ZDF magazine

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Television broadcast
Original title ZDF magazine
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1969-1988
Production
company
ZDF
genre Politmagazin
Moderation
First broadcast January 8, 1969 on ZDF

The ZDF magazine was a television program broadcast by ZDF every other week from 1969 to 1988 , which was directed and moderated by Gerhard Löwenthal . The main content of the magazine was political reports; The show became known because of its contributions about the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, especially about the GDR . It was considered the counterpart to the program The Black Channel with Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler on GDR television .

Content focus

Gerhard Löwenthal took a decidedly and often polarizing approach in the ZDF magazine, so that he came under the sights of the GDR Ministry for State Security . The program was also controversial in the Federal Republic and was heavily criticized by the political left. Löwenthal in turn attacked the left and Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik . The ZDF magazine saw itself as a forum for GDR residents who were victims of the SED dictatorship. Such complaints or concerns expressed in letters to the editorial team were published by Löwenthal - including the name and address of the sender - in the section called for help from over there .

Fritz Schenk worked as a co-moderator from 1971. On December 23, 1987, Löwenthal hosted the show for the last time and was then - against his express will - retired after reaching the age of 65. The GDR Ministry for State Security celebrated this like a victory. In the months that followed, up to the last broadcast on March 30, 1988, the former co-moderator Fritz Schenk took over the moderation and Bodo H. Hauser took over the management of the broadcast. The title music of the ZDF magazine came from the first movement ( "Intrada" ) of the Concerto for Orchestra by Witold Lutosławski .

The ZDF magazine was broadcast on Wednesdays, alternating weekly, with the D flag , in favor of the policy of détente. The successor to the ZDF magazine was the broadcast Studio 1 .

Calls for help from over there

The occasion for the series of Calls for Help from over there was the final act of the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( CSCE ), which was also signed by the government in East Berlin . In basket 3, the u. a. As for human rights , it also stated that "freer movement and contact" should be made possible between persons of the participating States. Löwenthal ran the text of the final act several times over the screen, so that the residents of the GDR could take notes. Then came the first calls for help, the number of which increased very quickly and led to the broadcast of the column of the same name.

After the broadcast was canceled, Gerhard Löwenthal and his employees continued their work as part of an association of the same name .

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Individual evidence

  1. See the description in the FAZ of November 13, 2006
  2. Berliner Philharmoniker - the magazine March / April 2009, page 19