DT64: Chronik einer angekündigten Abwicklung

English title: Youth Radio DT64: Chronicle of a Dissolution Foretold
Germany | 58' |1994 | documentary
directed by Ulrike Hemberger and Rainer Hällfritzsch (WIM- Werkstatt für interkulturelle Medienarbeit)
German original version

DT64 was the youth radio station of the GDR, founded on the occasion of the "German Youth Meeting 1964". For a long time, DT64 remained a propaganda channel with pop music. Yet in the months before the Wall came down in 1989, the station became an important source of information for the GDR civil rights movement, mainly because of its live reports of strikes and demonstrations. Although the youth radio station was very popular with listeners due to its proximity to the audience, DT64 was forced to shut down in the 1990s. Today, the DT64 trademark rights belong to the private broadcaster Antenne MV. The film documents this process, how a state radio was developing into something more grassroots
and exciting before the reunification hurled what tantalizingly might have been onto the garbage heap of history.

Followed by talk with co-director Ulrike Hemberger and Alexander Pehlemann (in German)