On-Air
Our interactive schedule for the week of June 2 to June 6
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Monday, June 2
A "Data Burst" from German journalist Stephan Richter reveals an odd or quirky fact about the German economy and society.
Feature: Caroline Wyatt reports on a popular pastime for Berlin's youth: Ost-algia (nostalgia for the Ost, or East) parties that celebrate the old days of Communist rule....a time when unemployment didn't exist and no one had to face difficult choices posed by capitalism.
PM:
Feature: Journalist Jeff Kamen spent 48 hours in Berlin last month and
kept his tape recorder rolling the whole time. The result: a portrait of
the city in sound.
Commentary: German author Thomas Kielinger explains why Berlin is a metaphor for a changing Germany.
Interview: David Brancaccio visits a typical middle-class family in
Berlin.
Data Burst: German journalist Stephan Richter reveals an odd or quirky fact about the German economy and society.
History Moment: How Berlin came to be a divided city at the end of the Second World War.
Tuesday, June 3
Data Burst: German journalist Stephan Richter reveals an odd or quirky fact about the German economy and society.
Feature: Peggy Salz-Trautman reports from Germany's current capital, Bonn, on why most Germans are not happy about the upcoming move of the capital to Berlin.
PM:
Feature: David Brancaccio asks whether Bundesbank president Hans Tietmeyer is really the Alan Greenspan of Europe.
Commentary: German author Peter Schneider, whose books include The Wall Jumper, describes the "wall in the head" that still separates East and West.
Data Burst: German journalist Stephan Richter reveals an odd or quirky fact about the German economy and society.
History Moment: The Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1947 changed its image for Americans from Hitler's capital to an oppressed ally.
Wednesday, June 4
Feature: George Lewinski has dinner at one of the old East zone's grandest restaurants, the Offenbach. Its proprietor says "Before the Wall fell I had plenty of customers but not enough food. Now I have plenty of food and not enough customers."
Data Burst: German journalist Stephan Richter reveals an odd or quirky fact about the German economy and society.
PM:
Feature: Caroline Wyatt visits the German film studio that made a star out of Marlene Dietrich and nurtured a generation of filmmakers who ended up in Hollywood. Now Babelsburg Studios is experiencing a renaissance.
Commentary: Journalist Guenther Ederer looks at the sad decline of the label "Made in Germany".
Feature: Mercedes and other German automakers are moving factories out of their pricey homeland and into the American South. A report from Alabama.
Data Burst: German journalist Stephan Richter reveals an odd or quirky fact about the German economy and society.
History Moment: After the Wall was built, Berliners yearned for years to see it torn down.
Thursday, June 5
Feature: George Lewinski visits the border between Poland and Germany. As Germans look to Central Europe as a source of cheap labor, the region becomes more and more like the US-Mexican border.
Data Burst: German journalist Stephan Richter reveals an odd or quirky fact about the German economy and society.
PM:
Feature: David Brancaccio talks to some Germans who remember the late forties, as Marshall Plan money began to reconstruct the economy.
Interview: David Brancaccio talks to Leonard Miall, retired BBC journalist whose coverage of George Marshall's speech was the first inkling that Britain had of the plan to rebuild Europe.
Commentary: Peter Grose of Harvard reflects on the astonishing success of the Marshall Plan.
Data Burst: German journalist Stephan Richter reveals an odd or quirky fact about the German economy and society.
History Moment: The Marshall Plan prevented a ravaged Europe from falling into anarchy.
Friday, June 6
Feature: Terry Martin reports on Berlin's continuing status as a Mecca for artists, both mainstream and avant-garde.
Data Burst: German journalist Stephan Richter reveals an odd or quirky fact about the German economy and society.
PM:
Feature: Comedian Gayle Tufts tells us what's so funny about German business
culture.
Feature: David Brancaccio visits one of Berlin's most popular
nightspots which features klezmer music and Yiddish theater.
Interview: David Brancaccio talks to a German tax accountant about how
his paycheck and spending habits would differ if he lived in Germany.
Commentary: Economist Norbert Walter explores the German paradox -- a
wealthy country that can't seem to find the formula for real economic health.
Data Burst: German journalist Stephan Richter reveals an odd or quirky fact about the German economy and society.
History Moment: A simple announcement from the East German government that citizens would now be permitted to travel, translated into the end of the Wall and of the Communist state.
