Talk:Die Wende

Economic vs. Political Change
"change from socialism and planned economy to market economy and capitalism" - this suggests, die Wende was mainly an economic change, but actually it was a political change. --85.181.206.203 (talk) 12:56, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Actually, the term 'die Wende' was used for the change from the center-left SPD/FDP coalition to the center-right coalition CSU/FDP in Germany in 1982.

The process of the GDR becoming part of Germany again was referred to as 'Wiedervereinigung'. Check http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wende_(Bundesrepublik_Deutschland) for details. Nanoktom (talk) 17:29, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Refer to this article in 'Der Spiegel' Die Spaltung reicht bis in die obersten Funktionärsetagen. In Baden-Württemberg läßt der Landesvorsitzende Jürgen Morlok keinen Zweifel, daß er für Genscher, für die Wende steht. Sein Stellvertreter Hinrich Enderlein, strikt gegen Genscher, verlangt sofortige Neuwahlen. http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-14353500.html Nanoktom (talk) 19:18, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

West-German 1980s Wende
A disambiguation (along with an own article) should be made for geistig-moralische Wende ("mental and moral renewal"; the German Wikipedia already has it) which was Helmut Kohl's (oft-derided) overarching slogan for his libertarian conservative, right-libertarian politics ever since the 1982 elections (only second in public ridicule to his Blühende Landschaften ("prospering economic landscape") that he used to promise to the East Germans throughout his 1990 campaign for the reunification referendum to be held over there). A certain irony lies in the fact that the rivalling Germany next door pretty much took up his Wende slogan (unwittingly? nilly willy?) as soon as Krenz rose to power in 1989, and then East Germany's own Wende turned into a major victory for the other side and for the man that had been spreading a slogan of political Wende since just a couple of years earlier. --79.193.61.233 (talk) 12:36, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

"Die" Wende
You should not write "Die Wende", using the article "die", as it is not part of this expression in Germany. Use simply "Wende" instead.--Antemister (talk) 09:38, 10 February 2013 (UTC)