INTERVIEWS
Interviews are an important part of the IF DDR’s research. This page features an interview archive, which will grow continuously alongside the research projects of the IF DDR. The individual videos feature thematic excerpts from the interviews.
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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the composition of the student body
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John Green describes his team’s production method
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Uwe Trostel on trends in the rate of accumulation and consumption
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Victor Grossman on support for Angela Davis
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John Green describes why and how he worked as a covert reporter
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Dr. Rüdiger Feltz on ensuring an adequate distribution of doctors in the DDR
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Salam Abou Mjahed on the origins and development of the Lebanese Civil War (until 1983)
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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the emergence of the polyclinic in the DDR
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Hans Modrow on the “New Economic System of Planning and Management”
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Wolfgang Herrmann on his tasks as a party advisor to the Sandinistas (FSLN)
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Jörg Roesler on the “New Economic System” (NÖS)
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John Green recounts reporting on the conflict in Ireland
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Helmut Dunkhase on alternatives to market reforms in the real socialism of the 20th centrury
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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the DDR’s health insurance system
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Uwe Trostel describes the starting conditions and trajectory of the GDR’s planned economy
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Hans Modrow on the unrest of 17 June 1953
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Jörg Roesler on Walter Ulbricht’s thesis of socialism as a “relatively independent social formation”
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John Green remembers DDR solidarity with Mozambique
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Dr. Rüdiger Feltz on the basics of prophylaxis in the DDR
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Sigrun Lingel on colonialism and the DDR’s self-perception
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Sigrun Lingel on shortcomings in the DDR’s solidarity
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Sigrun Lingel reflects on the DDR apartment buildings in Zanzibar
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Uwe Trostel explains the economic planning process in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
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Helmut Dunkhase on the necessity of centralisation in a planned economy
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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the central elements of the DDR’s health care system
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Uwe Trostel explains the role of trade unions
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Salam Abou Mjahed explains the roles of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria in the Middle East
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Victor Grossman on the Democratic German Report
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Regina Klein recalls health care in the workplace
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John Green describes reporting on everyday life in West Germany
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Dr. Heinrich Niemann answers: “What could have been done better in the DDR’s health policy?”
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Sigrun Lingel remembers schooling in Tanzania and Zanzibar
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John Green describes reporting on Namibia’s liberation struggle
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Victor Grossman on international students in the DDR
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Jörg Roesler on moral (non-material) work incentives
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Victor Grossman recalls the Rosenberg case
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Victor Grossman on worldwide acts of solidarity
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Jörg Roesler on the GDR’s economic solidarity
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Dr. Heinrich Niemann recounts his post-war childhood
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Helmut Dunkhase explains the problem of price formation in socialism
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Victor Grossman on Allende’s legacy in the DDR
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Victor Grossman recalls fleeing from US military persecution
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Helmut Dunkhase describes the origins of market-oriented reforms in the socialist states (1950s/60s)
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Victor Grossman on antifascist beginnings
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Hans Watzek on the Peasants’ Mutual Aid Association and Machine-Tractor Stations
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Monika Strauß contrasts the standing of women in East and West Germany
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Monika Strauß on women in leadership
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Hans Modrow on socialist democracy
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Helmut Dunkhase describes the debate on pricing in the GDR during the 1960s (the law of value)
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Wolfgang Herrmann discusses advising the Sandinistas on writing a new constitution
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Dr. Heinrich Niemann discusses the DDR’s approach to vaccinations
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Victor Grossman on internationalist festivals in the DDR
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Sigrun Lingel contrasts DDR solidarity and West German aid
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Uwe Trostel describes his path to the GDR’s state apparatus and coming to appreciate the communists
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Hans Watzek recalls te post-war years and land reform in East Germany
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Helmut Dunkhase summarizes the difference between market and planned economies
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John Green describes his childhood and early interest in film
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John Green recounts how he came to study in the DDR
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Hans Modrow on the initiation of economic planning in East Germany
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Wolfgang Herrmann describes how he became a party advisor to the Sandinistas
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Hans Watzek on the collectivisation of agriculture in East Germany
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Victor Grossman on the final years of the DDR
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Victor Grossman on the economic baseline of the German Democratic Republic
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Jörg Roesler on the phases of the DDR economy
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Wolfgang Herrmann reflects on internationalism
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John Green recalls reporting on Portugal’s Carnation Revolution
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John Green describes increased political stringency in DDR television in the 1980s
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Helmut Dunkhase’s critique of market-oriented reforms in socialism
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John Green reflects on his work and the social struggles he reported on
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Wolfgang Herrmann reflects on socialism
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Victor Grossman reflects on the integration of international groups in the DDR
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Wolfgang Herrmann remembers the arrival of the Red Army
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John Green on the DDR’s international film traineeship
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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the medical brain drain from the DDR
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Chile, the coup and the GDR — An interview with Gudrun Mertschenk
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Dr. Rüdiger Feltz — “from patients to customers”
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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the political responsibility of the doctor
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Uwe Trostel describes the basic character of the GDR’s planned economy
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Hans Watzek on the objective of the 1945/46 land reform
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Uwe Trostel describes pricing problems
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Salam Abou Mjahed on the emergence and objectives of the national liberation movement in Lebanon
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Hans Watzek on the role and development of the Democratic Peasants’ Party (DBD)
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Dr. Heinrich Niemann on health protection in the workplace in the DDR
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John Green recounts beginning to work for DDR television
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