Theatre· Leipzig
Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer - DDR Comedy Tour 2026/27
"Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer" ("Forwards ever, backwards never") is a phrase famously declared by East German leader Erich Honecker in April 1989 at an SED Central Committee meeting, insisting that the German Democratic Republic would not follow the Soviet Union's reform policies under glasnost. The statement became a symbol of the regime's rigidity, ironically just months before the fall of