Season 3 Special Announcement (45)
Radio GDR co-hosts, Steve and Shane share news of the upcoming Season 3 and how you can help us!
16 Feb 20226min
A Strange Exchange: Brown University Students on the Loose in East Germany
In this episode of Radio GDR our host John Paul Kleiner (gdrobjectified.wordpress.com) interviews Debby Pattiz about the unusual semester she spent in the GDR back in 1988 as a Brown University (Provi...
6 Jan 202250min
The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present with Ralph Hope
What do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies? By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. For forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in...
29 Jul 202159min
Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall - with Tim Mohr
Thanks to Tim Mohr for taking time to speak with John Paul Kleiner (GDR Objectified blog) and Prof. Ed Larkey (University of Maryland - Baltimore County) about his book Burning Down the Haus: Punk Roc...
27 Jun 20211h
Borderland Museum Eichsfeld - Touring the Inner German Border with Patrick Hoffmann
In this episode of Radio GDR - the East Germany podcast, we are joined by Patrick Hoffmann, assistant director, pedagogue and historian at Borderland Museum Eichsfeld, one of the more than 20 museums ...
11 Jun 202149min
Lives of East Germans - The "Authentic Spirit" of Adelheid Wedel (40)
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 fina...
31 Mai 202148min
More Ghosts of East Berlin - Celeste Barber's Fulbright Adventure in the GDR (39)
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, ...
20 Mai 202148min
East German Football - The Turning Season: DDR-Oberliga Revisited with Michael Wagg (38)
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 mad...
9 Mai 20211h 4min
