Tag: GDR
Sports policy: No further entitlement to compensation for GDR doping victims
Sports politics No further entitlement to compensation for GDR doping victims The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig. photo © Jan Woitas/dpa In the past, GDR doping victims have received compensation…
Football non-fiction: Ronald Reng about 1974 and the most important football game in history. – Culture
In retrospect, certain football games actually seem to have been more than football games. Germany’s final victory in the 1954 World Cup, for example, is described by fans of exaggeration…
East Germany: International Solidarity!
“Friendship of Nations” and “Clap on Foreigners”: Two exhibitions shed light on old stereotypes about the GDR. It’s about time. source site
Conversations about the East – Culture
“Three East German women get drunk and found the ideal state” – sounds like a joke, but is a long conversation worth reading about character, existence and future in the…
When the murder of Karin Grabowski shook the GDR
03/03/2024, 06:00 14 mins It seemed like they would never find the real murderer. Until a man tried again 1. The First Lieutenant’s Daughter (May 1979) Something has happened. He…
Artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt has died – culture
“Typewritings” – that’s what Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt called the peculiar graphics that she typed with the typewriter. She applied the writing to the picture artfully and precisely. Sometimes she let the…
New in the cinema: “Haunted Under the Ferris Wheel”: Reanimated GDR horror classic
New in the cinema “The Haunting Under the Ferris Wheel”: Reanimated GDR horror classic David Bennent (l) as Rumpelstiltskin, Moritz Führmann as a giant and Anna Schudt as a witch…
Munich reading by Charlotte Gneuss – Munich
There was a lot of talk about this debut last year: Charlotte Gneuss’s novel “Gittersee” received the “aspekte” literary prize as well as the Jürgen Ponto Foundation literary prize, and…
How VW technology was supposed to save the GDR car industry
As of: January 30, 2024 3:49 p.m In 1984, VW board members discussed cooperation with representatives of the GDR economy. But the project became an investment hole. When the first…
Martina Gedeck and Johanna Wokalek come to a reading in Munich – Munich
Who Martina Gedeck or Johanna Wokalek Until now, anyone who wants to see something has had to watch TV or go to the cinema. The two actresses are rarely on…