After the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of East Germany had to get used to a new way of consuming, working, and living. New-found freedoms were a breath of fresh air for many but in the chaos leading up to reunification with West Germany, the experience was also disconcerting.

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunificati...

Born in Germany in 2002, Noa Blanche Beschorner evokes the memory of those who, a generation before ...

A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his...

East Germany, 1986. When her sister flees to West Berlin, the life of a young East German woman is t...

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that reall...

2024 is likely to be a decisive year for Sahra Wagenknecht's political future. In the arena of power...

Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in ...

Energie Cottbus, a small soccer club from the periphery of the republic, got promoted to the first d...

Described by Deadline Hollywood as the "tragic true story" of Chris Gueffroy, it follows one of the ...

Portraits six lesbian protagonists from rural and metropolitan parts of the formerly socialist Repub...
Citizens of East Germany talk about their experiences and feelings in the face of upcoming elections...
Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and has seen the city change through the years. His ...

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...

In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster resea...

Documentary about the life in the then newly completed city Halle Neustadt in the former DDR in East...