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For over 25 years, the BBC gave voice to the silenced people of East Germany by inviting them to secretly write in to a radio programme called Letters without Signature. Broadcast on the BBC’s German Service, the programme…
Six days a week, 67-year-old Leokadija Lescika and her driver, Andris Klesa, cover more than a hundred shops. In the small villages and the many individual farmsteads, the rolling "corner shop" is often eagerly awaited. The nearest shop is often twenty kilometres away.
First broadcast: November 20, 2020 19:30 ARTE
Broadcast NDR television: March 20, 2021, 12:45 - 13:15 p.m.
Stanislav Vysotskyi is a juggler with heart and soul. Actually, the 37-year-old Ukrainian, who lives in Berlin, was supposed to perform together with 12 other artists in the current autumn show of the Krystallpalast Varieté in Leipzig. But on the day of the premiere, the news of the upcoming second lockdown reached them.
Mentally ill people played no role in the public sphere, in literature, art and film in the GDR. On socialist holidays or when prominent politicians visited, there was a curfew for psychiatric patients until 1989. The history of GDR psychiatry is characterised by enormous contradictions.
Beitrag lesenIs it permissible to commit people to psychiatric care because they pose a danger to themselves and others? Doesn't this forced admission violate the right to self-determination? And who decides on treatment against one's own will?
For decades and centuries Jews and gentiles lived side by side in the villages and cities of Central Germany. Their relations were characterized by medieval pogroms and marginalization, but also by long periods of peaceful and beneficial community…
The town of Hainichen in Saxony. In June 1945 the automobile manufacturer Hans Rasmussen is routed out of bed, arrested and brought to Silesia to a so-called special camp of the Soviet NKVD. He dies little later at…
