Ask Dr. Wolle – Western Television in the GDR (English Subtitles)
In this episode of »Ask Dr. Wolle«, the academic director of the DDR Museum talks about the influence of Western television and radio stations in the GDR. He shows how GDR citizens informed themselves politically and names the areas that had no access to Western television at all. One of the objects on display is the well-known GDR radio »Stern Elite«.
DDR Museum, 2016, https://www.ddr-museum.de/en
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Dr. Stefan Wolle:
Born in 1950, studied History at Humboldt University in Berlin, expulsion in 1972 for political reasons, worked in a production plant, 1976-89 employee of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, 1984 promotion, 1990 employee of the Committee for the Dissolution of the Ministry of State Security, 1991-1996 Assistant at Humboldt University, 1996-1998 fellow of the German Research Foundation, 1998-2000 advisor at the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany, following this an independent author, temporary employee in the Research Association on the SED-State at the Free University in Berlin, the academic leader of the DDR Museum since 2005.
Credits:
Editorial team: Dr. Stefan Wolle, Melanie Alperstaedt, Robert Rückel
Camera: Björn Förster
Director, editor, music: Michael Geithner (http://www.geis-geithner.de)
Subtitles: Katie McCarthy