German reunification in 30 words

#13: Urst

To mark 30 years of German reunification, we're taking you on a linguistic journey through 30 key German words and phrases that charted Germany's Cold War division, reunification and what happened next. Today: urst.

Andrew Bulkeley
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Urst cool. East Berlin punks at Leninplatz, which is now United Nations square. 

Urst cool. East Berlin punks at Leninplatz, which is now United Nations square. 

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German comedian Thomas Nicolai's previous show was urst good.

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If the internet is to be believed, it evolved from how the German adjective äußerst sounds in various dialects indigenous to eastern Germany. Even though both äußerst and urst can have the same meaning, the explanation rings urst apocryphal rather than true.  

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