Subject: Re: Film about Steinstücken
Date: Oct 09, 2004 @ 00:58
Author: L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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Who will boradcast it?
I gtet German TV here in Washington DC by sattelite, and ZDF is
available on line.
I'll tape it and distribute DvDs if someone can tell me over which
network it will be broadcast.
Regards
Len

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Doug Murray <doug@d...> wrote:
>
> I had a friend translate the listing for the film:
>
> Steinstuecken is an island that belonged West Berlin but was in the
> middle
> of the area of Potsdam - or better the DDR!
>
> The residents living there, lived in constant terror. Since 1952 170
> West-Berliners were isolated from the outside world. They had to take a
> 1km forrested road through the DDR with border control (NVA soldiers) to
> get to West Berlin.
>
> Gabriele Leech Ansprach lived there since the 20's and during her
> childhood she remembers Steinstuecken as a place of art & culture where
> many actors and architects lived.
>
> During the war it was a place of refuge for Berliners who had been
> bombed
> out of their homes. 9 years before the wall was built the East German
> (DDR) gov't sealed the island off. In order to protect the residents
> the
> US military stationed 3 military policemen on the island. Only these
> three men and the residents of Steinstuecken had access to the "island".
>
> In 1971 things improved when the US managed to get an agreement signed
> by
> the 4 powers to allow the building of a passage into Steinstuecken.
> Steinstuecken once again became a beautiful greenspace to escape to and
> the border control was eliminated after 20 years.
>
> ----
>
> Can someone in Germany tape this, and perhaps we can somehow see it?
> (No illegal activities suggested or mentioned ;) )
>
> Cheers!
>
> Doug
>
>
> On Friday, October 8, 2004, at 08:35 AM, chris schulz wrote:
>
> >
http://www.rbb-online.de/_/fernsehen/teaser_jsp/key=teaser_1168088.html
> >
> > it will be on the 11.11.2004 at 01.10h (is this time a joke?)
> >
> > Regards, chris
> >
> >
> ---
> A bad day in television is still better than a good day in a cubicle.