Greetings from Alina Laura Tiews from Hamburg and Marie Cronqvist from Lund, who met up last week at the Deutsche Rundfunkarchiv (DRA) in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Alina is finishing up her doctoral thesis on the portrayal of the Germans’ flight and expulsion in East and West German movies, and at the DRA, she has been working with scripts and reviews of the GDR series ”Wege übers Land” (1968), ”Daniel Druskat” (1976) and the ”Märkische Chronik” (1983, 1989). Marie was excited to start up her new project on the television programme exchange between Sweden and the GDR from the late 1960s to 1990.
We were also able to visit the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) in Potsdam. There we had a productive lunch meeting with Dr Thomas Beutelschmidt and Dr Christoph Classen, who were very generous and shared some of their vast knowledge on the media history of the GDR.
/Alina & Marie