The "Weg der Verheissung" production was part of a post-unification program of restitution, which included the rebuilding of the city's synagogue.
The population of Berlin, by contrast, which sank to a low in 2000, has yet to equal its post-unification peak of 3.47 million in 1993 and stands at around 3.45 million.
Even in Germany, where unemployment is at post-unification lows, hundreds of thousands of workers took to the streets.
According to Lothar Ruhl, until recently an official of the West German Defense Ministry, only 15,000 to 20,000 East German professional soldiers would be used as the core of a new post-unification Eastern territorial army of no more than 50,000 troops.
According to Gavyn Davies, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, the unanticipated depth of the British recession, the strength of Germany's post-unification boom, and the lack of co-operation from the Bundesbank and the French government in helping Britain to secure an ERM-wide realignment all highlighted serious, previously unrecognised, flaws in the ERM.
Germany's refusal to integrate immigrants, it is argued, helps to produce the racial acrimony that has caused dozens of deaths in post-unification Germany, including, Turks charge, the Easter deaths of three of their number in an arson attack in the Rhineland.Politicians worried about an ethnic clash want a basic change to the citizenship law.
Germany's Die Linke rode a wave of post-unification discomfort for years and now shed voters to the far right in the old East.
One minute he is discussing the technology of "cells" (the connected hexagons of radio coverage that enable mobiles to work on the move) and smashing up his own mobile to see where the bits come from; the next he is giving a potted history of post-unification Germany, speeding over Russia and China, or whistling through the Japanese i-mode system (the concept: "convenience data").
Specifically, it explores the (re connections and (re brandings that Berlin's municipal railway infrastructure, the Stadtschnellbahn (S-Bahn) and Untergrundbahn (U-Bahn), experienced in the years surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall, and considers their contribution to the formation of post-unification municipal identities.
Germany embarked upon a programme of fundamental labour market reform in 2003, sparked by the excesses of post-unification wage increases.
Whereas in the post-unification period, the influence of lower secondary school graduates on newly signed apprenticeship contracts has been stronger than for intermediate graduates, this correlation is turned around in the post-unification period.
