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...

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

In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young so...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...

Described by Deadline Hollywood as the "tragic true story" of Chris Gueffroy, it follows one of the ...
Citizens of East Germany talk about their experiences and feelings in the face of upcoming elections...

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's t...

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

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

In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citize...

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

Portraits six lesbian protagonists from rural and metropolitan parts of the formerly socialist Repub...

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...
In reunified Berlin, a city guide from the Eastern part of the city offers tours for West Berliners ...
Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and has seen the city change through the years. His ...

Berlin, summer 1988: While Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd perform in the West, East Berliners can lo...
Documentation about the intra-German relations after the reunification.
In the midst of the transition towards reunification and a market economy, two teams meet for the la...