State Committee for Television

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The State Committee for Television (SKF) was founded on September 15, 1968 in East Berlin and was the highest governing body for television in the GDR until the fall of the GDR . The television committee was formally subordinate to the GDR Council of Ministers .

With it, an institution was created as a supplement to the State Committee for Broadcasting (radio), which took into account the growing role of GDR television in the country's media system and which, according to the political-centralistic principle, was supposed to ensure state coordination and control of television at the same time.

As a result, the second program was founded, which began in 1969 with broadcast in Dresden, Dequede and Berlin. The work of the State Committee for Television, led by the chairman, Heinz Adameck , resulted in numerous directives and resolutions that were used in the departments of GDR television as templates for journalistic and largely political-ideological objectives.

End of the committee

Hans Modrow , as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, dismissed SKF Chairman Adameck from his post with effect from November 30, 1989 at his own request. The Council of Ministers then decided to transfer Adameck's function from December 1 to Hans Bentzien as the new general manager of the GDR television. By a further resolution of the Council of Ministers of December 21, 1989, the State Committee for Television was officially renamed "Television of the GDR" and the General Director was entrusted with the formation of a television council. The General Director remained initially responsible for reporting to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers until the Media Control Council was constituted in February 1990, which replaced the Council of Ministers as the supervisory body of television, which also ended the history of the committee subordinate to the Council of Ministers. On March 15, 1990, the Council of Ministers finally confirmed the conversion of the former GDR television into the independent, public corporation "Deutscher Fernsehfunk".

literature

  • Jost-Arend Bösenberg: The Current Camera (1952–1990). Control mechanisms on television in the GDR. (Publications of the German Broadcasting Archive 38), Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-935035-66-7 .
  • Franca Wolff: Glasnost just before the end of broadcasting: The last years of GDR television (1985–1989 / 90). Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-412-08602-9 .
  • Torsten F. Barthel: Television as a means of state communication and ideological apologetics in the GDR. GRIN Verlag 2009, ISBN 3-640-36157-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulf Rathje and Chris Fengler: Introduction (5. The end of GDR television (1989 to 1991)) ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / startext.net-build.de archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the documentation State Committee for Television, Part 1: Meeting documents 1953–1991 in the German Federal Archives on March 16, 2009, accessed on June 13, 2013

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