Back to you original question: if there is a charity concert, I would advise you to join. Yes it costs a few bucks - but the experience of such a small konzert is truly amazing :)

Arovos:

--- Quote from: Tekumseh on 16.02.2016, 12:07:41 ---
--- Quote from: Arovos on 14.02.2016, 14:12:07 ---So to end your question: maybe I will! Maybe not! However, I do plan to visit the con in a DDR costume to fit the theme. ( That is: if it is allowed. Still have to contact Eurofurence security for that.) as it might be offensive to some people, wich I can totally understand.
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What Do you actually mean with "DDR costume"? I'm not a fashion specialist, so I don't know if fashion was that wildly different from the other side of the wall, so I'm a bit confused. Are you referring to a uniform? If so, please make sure to read up about legal issues - afaik the insignia of the border tropps od the GDR are regarded as anticonstitutional symbols so they would violate §86a StGB (as would insignia of the 3rd Reich).

Back to you original question: if there is a charity concert, I would advise you to join. Yes it costs a few bucks - but the experience of such a small konzert is truly amazing :)

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To answer your first comment: Wow! didn't knew that! Indeed it is a Volkspolizei uniform. As I do not wish to intend to break german law, I better not wear it! Although I didn't find the reference to forbidden DDR symbols in the official statement of explanation the German state. I could have missed a paragraph maybe! But no uniform is, no risk. Unless common T-shirts with texts like: "I love Furries" Are forbidden ofcourse :P Still the law makes sense though. Probably extreme left Groups wear it as protest, and  I do not affiliate with those kind of groups :)

To answer your second comment: Hmmmm, sounds interesting! What kind of musicians usually peform at such a concert? is it like really a small concert like thing, wich different bands peforming after one and another?
If so, sounds like fun :)
 
P.S. as a matter of fact East German fashion had a bit of difference :) mainly as the build up of the gap between east and west, east was more of a controlled fashion: everything had to be 'decent'. Such you can see East developed in most eyes of today 'very old fashioned' clothing in comparison to 60-70's of the west. However, during the Glasnost and the Peristroika (Under Gobatsjov 'more' freedom of speech and commerce) we see a more ghotic approach in the youth in east germany. this video illustrates it best: http://www.sundance.tv/blog/2015/07/deutschland-83-1980s-fashion-east-vs-west-germany

So to say: the east german fashion in the late 80's were more 'daring' then that of the west. Note though: this was mostly the youth.

Tekumseh:
Yeah, it's actually a bit hard to come by a (more or less) complete list of forbidden symbols. Compilations of such mostly refer to symbols of the 3rd Reich - but they are definitely not complete. But - I can't prove or disprove my memory here. The reason why the border troops were classified anticonstitutional was - simplified - that as they were responsible for most of the casualties at the German-German border, they were regarded as the evil incarnate of this "Unrechtsstaat". I that counts for other armed or military forces as well, I do not know.

As for the concert: last time I was there (two years ago), there were Fox Amoore, Amadhia and Alexander James Adams along with a performance of guest of honor Sardyuon :) While thy bigger concerts at EF, which fill the main stage, certainly are an act to enjoy, those really small... nearly private... charity concerts have a completely different atmosphere :)

You can read reports in the archives of the Daily Eurofurence about the concert and the charity concert :)

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