Donnerstag-Gespräch: Viewers ask, politicians respond, December 28, 1989

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December 28 1989
Duration: 51:52 min.
Broadcaster: Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF) - DRA

License: Not Creative Commons

“With Bernhard Büchel chairing the discussion, representatives of new political groups in the GDR respond to questions from viewers. / The subjects include the programs of the newly founded parties and of the citizens’ movements, the relations of the groups to one another, and the alliance against the SED-PDS, manifestations of right-wing extremism in the GDR, the coming together of the two German states and of Europe as a whole, and the economic reform (the compatibility of the efficiency of market economies and social and ecological goals). / Marianne Dörfler (spokeswoman of the Grüne Partei [Green Party]) discusses the Green Party’s program in the GDR, the economic reform, dissociation from Western consumer society, the redefinition of socialism, the call for a social order based on grassroots democracy and ecology, the rejection of reunification. / Steffen Reiche (spokesman of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands [SDP; Social Democratic Party of Germany]) speaks of the SPD’s political program in the GDR, the call for a rapid process of reunification in Germany, ecological and social reform of the economy, the separation of state and society, coming to terms with the past as a basis for eliminating neo-fascism in the GDR, the electoral alliance of SED/PDS. / Konrad Weiß (representation of the organization Demokratie jetzt [Democracy Now]) discusses the political program of the organization Demokratie jetzt, the founding of the organization, the advantages of the organization over a party, the development of models of grassroots democracy, the economic and ecological program, the measures of the parties and organizations to counter the rising neo-fascist violence in the GDR, a reform alliance with Eastern European states, and a demilitarized, united Germany with regard to the question of reunification. / Erhart Neubert (representative of the party Demokratischer Aufbruch [Democratic Awakening]) speaks about the political program of the party Demokratischer Aufbruch, the social and ecological crisis in the GDR, the task of democratization, the elimination of neo-fascism through educating the society and the security aspect, on the electoral alliance of SED/PDS, the endorsement of state unity, and the recognition of the existing Oder-Neisse border. / Joachim Gauck (minister, spokesman of the citizens’ movement Neues Forum [New Forum] ) discusses the political program of the citizens’ movement Neues Forum, the definition of democratic socialism, the critique of rising neo-fascism in the GDR, the endorsement of Germany’s reunification.” (Source: DRA)