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Stark naked...
... is a mixture between stark and naked.
To most people, skateboarding and East Germany don't go together.
But that's not at all true.
Something like skating comes naturally to kids.
There was certainly enough concrete around.
It had nothing to do with America.
At home, skateboarding was just a game.
Here it was somehow different. You realized that it meant something.
It was our own place, where we could do what we wanted.
Ooh, he must be from the West!
And now he's gone.
It would be nice if there were a better reason to remember those times.
In all my life, I never met anyone who hated rules as much as Denis did,
who had such a problem with authority.
When I think back on my childhood and my youth,
I don't think about the GDR.
I think about my little idiotic brother Denis,
about my friends from back then.
I'm telling you, everything lasted longer in the East.
The East Germans are here!