Ask Dr. Wolle – Jeans in the GDR (English Subtitles)

Опубликовано: 13 Июнь 2026
на канале: DDR Museum
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In this episode of »Ask Dr. Wolle«, the academic director of the DDR Museum talks about the development and significance of jeans in the GDR – from rivet trousers as workwear, imported Levis jeans and the GDR's own jeans production.

DDR Museum, 2020, 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.