The performance of this song in the western media unleashed a debilitating debate within the SED and FDJ. As a result, the band was boycotted in the GDR media. In an attempt to break the silence, Pankow wrote an exculpatory letter to Erich Honecker (without response), and insisted that they were misquoted in the interview with Radio Bremen. But it was not the fine points of the dialog (regarding official GDR permissions, for example) that disturbed certain functionaries so mucht that the performance of that song was discussed at the meeting of the Central Committee in December 1988. The old men apparently knew who they were, even while the band foregrounded the polyvalence of its text." (245)
Why pankow thought letter would help?
Which “text”/song?
What was the performance that was so objectionable/threatening (in contrast to dialog)?
What the song says?
1. Relate to similar ideas from whole text: localizing the passage. Situating or Identifying the passage. Narrative moment.
2. bringing passage in relation to other themes in the text as a whole.
3. pulling out specific details to analyze:
4. relating to different passages.
5. relating to themes of making/doing/thinking more generally.
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