HISTORICAL FACTS: 3 - Caught on Camera

Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything review – erotic obsession in East Germany

Emily Atef’s drama, following a dreamy teenager into an affair with a middle-aged man, addresses difficult material with a driving narrative force

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2023

Hans Modrow obituary

Last communist prime minister of East Germany whose proposals for a slow process of reunification were pushed aside

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2023

East Germany's last Communist premier dies aged 95

Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany's hard-left Die Linke party said on Saturday.

Reuters · Feb 11, 2023

Mikhail Gorbachev — the towering figure of Russian politics who will never be forgotten

He was Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev – the man who made Glasnost (transparency) and Perestroika (economic reform) household words far beyond the Soviet Union he fought to reform. To the young people I watched greet him hungrily in East Germany in 1989 as a symbol that change was possible, he was…

Evening Standard · Aug 31, 2022

Jörg Thomasius: Acht Gesänge der schwarzen Hunde review – groundbreaking electronics from East Germany

A compilation of DIY releases smuggled out of 1980s East Berlin on cassette includes glistening minimalism, pulsating grooves and wonky techno

The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2022

Germany okays sale of former GDR infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine

Germany has approved the delivery to Ukraine of several dozen infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) that originally belonged to the former communist East Germany amid criticism that Berlin is not sending enough military aid to Kyiv.

Reuters · Apr 1, 2022

The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann review – paper spies

The strange true story of how East Germany’s secret service tried to win the cold war with verse

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2022

Russian mobilization in Ukraine raises concerns about a new Cold War-style era in Europe

BERLIN — Although Udo Grelzik spent almost half his life under communist rule in East Germany, he never anticipated the threat of anything like a new Cold War in Europe.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 23, 2022

Is the flag of former East Germany flying at the Beijing Olympics? Not so fast

Social media posts say that a black, red and gold flag, emblazoned with a hammer, compass and wreath of corn – the flag of the former communist East Germany – was seen at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in China, which is ruled by the Communist Party. But the photo,…

France 24 · Feb 17, 2022

Werner Grossmann obituary

Head of East Germany’s foreign intelligence service who helped to recruit 1,500 West German spies during the cold war

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2022