Now that “DDR/DDR,” Amie Siegel’s film essay on ... the antiquated recording equipment favored by the Stasi, the East German secret police are well within the range of current commercial ...

Much of the former East Germany has had its vestiges of that era wiped away, inspiring an odd longing for the 40 years the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) held power that is called Ostalgie ...

For them, January 15, 1990, was a time of hope — the day that spelled, in effect, the end of East Germany, or Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR). It was a state created by Moscow out of the ...

in the one free space left in East German society. The church retained the resources to resist the materialism that guided DDR policy. Indeed, the church, historically lampooned for not following ...

What we Americans think of when we think of East Germany, this scene from the Zucker Brothers’ classic Top Secret comes to mind: Val Kilmer aside, the DDR government was such a subject of ...

Three generations after East Germany rejected Christianity, group of prayerful believers now see an opportunity. When Aaron Köhler tries to talk to people in Cottbus, Germany, about Jesus ...

As the Palast der Republik, the former house of the East German parliament is gradually dismantled, a new temple to the failed state has opened its doors a stone's throw away: the DDR Museum.

Presented by SUNY Cortland’s Project on Eastern and Central Europe (PECE), events in “Imagining the West from East Germany, i.e., the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR)” are free and open to the ...