GDR – People's World

Pan-African Film Festival: Growing up Black in the GDR

February 28, 2024 By Ed Rampell

From Berlin to Benin and Togo - and back again.

Heaven divided: Fear and loathing in West Germany

February 27, 2024 By Taylor Dorrell

Wim Wenders' supposedly apolitical film Wings of Desire depicts West Germany as the reverse image of a capitalist utopia.

What qualifies one as a U.S. patriot?

July 5, 2023 By Victor Grossman

A man who deserted the U.S. Army to live in a communist country gives us his answer.

East German author Katja Oskamp wins Dublin Literary Award with ‘Marzahn, Mon Amour’

June 1, 2023 By Jenny Farrell

Oskamp writes with understanding and compassion, preserving and enacting the sense of solidarity and community that was a feature of GDR society.

Hans Modrow, 1928-2023: Son of the German Democratic Republic

February 22, 2023 By Keith Barlow

The man who oversaw the peaceful yet tragic end to state socialism in the east, then stayed to fight for the working class in the newly unified Germany, passed away on February 10, aged 95.