Radio GDR - East Germany Podcast

In this episode of the Radio GDR Podcast, Jordan Heyburn talks about his passion for collecting East German stamps. He also shares tips on how you can get started with your very own DDR Stamp collection. This is the first in our DDR Collectors Series. Do you collect something GDR related? Let us know, we would love to chat with you on the Radio GDR podcast.

Interview with the author of: Behind the Iron Curtain: A Teacher's Guide to East Germany. Jeffrey discusses teaching Cold War activities through an East German perspective. Topics in this book include the beginnings of East Germany, the creation of the Stasi, the Berlin Wall, youth and education, a planned economy, life and society of East Germans, and the events that led to the fall of communism....

On today's podcast, I bring you a conversation with Julian Herbig, who is the PR and Communications Manager at Timeride.de Julian tells us more about the experience itself as well as the story behind the Checkpoint Charlie Virtual Reality Tour and the VR experience of East Berlin. Now we can immerse ourselves in Cold War West and East Berlin.

A Fly On the Wall Report from the Radio GDR Berlin Meetup. Listen in as we chat with listeners of the Radio GDR podcast in Berlin for our Radio GDR Meetup. They share with us why they are interested in East Germany and what they learned at the Berlin MeetUp.

On this episode of Radio GDR, the podcast about East Germany, we talk to Steve Winkler about his life supporting the team they love to hate - Dynamo Berlin.

On Episode 15 of the Radio GDR Podcast, former Radio Berlin International employee Steve Winkler talks to us about life growing up with parents who worked for the GDR Diplomatic Service. It later transpired that Steve's Dad worked for Markus Wolf's HVA, the Stasi's Foreign Intelligence Service. East Germany's HVA is regarded by some as the most effective foreign intelligence service during the Col...

On Episode 14 of the Radio GDR Podcast, the world's only English language podcast about East Germany, host Shane Whaley gives you the low down on a new Berlin attraction TimeRide Berlin that allows you to travel into East Germany via Checkpoint Charlie. I kid you not, the TimeRide Berlin, a new virtual reality experience in Berlin made me feel like I was a time traveler. Full disclosure, this was...

On Episode 13 of the Radio GDR Podcast, the world's only English language podcast about East Germany, host Shane Whaley interviews Steve Winkler who worked at East Germany's Radio Berlin International as a Line Producer/Studio Manager. How Steve was initially rejected by radio station DT64 before he was hired at RBI. Was he vetted for the role? Whether he needed to be a SED party member to work at...

On Episode 12 of the Radio GDR Podcast, GDR Objectified's John Paul Kleiner interviews Professor Luise von Flutow who translated the East German novel 'They Divided The Sky' by Christa Wolf into English.

After six years of work, we interview the producers behind Open Memory Box which encompasses 415 hours of home movies that 150 families made in East Germany between 1947 and 1990, the collection covers everything from birthday parties to burial, from May Day demonstrations to attempts to flee the country.  

Radio GDR host Shane Whaley shares 38 Things I learned about East Germany from reading Burning Down The Haus by Tim Mohr. I thoroughly Burning Down The Haus and you do not have to be a fan of punk rock to enjoy it. The book reveals the sub culture (and bravery!) of the East German punk scene. By reading Tim Mohr's book we learn a lot about life in East Germany.

On this episode of the Radio GDR East Germany podcast, Host Shane Whaley brings you a conversation with Dr. Hester Vaizey, the author of the book Born in the GDR - Living in the Shadow of the Wall.

On this episode of the Radio GDR East Germany podcast, Host Shane Whaley brings you a conversation with Dr. Hester Vaizey, the author of the book Born in the GDR - Living in the Shadow of the Wall.

On this episode of the Radio GDR podcast, hosts  Shane Whaley and  GDR Objectified's John Paul Kleiner talk East German football with author Alan McDougall. There are not many English language books chronicling football in East Germany so we were delighted to chat with Alan. He is the author of  The People's Game: Football State and Society in East Germany and he joins Radio GDR for a wide-ranging...

On this episode of the Radio GDR East Germany podcast host Shane Whaley talks with GDR Objectified's John Paul Kleiner about a bizarre football game that took place at FC Stahl Brandenburg in '92 and how it highlights that not all was rosy in the newly united Germany. Shane tells us how he discovered a crazy Stahl Brandenburg football clip on youtube which he shared on his Facebook page.  (Only 5...

On this episode of the Radio GDR East Germany podcast Shane records his thoughts following a guided tour of the Hohenschonhausen Stasi Prison in East Berlin and questions whether he wants to continue with the podcast based on what he has seen and heard.

DDR Museum Director Gordon Von Godin joins  Shane Whaley on the Radio GDR Podcast. They talk about the mission of the GDR Museum, as well as the importance of remembering the history of East Germany and Gordon's upbringing in the former East Germany. And much More!

Radio GDR, the podcast all about East Germany caught up with the man behind the epic GDR Objectified - probably one of the best websites about East Germany in english on the net today. On this episode of the GDR podcast John Paul Kleiner shares with us why he is still fascinated with East Germany/German Democratic Republic after all these years.

On this episode of Radio GDR, we talk to Joes Segal Chief Curator of the Wende Museum in LA. He shares more with us about the mission of the cold war art museum as well as how they pick which of their 100,000 items to display and much more!   These are some of the topics we cover: Joes Segal shares more about himself and how he came to be associated with the Wende museum. He shares more about the...

On this episode of the Radio GDR podcast, Ellin Hare talks to us about her documentary about everyday life in East Germany titled 'From Us to Me.'  They become the only British film crew to make a documentary inside the German Democratic Republic. In November 1989, a year after the film's release, the fall of the Wall signals the end of the GDR. 25 years later the British come back…..

Life in the former East Germany holds an ongoing fascination for a lot of people. Join us as we learn more about the former East Germany.  Radio German Democratic Republic is a blog and podcast designed to educate and inform on the life and times of East Germany. Radio GDR is hosted by Anke Holst who grew up in the GDR and Shane Whaley, a Brit, who has had a lifelong fascination with East Germany....