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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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John Green describes his childhood and early interest in film

Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the central elements of the DDR’s health care system

Sigrun Lingel on shortcomings in the DDR’s solidarity

Dr. Heinrich Niemann on health protection in the workplace in the DDR

Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the emergence of the polyclinic in the DDR

Helmut Dunkhase describes the origins of market-oriented reforms in the socialist states (1950s/60s)

Victor Grossman on international students in the DDR

Victor Grossman on worldwide acts of solidarity

Hans Watzek on the role and development of the Democratic Peasants’ Party (DBD)

John Green describes reporting on everyday life in West Germany

Monika Strauß contrasts the standing of women in East and West Germany

Victor Grossman on the final years of the DDR

Dr. Heinrich Niemann recounts his post-war childhood

Jörg Roesler on the “New Economic System” (NÖS)

Hans Modrow on the unrest of 17 June 1953

Sigrun Lingel contrasts DDR solidarity and West German aid

Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the medical brain drain from the DDR

John Green recounts reporting on the conflict in Ireland

Victor Grossman on the Democratic German Report

Wolfgang Herrmann reflects on internationalism

John Green remembers DDR solidarity with Mozambique

Hans Watzek on the Peasants’ Mutual Aid Association and Machine-Tractor Stations

Victor Grossman on antifascist beginnings

John Green describes increased political stringency in DDR television in the 1980s

Jörg Roesler on the GDR’s economic solidarity

Dr. Rüdiger Feltz on ensuring an adequate distribution of doctors in the DDR

Helmut Dunkhase explains the problem of price formation in socialism

Hans Watzek on the collectivisation of agriculture in East Germany

John Green recounts how he came to study in the DDR

John Green on the DDR’s international film traineeship

Wolfgang Herrmann on his tasks as a party advisor to the Sandinistas (FSLN)

Dr. Heinrich Niemann answers: “What could have been done better in the DDR’s health policy?”

Dr. Rüdiger Feltz on the basics of prophylaxis in the DDR

Uwe Trostel explains the economic planning process in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)

Jörg Roesler on the phases of the DDR economy

Uwe Trostel on trends in the rate of accumulation and consumption

Jörg Roesler on Walter Ulbricht’s thesis of socialism as a “relatively independent social formation”

Dr. Heinrich Niemann discusses the DDR’s approach to vaccinations

Regina Klein recalls health care in the workplace

Wolfgang Herrmann discusses advising the Sandinistas on writing a new constitution

Helmut Dunkhase summarizes the difference between market and planned economies

Uwe Trostel describes the basic character of the GDR’s planned economy

Monika Strauß on women in leadership

Victor Grossman on Allende’s legacy in the DDR

Victor Grossman on internationalist festivals in the DDR

Hans Watzek recalls te post-war years and land reform in East Germany

John Green recalls reporting on Portugal’s Carnation Revolution

Wolfgang Herrmann describes how he became a party advisor to the Sandinistas

John Green describes why and how he worked as a covert reporter

Dr. Rüdiger Feltz — “from patients to customers”

Hans Watzek on the objective of the 1945/46 land reform

Sigrun Lingel remembers schooling in Tanzania and Zanzibar

Uwe Trostel describes the starting conditions and trajectory of the GDR’s planned economy

Wolfgang Herrmann reflects on socialism

John Green recounts beginning to work for DDR television

Victor Grossman recalls the Rosenberg case

Helmut Dunkhase on alternatives to market reforms in the real socialism of the 20th centrury

Uwe Trostel explains the role of trade unions

Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the DDR’s health insurance system

Sigrun Lingel on colonialism and the DDR’s self-perception

Victor Grossman reflects on the integration of international groups in the DDR

Victor Grossman on the economic baseline of the German Democratic Republic

Helmut Dunkhase describes the debate on pricing in the GDR during the 1960s (the law of value)

Sigrun Lingel reflects on the DDR apartment buildings in Zanzibar

Uwe Trostel describes his path to the GDR’s state apparatus and coming to appreciate the communists

Helmut Dunkhase’s critique of market-oriented reforms in socialism

Victor Grossman on support for Angela Davis

Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the political responsibility of the doctor

Jörg Roesler on moral (non-material) work incentives

Dr. Heinrich Niemann on the composition of the student body

Hans Modrow on socialist democracy

Hans Modrow on the initiation of economic planning in East Germany

Wolfgang Herrmann remembers the arrival of the Red Army

Hans Modrow on the “New Economic System of Planning and Management”

Victor Grossman recalls fleeing from US military persecution

Uwe Trostel describes pricing problems

Helmut Dunkhase on the necessity of centralisation in a planned economy

John Green describes reporting on Namibia’s liberation struggle

John Green reflects on his work and the social struggles he reported on

John Green describes his team’s production method

Chile, the coup and the GDR — An interview with Gudrun Mertschenk

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