There was not only the black channel
Glimpses from 39 Adlershof television years
Lutz Jahoda, the well-known singer, actor, presenter, and chairman of the Paul-Nipkow-Teleclub e.V., opened the exhibition on February 1 in the museum’s gallery space.
The exhibition was organized by the Paul-Nipkow-Teleclub e.V. Berlin. The club members lovingly assembled documents from their daily work and recalled television dramas, entertainment series, and journalistic programs with photo panels and posters. Costumes evoked memories of popular artists and presenters. Youth programs were brought back to life, and children’s television charmed visitors with set models from Sandmännchen.
The Chemnitz Museum of Industry used two anniversaries as an occasion to present the exhibition:
Forty years ago, citizens of the GDR were able to watch programs in color for the first time and simultaneously receive the Second Program.
And: 125 years ago, on January 6, 1884, the young inventor Paul Nipkow received the patent for an electric telescope, from which the television would later develop. Since 1994, the Paul-Nipkow-named association has been dedicated to the history of GDR television, run by former employees of the GDR broadcasting service.
The history of GDR television, which broadcast primarily from Berlin-Adlershof but also from the Kulturpalast in Karl-Marx-Stadt between 1952 and 1991, was brought back to memory.
The chairman of the Paul-Nipkow-Teleclub, Lutz Jahoda, is likely remembered by many older residents of Chemnitz as the host of the series Mit Lutz und Liebe, recorded in the Kulturpalast Karl-Marx-Stadt studio. The opening program was presented by Lutz Jahoda together with Edgar Pfeil, the voice of Papagei Amadeus, and Sonja Schmidt-Hilscher, whose hit Ein himmelblauer Trabant is still remembered by many.