page_title: East Germany
section_title: Television and radio
hierarchical_section_title: East Germany / Culture / Television and radio
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Berlin, Sandmännchen ADN-ZB/Senft/9.11.79/Berlin: Zum 20. Geburtstag des Sandmännchens/ Gerhard Behrendt, der künstlerische Leiter des Fernseh-Trickfilmstudios, ist der "Vater" des Sandmännchens. Wie alle Väter ist er sehr stolz auf sein Kind, das am 22.11.79 schon zwanzig Jahre alt wird und doch ewig jung bleibt. Das Sandmännchen hat auch einige Wachstumsstadien durchlaufen, ehe es so aussah wie heute: 22 cm groß, lustige schwarze Knopfaugen, grüne Joppe mit Cape und Zipfelmütze, braune Kordhose, hellgraue Lederstiefelchen. Abgebildete Personen: Behrend, Gerhard: Künstlerischer Leiter der Puppentrickfilmstudios beim Fernsehen, DDR
context_page_description: East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, was a socialist republic that existed from 1949 to 1990, the period when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state in English usage, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state". It consisted of territory that was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the end of World War II—the Soviet occupation zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.
  The GDR was established in the Soviet zone while the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly referred to as West Germany, was established in the three western zones. A satellite state of the Soviet Union, Soviet occupation authorities began transferring administrative responsibility to German communist leaders in 1948 and the GDR began to function as a state on 7 October 1949. However, Soviet forces remained in the country throughout the Cold War.
context_section_description: Television and radio in East Germany were state-run industries; the Rundfunk der DDR was the official radio broadcasting organisation from 1952 until unification. The organization was based in the Funkhaus Nalepastraße in East Berlin. Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF), from 1972 to 1990 known as Fernsehen der DDR or DDR-FS, was the state television broadcaster from 1952. Reception of Western broadcasts was widespread.
caption: Gerhard Behrendt with character from the stop-animation series Sandmännchen
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