WAktuelle Kamera was the flagship television newscast of Deutscher Fernsehfunk, the state television broadcaster of the German Democratic Republic (DDR). On air from 21 December 1952 to 14 December 1990, Aktuelle Kamera was one of the main propaganda tools of the East German government.
WArchiv des Todes is a 1980 13-part East German war television film series set during World War II.
WBlaulicht is an East German crime television drama series, whose 29 episodes were based on crime case files.
WClown Ferdinand is a fictional character from a number of Czechoslovak and later East German children TV series and films, played by actor Jiří Vršťala. The character was created by screenwriter Ota Hofman and film director Jindřich Polák.
WDeutscher Fernsehfunk was the state television broadcaster in the German Democratic Republic from 1952 to 1991.
WDrei reizende Schwestern is an East German television series.
WEastern Bloc media and propaganda was controlled directly by each country's Communist party, which controlled the state media, censorship and propaganda organs. State and party ownership of print, television and radio media served as an important manner in which to control information and society in light of Eastern Bloc leaderships viewing even marginal groups of opposition intellectuals as a potential threat to the bases underlying Communist power therein.
WFamilie Neumann is an East German television series originally broadcast in 1984.
WFeuerdrachen was an Eastern German television espionage series produced by the DEFA.
WFlax und Krümel was an East German television series for children, broadcast between 1955 and 1970.
WFront ohne Gnade is an East German television series.
WDas große Abenteuer des Kaspar Schmeck is an East German television film in three parts about Hessian mercenaries based on a novel by Grete Weishaupt.
WJeder stirbt für sich allein (1970) is a German television miniseries produced by DEFA in the former German Democratic Republic. The story was adapted from the 1947 Hans Fallada novel, Every Man Dies Alone, known in the UK as Alone in Berlin. It was directed by Hans-Joachim Kasprzik and starred Erwin Geschonneck.
WPittiplatsch, also known as Pitti for short, is a German fictional kobold character who was very famous in East Germany, especially as a puppet character on children's television. He first appeared in 1962 in the television series Meister Nadelöhr erzählt, later renamed Zu Besuch im Märchenland. The character was co-created by the writers Ingeborg Feustel and Günther Feustel, the sculptor Emma-Maria Lange, and the puppeteer Heinz Schröder. The Pittiplatsch hand puppet was puppeteered and voiced by Heinz Schröder until his unexpected death in April 2009. Norbert Schwarz succeed Schröder as Pittiplatsch's puppeteer in 2009. In May 2010, it was reported that Christian Sengewald took over the role.
WPolizeiruf 110 is a long-running German-language detective television series likened to poirot. The name links to the emergency telephone number of the Volkspolizei. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and after the dissolution of Deutscher Fernsehfunk the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
WRentner haben niemals Zeit is an East German television series.
WRottenknechte is a 1971 East German five-part television film directed by Frank Beyer. The first part premiered on 8 January 1971 on the East German public channel DFF1, with the other four parts being shown in the same month. The film concentrates on the last days of the German navy during World War II.
WUnser Sandmännchen, Das Sandmännchen, Abendgruß, Sandmann, Sandmännchen is a German children's bedtime television programme using stop motion animation. The puppet was based on the Ole Lukøje character by Hans Christian Andersen.
WDer schwarze Kanal was a series of political propaganda programmes broadcast weekly between 1960 and 1989 by East German television Deutscher Fernsehfunk. Each edition was made up of recorded extracts from recent West German television programmes re-edited to include a Communist commentary.
WStülpner-Legende is an East German television series.
WDas unsichtbare Visier was an East German television series, broadcast between 1973 and 1979. In its first and longest season it starred Armin Mueller-Stahl in the role of Werner Bredebusch, a Stasi agent active abroad under the alias Achim Detjen.
WWays across the Country is a 1968 East German television miniseries, directed by Martin Ackermann.
WZahn um Zahn – Die Praktiken des Dr. Wittkugel is an East German television series broadcast between 1985 and 1988. It stars Alfred Struwe as the Berlin-based dentist Dr. Alexander Wittkugel and Helga Piur as his receptionist Victoria "Häppchen" Happmeyer.
WZur See is a 9-part television series, produced by the GDR television from 1974 to 1976. It covers the journey of the German Sea Seafarers' Training and Freightship, J. G. Fichte from Rostock to Havana. Many prominent actors of the GDR had been committed to this series for the main roles. Horst Drinda, Günter Naumann, Günter Schubert and Erik S. Klein were among the most popular actors of their time. The series became one of the most successful and most-watched productions on the GDR television.