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Julian KramerJulian Kramer is a member of openDemocracy's editorial team. He holds an MA in International Journalism from City University and a BA in East European Languages, Literatures and Regional Studies from UCL. His articles, news pieces and translations have appeared on openDemocracy, in The Independent, the Berliner Zeitung, and on n-tv, a German rolling news channel. Julian's main journalistic interests are migration issues, the developing world, EU enlargement, endangered peoples and British-German relations. Recent articlesGoodbye Lenin: the uses of nostalgia Goodbye Lenin is a funny yet deeply affecting movie about one of the rare golden moments of German history: the year the Berlin Wall came down and two ideologically-opposed German states became one. West German Julian Kramer boards the East German spaceship. Living on the edge: a Roma clan in Ostrava, Czech RepublicRoma in the Czech Republic have been hit hard by post-communist industrial decline and social prejudice. In the eastern city of Ostrava, they display a survivalist spirit amidst grinding poverty. But how can Roma children succeed in an educational system based on institutional exclusion and contempt? |
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