Finally, during the s and s — a period when increasing numbers of East Germans were able to access West German television relatively easily — these strategies were supplemented by the regular import of carefully selected popular films from the West. Richter herself worked on the script for Eine sonderbare Liebe [A Strange Love, ] in collaboration with Wolfram Witt, a graduate of dramaturgy from the national Film and Were they communists? What forms does media convergence take in the GDR? While Heynowski only dealt with officials when their film careers required it, Scheumann was a willing Stasi informer since
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