The morning after the Berlin Wall came crashing down in November 1989, nine-year-old Thomas Töpfer was one of the few East German kids who turned up for school.. He found his teacher in tears and ...

The German TV show Deutschland '83, about spies in East Germany during the Cold War, premieres on American television soon. NPR's Rachel Martin talks with its creators, Anna and Joerg Winger.

Contrary to popular belief, protests during the 1989 East German Revolution were not driven by West German television broadcasts. Accessibility statement Skip to main content Democracy Dies in ...

A German television reporter interviews a migrant worker at the Olympic aquatic center in 2006, by xiaming. 2008年10月17 ...

In October 1989 – exactly 35 years ago – he took to the streets, alongside 70,000 other East Germans, ... filmed the demonstrations here in 1989 and leaked the footage to West German television.

There, a makeshift studio that included East German exiles as well as West Germans, broadcast the radio reports back to the east. The monthly show, known as Radio Glasnost, was broadcast on the ...

Strikingly, women born after 1975 in both the east and west are more likely to disapprove of mothers in full-time work than older ones, putting paid to the idea that younger women are keener on work.

If the walls of the Hoppegarten racetrack could talk, they would likely proffer tales of thoroughbred legends and sporting glory – not to mention classes in German and European history. Today ...

Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) is a 24-year-old border guard in the German Democratic Republic — East Germany. His mother, Ingrid ( Carina N. Weise ), is on dialysis and needs a kidney transplant.

Oboists rarely strike out on their own. James Austin Smith’s recent program at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust—pieces culled entirely from the vaults of the German Democratic Republic—was a ...