Almost at once she went on went on to extend her media experience, with television appearances during 1989 on East German programmes such as the shows "Feuerabend" and . Awards followed quickly, including both a so-called prize and the audience award at the 1990 International Schlager Festival in Moscow. Over the years that followed she made numerous further appearances performed on schlager shows on public service television channels across Germany, especially (though not exclusively) those transmitted during the peak-viewing Saturday evening slots. The shows in question included , ZDF-Hitparade, and . Bresan's television music career took off not just in the so-called &lt;a href="New%20states%20of%20Germany"&gt;"Neue Bundesländer" / "new federal states"&lt;/a&gt; (before 1990 the &lt;a href="German%20Democratic%20Republic"&gt;"German Democratic Republic" / "GDR")&lt;/a&gt;, but also in the western parts of Germany from which, during the first 24 years of Bresan's life, the "GDR" had been brutally separated.