What is Trabant?

Antonio Šango
Academic Boosting Class: Successful Social Science Studies
 1. Introduction
2. Magical number 26 - TRABANT 601
3. Trabant advertising
4. Socialism (Trabant) vs. Capitalism (Opel)

Presentation 5. Trabant as a brand

plan 6. The car that was eaten by pigs

7. Jokes
8. Conclusion
9. List of references
1. Introduction

 The Trabant was a car and a symbol of socialism and the

German Democratic Republic (DDR)
 The name "Trabant" means satellite (referring to the Soviet
Union and Sputnik)
 Production location: Zwickau
  The main models of the Trabant were:

1. Introduction P 50 600

601 1.1.
  The Trabant had a body made of Duroplast, a material that is a
combination of fiberglass and plastic
 It was the first worldwide car with a body made of recycled material
 For example, Duroplast can be found in a "plastic" toilet bowl
 Therefore, the Trabant weighs between 600 and 700 kilograms.
1. Introduction -  „The use of plastic for the Trabant’s body became one of its defining
Bodywork features both before and after 1989, especially for westerners engaged in
ridiculing it…” (Rubin, 2009: 28)
  26 horsepower (hp)
2. Magical  Fuel tank capacity = 26 liters

number 26 -  26 years of production

TRABANT
601
26 =
3. Trabant  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzqHVU-ngxU

advertising (0:00 to 0:29)

 4. Socialism (Trabant) vs. Capitalism (Opel Kadett)

1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s

„While West Germany’s car manufacturers – Mercedes,
Audi, Volkswagen – were credited with spearheading
the country’s economic success, the Trabi was dismissed
as ‘the command economy on wheels’.”
(Moran, 2004: 229)
  The nickname for the Trabant is "Trabi„
 Today, you can visit the Trabant Museum in Berlin
 Additionally, you can rent a Trabant in Berlin and take tours
around the city.
5. Trabant as a
brand today
  Today, the Trabant is popular among collectors and vintage car
enthusiasts
 Nowadays, the Trabant is a recognizable symbol of divided
Germany
 The Trabant represents the biggest cult among all Eastern
5. Trabant as a European cars. And you can buy many Trabi souvenirs.

brand today
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O5Gm_wYl-U

5. Trabant as a
brand today
  Anecdotes and jokes about the Trabant
 Bodywork: Fiberglass and plastic - DUROPLAST
 The usual bodywork of most cars: Metal bodywork
 Metaphor and symbolism of the destruction of communism
6. The car that was
eaten by pigs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZao5KScuwE

The film: "Black Cat,

White Cat" (1998)
  1) Why are Trabant drivers usually in a good mood? Because
they are always happy when their car starts!

7. Jokes  2) Why does the Trabant have a heated rear window? So that
you can keep your hands warm when you have to push it!
 3) What is the longest car on the market? – The Trabant, at 12
meters length. 2 meters of car, plus 10 meters of smoke.
 4) What is the name for Trabi in French? Carton de blamage!
  The Trabi is a symbol of communism and the stagnation of the
German Democratic Republic (DDR)
 It was the first worldwide car with a body made of recycled
material – „It was nicknamed ‘the cardboard car’ because it was
made from Duroplast, an unrecyclable phenolic resin
8. Conclusion strengthened by Soviet cotton wool waste…” (Moran, 2004: 229)
 „Ironically, it is the GDR’s pretensions to modernity which now
make its everyday culture seem so endearingly dated” (Moran,
2004: 229)
  Rubin, E. (2009, October). The Trabant: Consumption, Eigen-Sinn, and Movement.
In History Workshop Journal (Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 27-44). Oxford University Press.
 Moran, J. (2004, March). November in Berlin: the end of the everyday. In History
workshop journal (Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 216-234). Oxford University Press.

 https://www.autoscout24.de/auto/trabant/
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1klxbz5ZZA&t=97s
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6tS2YJ2iEE&t=50s

List of references  https://www.telegraf.rs/auto/auto-vesti/3260807-trabant-svinje-berlinski-zid

 https://povijest.hr/znanostitehnologija/trabant-simbol-jedne-epohe/
 https://automobili.hr/novosti/top-10/top-10-automobila-koji-su-u-stanju-uljepsati-d
an-2-dio
 http://www.trabant601s.de/Trabi%20Witze.htm
 http://www.trabi-museum.com/startseite
 https://www.trabi-world.com/
 https://autoportal.hr/vremeplov/trabant-601-1964-1990-srp-i-cekic-na-kotacima-ne
zaboravni-plasticni-cvajtakt-jeftiniji-od-fice/
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