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Deutscher Fernsehfunk was the state television broadcaster in the German Democratic Republic from 1952 to 1991.
Televisions on display in Leipzig, tuned to DFF (1968)
A 1980 test pattern, broadcast on the renamed DDR-F1
The "Fernseh-Lieblinge" (Television Favorites) were the most popular actors on East German television. These are 1987's prizewinners.
Gerhard Behrendt with Sandmännchen
Sandmännchen
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Unser Sandmännchen, Das Sandmännchen, Der Abendgruß, Abendgruß, Der Sandmann, Sandmann, Sandmännchen is a German children's bedtime television program using stop-motion animation. The puppet was based
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…producers stated that the East's adaptations of Bertolt Brecht or Thomas Mann were better than their own, and most West Berliners preferred the East's Sandmännchen to their own. Easterners learned of consumer goods from commercials on western television that they asked visitors to bring. Aktuelle Kamera: The main…
VHS cover for the East German version of Sandmännchen
Unser Sandmännchen in the Palace of the Republic
Unser Sandmännchen in a hot air balloon
The West German version of Sandmännchen did not last as long as the East German version that today's German children know as the only one.