Gay spies and espionage….absolutely one of the most incredible topics you can study about the GDR. On today's episode of Radio GD…
Venceremos! We will overcome! This one word defined the socialist political movement of Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile an…
From an outside perspective, it would seem that human rights would be an idea that the East German regime would have had great di…
This episode seeks to answer a burning question - what does an artist do with a piece of the Berlin Wall? In our last episode, we…
There are many pieces of the Berlin Wall on display all around the world. How did universities, museums and other places secure t…
We Radio GDR hosts all agree on this simple truth - our favorite interviews are of you the listeners and members of the Facebook …
In 1952, a 24-year old American soldier defected to the Eastern Bloc in order to avoid a US Army disciplinary hearing and what he…
In our first interview of season 3, we speak with Michael Califra, author of "No Man's Land," one of our favorite works of fictio…
Welcome to Radio GDR Season 3! Join Steve Minegar, Shane Whaley, Anke Holst and John Paul Kleiner as we talk about what we’ve bee…
Radio GDR co-hosts, Steve and Shane share news of the upcoming Season 3 and how you can help us!
In this episode of Radio GDR our host John Paul Kleiner () interviews Debby Pattiz about the unusual semester she spent in the GD…
What do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies? By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service …
Thanks to Tim Mohr for taking time to speak with John Paul Kleiner (GDR Objectified blog) and Prof. Ed Larkey (University of Mary…
In this episode of Radio GDR - the East Germany podcast, we are joined by Patrick Hoffmann, assistant director, pedagogue and his…
From being raised by a World War 2 veteran who spent time in a Soviet prison camp to having of view of the Berlin Wall from her a…
This episode of Radio GDR, the East Germany podcast, lives up to Paul Harvey's famous expression, "and now you know the rest of t…
A conversation with author Michael Wagg. In The Turning Season, he goes in search of hidden histories and footballing ghosts fro…
John Paul Kleiner chats with the author of Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany. Andrew Demshuk. …
John Paul Kleiner and Dr Ed Larkey return to Radio GDR/The East Germany Podcast for part 3 in our series on East German Pop Music…
In this episode of Radio GDR East Germany podcast, Steve Minegar speaks with Dr. Claudia Sandberg. a film scholar and filmmaker a…
On today's episode of the East Germany Podcast, GDR Objectified's John Paul Kleiner and Shane Whaley chat with the Herr Helge Hei…
In this episode, our hosts return to look at the broad theme of pop and politics in East Germany. 'So we're looking at ways that …
Today we chat with the author of Interflug - East Germany's airline, Sebastian Schmitz. This is the first book published in Engli…
On this episode of Radio GDR the East Germany Podcast, Steve Minegar explores the lives of East Germans who, in the name of inter…