UPDATE: Thanks to the commenters on this blog! I have to defuse this article. I have never seen any DDR movie to the best time (in fact I haven’t seen any), or at the biggest brodcast-station - but there are some! Click here and search after DDR or Defa:
http://www.mdr.de/tv/programm/
http://www.rbb-online.de/fernsehen/programm/
http://www.ard-digital.de/

Alright, I’m fed up with it. I have never seen any TV-Program from DDR, german democratic republic till 1989, in german public TV since 1989. The german public TV (ARD and ZDF + local TV stations) prevented us bill paying people from seeing movies from east germany for nearly 16 years! I don’t belief that there is any censorship, but I ask a very simple question here: Why did the german public TV broadcast only old movies from west-germany?

The german public TV is paid by everyone who owns a TV. In return the public TV-stations have to produce program that is relevant to the public. Its programm has to contain cultural, political and educational program. I ask again: why do we westgerman watchers not get the experience of the east-german TV, but only of old westgerman Heimatfilme, Schwarzwaldklinik und Lindenstrasse? I demand DDR TV-Program on ARD and ZDF!

Professor Brinkmann and his Schwarzwaldklinik staff

Conclusion: people from east-germany have a more rich mass-media experience than people in the west. They know the east and the west german TV-Programme in opposition to the west-german people. Btw: I also never have seen ANY picture of art from the DDR, whether on TV nor at the museum. Why?

A whole cultural era of TV-Program is withhold to watchers from west-germany. West-german watchers only know west TV-Program (ARD, ZDF, Heimatfilm, die Schwarzwaldklinik mit Professor (Prof.) Brinkmann). West-german watchers never had seen ANY movie form the DDR. And that is a real shame!