May 31, 2021
From being raised by a World War 2 veteran who spent time in a Soviet prison camp to having of view of the Berlin Wall from her apartment to meeting westerners like Celeste and her family who she finally visited in California after the wall fell, Adelheid has quite a story to tell!
May 20, 2021
This episode of Radio GDR, the East Germany podcast, lives up to
Paul Harvey's famous expression, "and now you know the rest of the
story."
In episode 24, Shane Whaley interviewed Eric Friedman who, as a
10-year old boy in 1988, accompanied his mother Celeste Barber, a
teacher in the English Department at Santa Barbara...
May 9, 2021
A conversation with author Michael Wagg. In The Turning Season, he goes in search of hidden histories and footballing ghosts from before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He revisits the 14 clubs that made up the 1989 DDR-Oberliga, East Germany's top flight. From Aue in the Erzgebirge mountains to Rostock on the Baltic Sea,...
May 2, 2021
John Paul Kleiner chats with the author of Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany. Andrew Demshuk.
Bowling for Communism illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by exploring acts of "urban ingenuity" amid...