German

Adverb

drüben (contraction of darüben)

1. over there
   • 1924, Kurt Tucholsky, Vor Verdun, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 20, no. 32, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 219:

     Hier war das Niemandsland: drüben auf der Höhe lagen die Deutschen, hüben die Franzosen – dies war unbesetzt.

     Here was the no man's land, over there on the height were the Germans, over here the French – this was unoccupied.

2. on the other side
3. Either the (former) GDR or pre-1990 BRD, both as political entities and as geographical regions. The term describes the entity/area from which the speaker does not hail.

Derived terms

• hüben und drüben
• hüben wie drüben