I think it alludes to the problem of transferring land and buildings back to their original owners and their heirs, which led to a lot of resentment among many East Germans after reunification. So after getting to know that it is an estate broker from Western Germany the local had no problem if he would be poisoned.
After reunification, many of the still usable/profitable assets of Estern Germany were bought by rich people in the West, which made the locals feel betrayed.
Also, strong German dialects are very hard to understand by people not from the area. So the Saxonian first warns the man that the water was poisenous (maybe also a dig on the less than stellar envoronmental protection of the GDR), but when he learns that it’s a rich western real estate broker, he lets him drink it.
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I think it alludes to the problem of transferring land and buildings back to their original owners and their heirs, which led to a lot of resentment among many East Germans after reunification. So after getting to know that it is an estate broker from Western Germany the local had no problem if he would be poisoned.
After reunification, many of the still usable/profitable assets of Estern Germany were bought by rich people in the West, which made the locals feel betrayed.
Also, strong German dialects are very hard to understand by people not from the area. So the Saxonian first warns the man that the water was poisenous (maybe also a dig on the less than stellar envoronmental protection of the GDR), but when he learns that it’s a rich western real estate broker, he lets him drink it.