Not just a file
Not just a file - from the practice of socialist justice was a series of reports on radio in the GDR , which was based on court reports and was broadcast biweekly on Radio DDR I and repeated on Radio DDR II from February 1960 to March 1990 .
History and structure
The initiator of the series was the reporter Udo Krause . At the beginning of the 1960s, the Radio DDR Hörbericht editorial team to which he belonged intended to make their biweekly broadcasting time audibly more exciting and interesting with more conflict -oriented reports. At the same time, in the 1960s, the means and methods of administering justice in the GDR had begun. Non-custodial sentences were introduced as a separate type of punishment. The conflict commissions in the workforce of the GDR economy were now also given tasks outside of labor law. To this end, the series should help develop a new understanding of the problem.
Large parts of the half-hour broadcasts were determined by the original sound directly from the courtroom. Not only the appeal of the criminal case, occupation of the chamber, etc. were reproduced in the original sound, but also the questioning of the accused, the statements of witnesses, the pleadings of the public prosecutor and the defense. The personal rights were only complied with in that by shortening cuts when naming the accused, their full family name was not reproduced 1: 1. The selection and editing of the original sound passages from the courtroom and their commentary was in the hands of reporter Udo Krause, and after his early death in 1988 - he died at the age of 56 - Lothar Tautz took over the series .