"Guten Abend, meine Damen und Herren, zur Aktuellen Kamera. — Die Übersicht..." - Aktuelle Kamera's opening (English: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, it's Current Camera — The Headlines...) The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Aktuelle Kamera
Guten Abend, meine Damen und Herren, zur Aktuellen Kamera. — Die Übersicht...
Genre	News program
Running time	0:30 minutes (per episode)
Creator(s)	None
Starring	Herbert Köfer Klaus Feldmann Elisabeth Süncksen Hans-Dieter Lange Angelika Unterlauf Wolfgang Meyer Wolfgang Lippe Matthias Schliesing Renate Krawielicki Anne-Rose Neumann Peter Kessel Christel Kern Klaus Ackermann Heidrun Schulz
Country of origin	German Democratic Republic
Original channel	Fernsehen der DDR
Original run	December 21, 1952 – December 14, 1990
No. of episodes	over 12,000

Aktuelle Kamera (in English roughly translated as Current Camera) was the state television newscast of the former German Democratic Republic (German: Deutscher Fernsehfunk, known as "Fernsehen der DDR" between February 11, 1972 and March 14, 1990). On air from December 21, 1952 (daily broadcasts were not until October 11, 1957, however) to December 14, 1990, Aktuelle Kamera was one of the main propaganda tools of the East German government. Image File history File links Aktuelle_Kamera. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... GDR redirects here. ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... GDR redirects here. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... For the Lebanese political coalition, see March 14 Alliance. ... 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Australian anti-conscription propaganda poster from World War One Propaganda is a type of message aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of people. ...

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Editorial line

Aktuelle Kamera's coverage of the SED Tenth Congress in 1981.

The newsroom of Aktuelle Kamera was directly linked to the Politbüro of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany's Central Committee. Most of the programme's reports consisted of stories which applauded socialism and darkened the image of the West, in a country that was thirsty for anything from the other side of the Berlin Wall. Coverage of socialist countries was always positive, and journalists did not have the right to criticize the East German regime. Negative news was almost always censored. Image File history File links DDR-F-AKParteitag-1980s. ... Image File history File links DDR-F-AKParteitag-1980s. ... The logo of the SED The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) (German: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) was the governing party of East Germany from its formation in 1949 until the elections of 1990. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ... The logo of the SED The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) (German: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) was the governing party of East Germany from its formation in 1949 until the elections of 1990. ... Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ... The term Western World or the West can have multiple meanings depending on its context. ... East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961. ...

Schedule

Aktuelle Kamera's main edition was originally scheduled at 20:00 before being moved to 19:30 in the 1960s, so as not to coincide with the major West German newscasts, ZDF's "heute" at 19:00 and the ARD's tagesschau at 20:00, both of which were widely watched in East Germany. The broadcast lasted 20 minutes until 1972 when it was expanded to a full half-hour. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... West Germany was the informal but almost universally used name for the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 until 1990, during which years the Federal Republic did not yet include East Germany. ... Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Second German Television), ZDF, is a public service German television channel based in Mainz. ... Current logo The Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Cooperative association of public-law broadcasting institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany), or simply ARD, is a joint organization of Germanys regional public broadcasting agencies. ... Tagesschau (View of the Day) is the title of a television news programme broadcast on several German-language television stations. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing Note: broadcasting is also a term for hand sowing. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Aktuelle Kamera newscast showed on Rembrandt's tv-sets made on GDR in 1950s-1960s.

Starting in the mid-1970s, another 30-minute edition was presented on DDR2 (launched in 1969) around 21:30. Prior to that, both channels aired Aktuelle Kamera simultaneously at 19:30. AK 19:30 was also entirely repeated the next morning when DDR1 opened around 9:30 (later 8:30), before airing school-oriented programming. Image File history File links AktuelleKamera-1960s. ... Image File history File links AktuelleKamera-1960s. ... Television redirects here. ... Disambiguation Page Global Depositary Receipt East Germany ... // Recovering from World War II and its aftermath, the economic miracle emerged in West Germany and Italy. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Year 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...

News summaries were added as the transmissions increased during the day. There was a bulletin at the end of the morning programmes (i.e between 12:00 and 13:00) and another at 17:00 on the first channel. DDR2's evening schedule always began with the news at 18:45 (later 17:45 and 18:55). Late newscasts did not appear until the 1970s, when DDR1 screened a headline update following magazines around 22:00. From the 1980s, Aktuelle Kamera's final round-up was the last programme at the end of the day.

Popularity

Wolfgang Meyer hosting Aktuelle Kamera newsdesk in late 1970s.

In fact, television audiences largely ignored Aktuelle Kamera, as West German television was preferred (accounting for 10-15% of actual viewing). The East German authorities were well-aware of this, and went as far as adopting the French color standard SECAM rather than the PAL encoding used in the Federal Republic of Germany. This move did not hinder reception of West German TV as such, as the basic television standard remained the same. It did however prevent reception in colour by native East German TV sets. However, the majority of East German sets could not normally display in colour. Image File history File links DDR-F-AKMeyer01-2. ... Image File history File links DDR-F-AKMeyer01-2. ... Theatrical scenery is designed by a set designer, in collaboration with the director of the production. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... West Germany was the informal but almost universally used name for the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 until 1990, during which years the Federal Republic did not yet include East Germany. ... SECAM, also written SÉCAM (Séquentiel couleur à mémoire, French for sequential color with memory), is an analog color television system first used in France. ... Television encoding systems by nation PAL, short for phase-alternating line, phase alternation by line or phase alternation line, is a colour encoding system used in broadcast television systems in large parts of the world. ... There are several broadcast television systems in use in the world today. ...

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Coverage during the last days of GDR

Almost a month before the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Aktuelle Kamera loosened its fidelity to the party line and began presenting fair reports about the events transforming East Germany at the time. On October 16, 1989, it showed its first pictures of the massive opposition rallies taking place every Monday in Leipzig. East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... [] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the Federal State (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ...

Elisabeth Süncksen announcing the weather in Eastern Germany on Aktuelle Kamera in 1980s.

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Program's fate after GDR

Following the end of the GDR, the many editions of Aktuelle Kamera were rebranded according to the period of the day they aired. The 12:50 newscast was from then known as AK am Mittag ("AK at Midday"), the main broadcast of 19:30 Aktuelle Kamera am Abend ("Aktuelle Kamera Evening") and the news on DDR2 AK-Zwo. News summaries received the generic name of AK-Nachrichten (simply "AK-News") or AK-Kurznachrichten.

The last newscast under the name Aktuelle Kamera was presented by Petra Kusch-Lück on December 14, 1990 at 1:00 on DFF1 (ex-DDR1). From the next day and until December 31, 1991, DFF news was re-titled Aktuell. East German television was restricted to one channel, after DFF1 was shut down to transmit Das Erste. On January 1, 1992, the former DDR2 was regionalised and incorporated into the ARD as the regional channel ("Dritte Programme") for the "New Länder" under the names of MDR-Fernsehen (Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen), ORB-Fernsehen (Brandenburg, later merged with Sender Freies Berlin to form Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg) and N3 (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The principal German public national TV channel. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Current logo ARD (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – the Consortium of public-law broadcasting institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany), is a joint organization of Germanys regional public broadcasting agencies. ... Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (singular Land). ... The factual accuracy of this article needs to be verified. ... With an area of 18,400 sq. ... With an area of 20,447 km² and a population of 2. ... The Free State of Thuringia (German: Freistaat Thüringen) lies in central Germany and is among the smaller of the countrys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), with an area of 16,200 km² and 2. ...   (Lower Sorbian: Bramborska; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska) is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ... Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) was the public radio and television service for West Berlin from 1 June 1954 until 30 April 2003. ... Map of the nine regional broadcasting members of Germanys ARD radio/TV network. ... Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (German: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a Bundesland (federal state) in northern Germany. ...

In popular culture

The 2003 film Good Bye Lenin!, about a woman who falls into a coma before the Berlin Wall comes down and does not emerge until several months hence, features Aktuelle Kamera as a plot point. The film deals with how her children create a "DDR in her bedroom", doing such things as putting food in old jars, wearing old clothes--and showing AK tapes heavily. One of the first things protagonist Alex's friend Denis does is get tapes of old East German shows: "about 30 Aktuelle Kamera, 11 Der schwarze Kanal, six of that variety show you mentioned, and three or four of Everyday Life in the West." When Alex said that his mother would notice that the news was old, his friend replied that "they're all the same old crap, anyway." Denis, an amateur filmmaker, even goes as far to produce fake newscasts that say that West Germans were streaming into the DDR to avoid neo-Nazi groups and unemployment, not the other way round. Good bye, Lenin! is a German tragicomedy film, released internationally in 2003. ... Der schwarze Kanal (English: The Black Channel) was an East German television service made up of bowdlerized programmes from the FRG with pro-Communist commentary. ... Ein Kessel Buntes (A Kettle of Color) was a television variety show in the former East Germany. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ...

Hosts

Aktuelle Kamera's principal presenters, 1952–1990: 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Herbert Köfer
• Klaus Feldmann
• Elisabeth Süncksen
• Hans-Dieter Lange
• Angelika Unterlauf
• Wolfgang Meyer
• Wolfgang Lippe
• Matthias Schliesing
• Renate Krawielicki
• Anne-Rose Neumann
• Peter Kessel
• Christel Kern
• Klaus Ackermann
• Heidrun Schulz

References

• http://www.ddr-tv.de.vu
• http://www.mdr.de/damals-in-der-ddr/lexikon/1516374-hintergrund-1601149.html