Late DDR Broadcasting
The mature broadcasting machine at its height: news, pop and rock for the East, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, the Amiga sessions and a building running around the clock until the Wall falls.
Part of Funkhaus Berlin
8 moments in this segment.
- — Manfred Krug records his jazz albums. Actor and singer Manfred Krug, one of the GDR's biggest stars, records his celebrated jazz albums for Amiga at the Funkhaus before his 1977 emigration to the West — a high point of East German popular music.
- — City — "Am Fenster". The Berlin rock band City records "Am Fenster", a seven-minute epic with a soaring violin that becomes one of the most famous East German rock songs ever — and a surprise hit in the West.
- — Puhdys — the rock band of the GDR. The Puhdys, the most successful rock band of East Germany, cut Amiga records and broadcast sessions at the Funkhaus, their hard-edged sound filling the airwaves of the late DDR.
- — Karat — "Über sieben Brücken". Karat's "Über sieben Brücken musst du gehn" becomes one of the defining songs of the GDR, recorded for Amiga and later a hit across the German-speaking world.
- — Stimme der DDR on the air. The Funkhaus produces the full slate of GDR radio: Berliner Rundfunk, Radio DDR and the international service — newsrooms, music shows and propaganda alike flow out of Nalepastraße.
- — Silly — Tamara Danz and the new wave of the East. Fronted by Tamara Danz, Silly brings a sharper, new-wave edge to GDR rock, recording for Amiga and broadcasting from the Funkhaus in the restless final years of the East.
- — A building that never sleeps. At its peak the Funkhaus employs thousands and runs around the clock — studios, archives, canteens and workshops forming a self-contained broadcasting city on the Spree.
- — The Wall falls. On 9 November 1989 the Berlin Wall opens. Within a year the GDR — and the state broadcasting apparatus run from the Funkhaus — will cease to exist, throwing the future of Nalepastraße into question.
