No medium shaped the enforcement of the National Socialist dictatorship as rapidly and profoundly as the radio. Immediately after seizing power in 1933, Adolf Hitler and his Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels recognized the immense potential…
“When a society stops talking to each other, civil war follows.” — Charlie Kirk (1993–2025) Exactly one year ago today, a political assassination sent shockwaves through the Western world: Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old American activist…
In the German Democratic Republic (GDR), broadcasting—comprising state radio and GDR television—was never designed as an independent Fourth Estate. In line with the Marxist-Leninist understanding of media, the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) viewed journalism…
The cases of Sieglinde Baumert and Georg Thiel have made legal history. They demonstrate the lengths to which the German state will go to enforce the financing of public service broadcasting (ÖRR). However, in 2026,…