November 9, 2024 — 35 years after the fall of the Wall. Listen to the interview with Mischa Blok on Radio 1 about the podcast “Over de Muur”: Ulrike Nagel looks back on her childhood in the GDR from today’s perspective and wonders how much of the GDR is still inside her.
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I come from a country that no longer exists. The Berlin Wall fell 35 years ago, on November 9, 1989. I grew up on the eastern side of it, but I’ve now been living in the Netherlands for half my life.
In the podcast “Over de Muur,” I look back. What memories do I still have? And how do my elementary school classmates look back on this? But the Netherlands also played an important role in the Cold War and maintained (trade) relations with the GDR. How did my new homeland view my old one back then?
Article in the VPRO Guide about the podcast series "Over de muur"
Journalist Ulrike Nagel, who grew up in East Berlin and now lives in the Netherlands, explores in the six-part podcast series “Over de muur” what the GDR era still means to people who grew up there as children.
VPRO Magazine published an article about Nagel and her podcast series, which can be read on the VPRO Guide website.
"When I Was 12" podcast by NPO Zapp / KRO-NCRV, the fall of the Wall
In the podcast series “When I Was 12,” Ulrike talks about life in the GDR and the fall of the Wall.
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