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When the wall came down - listeners' stories: 13.11.2009
Where were you on the 9th of November 1989, the day the Berlin Wall ceased to divide? In the week leading up to the 20th anniversary of the event, we broadcast our listeners’ stories.
When she heard about it in on the banned western radio broadcasters, Ulrike Brandenburg thought the news from the opened border was a hoax. Back then Ulrike was in year 12. Florian Messner spoke with her in Sydney, where she now lives and works as a doctor. A collage with historical sound recordings.
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When the wall came down - listeners' stories: 13.11.2009
Where were you on the 9th of November 1989, the day the Berlin Wall ceased to divide? In the week leading up to the 20th anniversary of the event, we broadcast our listeners’ stories.
Gisela had been living on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria for 35 years, when the wall came down. Originally from the Pommern in Germany and Poland, she was displaced after the war, so freedom was bittersweet for her. Patrick Wauthier reads her letter.
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When the wall came down - listeners' stories: 13.11.2009
Where were you on the 9th of November 1989, the day the Berlin Wall ceased to divide? In the week leading up to the 20th anniversary of the event, we broadcast our listeners’ stories.
Thilo Speckbauer lived in West Germany. When he learnt about the events on TV, he had to go and see for himself. Christian Froelicher spoke to him.
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When the wall came down - listeners' stories: 6.11.2009
Where were you on the 9th of November 1989, the day the Berlin Wall ceased to divide? In the week leading up to the 20th anniversary of the event, we broadcast our listeners’ stories.
Andrea Kleist was there, and Christian Froelicher spoke to her.
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When the wall came down - listeners' stories: 6.11.2009
Where were you on the 9th of November 1989, the day the Berlin Wall ceased to divide? In the week leading up to the 20th anniversary of the event, we broadcast our listeners’ stories.
Ingrid in Kooyong saw the GDR from the West. She remembers grey being replaced by colour as well as East-German ingenuity and craftsmanship. Ingrid's letter is read by Katharina Kerzdörfer.
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When the wall came down - listeners' stories: 6.11.2009
Where were you on the 9th of November 1989, the day the Berlin Wall ceased to divide? In the week leading up to the 20th anniversary of the event, we broadcast our listeners’ stories.
Nine-year-old Susi Reimann knew it wasn’t possible to see her relatives on the western side of the Wall - until that fateful school day in '89. Pamela Rauleder spoke with her.
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On the GDR - Hubertus Knabe - part 1: 17.9.2009
The legacy of the former Stasi, the former GDR’s main inner security organ, continues to incite debates in Germany. These discussions are proof that, 20 years after the wall came down, there are still not many generally accepted answers – to questions such as: How should German society deal with the thousands of Stasi-operatives? Is it always necessary to continually bring up the past, or would it be better to just let society move on? Hubertus Knabe is a historian, Stasi-expert and the Academic Director of the Museum Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen – a former Stasi prison. Oliver Heuthe spoke to Hubertus Knabe in Melbourne.
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Kazakhstan in German: 4.9.2009
Kazakhstan - a country known for its steppe, Perestroika and oil reserves. However, little is known about the people who inhabit the enormous territory. Oliver Heuthe met up with Kazakhs of German origin, who stayed in the country, despite of waves of emigration. ‘Germanness’ celebrates a ‘Wiedergeburt’: find out in our exclusive in-depth report if this ‘rebirth’ has been successful.
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Rebirth of a nation: 5.6.2009
On the 23rd of May 1949 the new Basic Constitutional Law went into force in Germany. This event ever since has been referred to as the birth of the current German republic - which makes 2009 the the year of its 60th anniversary. The path leading to its creation, however, had been defined much earlier - by the Allies. Kathleen Wächter turns the wheel of time.
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080922 Correspondent's Report from Austria: 18.2.2009
Trudi Latour talks to Maria Radner in Salzburg, in our weekly report about the latest political and cultural events in Austria.
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