German Democratic Republic in Podcasts

Ja Barasan Etirajan. The German TV series Auf Fritz's Spuren, or In Fritz's Footsteps, has won an Emmy. The programme is based in communist East Germany, the German Democratic Republic, or GDR, as it was known then. It tells the story of a 12-year-old girl living in Leipzig and the events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Julian Jensen, who's one of the main actors in the series, says making a political programme for children was challenging.

The East German government of the German Democratic Republic, and of course West Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany.