Dec 27, 2019
On Episode 15 of the Radio GDR Podcast, former Radio Berlin
International employee Steve Winkler talks to us about life growing
up with parents who worked for the GDR Diplomatic Service.
It later transpired that Steve's Dad worked for Markus Wolf's HVA,
the Stasi's Foreign Intelligence Service.
East Germany's HVA is...
Nov 26, 2019
On Episode 14 of the Radio GDR Podcast, the world's only English
language podcast about East Germany, host Shane Whaley gives you
the low down on a new Berlin attraction TimeRide Berlin that allows
you to travel into East Germany via Checkpoint Charlie.
I kid you not, the TimeRide Berlin, a new virtual...
Nov 20, 2019
On Episode 13 of the Radio GDR Podcast, the world's only English
language podcast about East Germany, host Shane Whaley interviews
Steve Winkler who worked at East Germany's Radio Berlin
International as a Line Producer/Studio Manager.
- How Steve was initially rejected by radio station DT64 before he was hired at...
Oct 11, 2019
On Episode 12 of the Radio GDR Podcast, GDR Objectified's John Paul Kleiner interviews Professor Luise von Flutow who translated the East German novel 'They Divided The Sky' by Christa Wolf into English.
Sep 23, 2019
After six years of work, we interview the producers behind Open Memory Box which encompasses 415 hours of home movies that 150 families made in East Germany between 1947 and 1990, the collection covers everything from birthday parties to burial, from May Day demonstrations to attempts to flee the country.