Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden and left-wing groups had been relatively weak for years. With the emergence of the "Dresden Nazifrei" alliance (Dresden without Nazis), the Nazi march was blocked from marching for the first time in 2010 by thousands of demonstrators, again in 2011 and prevented entirely in 2012. While part of East Germany, Dresden was in the so-called "valley of the clueless" ("Tal der Ahnungslosen"), with its citizens out of the reach of the Western radio and television that citizens elsewhere in the East were able to listen to illegally. Dresden continued to be different after the German reunification; while most states in
Culture in Dresden of their activities and influence. Friedrich Schiller published his Ode to Joy in Dresden which he began in Gohlis near Leipzig in 1785. E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella "The Golden Pot. A Modern Fairytale" is set in Dresden and was published in 1814. "The Golden Pot" has parts of realistic descriptions of Dresden and fades into a surreal world of myths. Hoffmann witnessed the Battle of Dresden in 1813. Erich Kästner grow up in Dresden. He worked off his youth in Dresden ("The Flying Classroom") and his military training in an artillery battalion in the Dresden Albertstadt garrison (poem "Sergeant