The well-known DDR filmmaker Walter Heynowski died in November 2024 at the age of 96. John Green, an English filmmaker who studied in the DDR and worked as a foreign correspondent for DDR television, wrote the following eulogy for Heynowski’s funeral.
This lecture will examine the development of the theory of “non-capitalist development” in socialist scholarship during the 20th century and highlight some concrete experiences in countries such as Mali, Congo-Brazzaville, Afghanistan, and Syria. When exploring both the successes and limitations of this strategy, we will also discuss how the collapse of the “Eastern bloc” in 1989 and the subsequent rise of China have influenced the prospects of independent development in the former colonies today.
The economic problems and achievements of the anti-fascist-democratic transformation in East Germany (1945–1949)
75th anniversary of the DDR: The significance of the land reform and cooperative movement in East German agriculture
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the unrest during 17 June 1953 in the German Democratic Republic (“East Germany”). With this dossier of translated article excerpts, we want to shed light on significant aspects of the events and make them accessible to an international audience.
On 9 November 1918, the German Empire was toppled after mass uprisings brought the monarchy and First World War to an end. The achievements and limitations of the November Revolution greatly shaped the development of the German state in the fateful decades of the 1920s and 1930s. Analysing the historical lessons of the November Revolution has also been a crucial point of contention within the German workers’ movement, for it raises the question of the working class’s relation to state power.
Professional ethics and health policy do not form a dichotomy. An article on working conditions in the GDR’s health care system.
A lecture by Matthias Krauss, given at the conference “The GDR in All-German History — Missed Opportunity, Dead End, Aftermath,” an event organized by Helle Panke e.V. and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin on October 26, 2021.
On 06.05.2021, the German daily, the junge Welt interviewed two members of the International Research Center DDR (IF DDR) with regard to the backdrop, methods and objectives of the center.
