#volkspolizei

[postoctobrist]

[universallyarbiterinternet]

DDR Volkspolizei - Verkehrsposten mit Verkehrsstab, Berlin Mitte, Rathausstraße Kreuzung Spandauer Straße. (KI)

[aiiaiiiyo]

[tremolorecords]

This fabulous 1986 image by Jörg Knöfel shows an East Berlin punk and the Volkspolizei ignoring each other. The punk, Sven Marquardt, would go on to have his face tattooed and become the city's most famous bouncer at Berghain

[rrrick]

East Berlin punk and the Volkspolizei

[vintage1981]

Celebrating Ingrid Pitt

Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 1937 – 23 November 2010) was a Polish-British actress and writer best known for her work in horror films of the 1970s.

Ingoushka Petrov was born in Warsaw, Poland, one of two daughters of a father of German Jewish descent and a Polish Jewish mother. During World War II, she and her mother were imprisoned in Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo, Free City of Danzig (present-day Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) but escaped. In Berlin, in the 1950s, Ingoushka married an American soldier, Laud Roland Pitt Jr., and moved to California. After her marriage failed she returned to Europe, but after a small role in a film, she took the shortened stage name "Ingrid Pitt", keeping her former husband's surname, and headed to Hollywood, where she worked as a waitress while trying to make a career in films.

In the early 1960s, Pitt was a member of the prestigious Berliner Ensemble, under the guidance of Bertolt Brecht's widow Helene Weigel. In 1965, she made her film debut in Doctor Zhivago, playing a minor role. In 1968, she co-starred in the low-budget science-fiction film The Omegans, and in the same year, played British spy Heidi Schmidt in Where Eagles Dare opposite Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood.

Her work with Hammer Film Productions elevated her to cult figure status. She starred as Carmilla/Mircalla in The Vampire Lovers (1970), based on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla, and played the title role in Countess Dracula (1971), based on the legends about Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Pitt also appeared in the Amicus horror anthology film The House That Dripped Blood (1971) and had a small part in The Wicker Man (1973).

During the 1980s, Pitt returned to mainstream films and television. Her role as Fraulein Baum in the 1981 BBC Playhouse Unity, who is denounced as a Jew by Unity Mitford (Lesley-Anne Down), was uncomfortably close to her real-life experiences. Her popularity with horror film buffs had her in demand for guest appearances at horror conventions and film festivals. Other films in which Pitt has appeared outside the horror genre are: Who Dares Wins (1982) (or The Final Option), Wild Geese II (1985) and Hanna's War (1988). Generally cast as a villainess, her characters often died horribly at the end of the final reel. "Being the anti-hero is great – they are always roles you can get your teeth into."

In the 1980s she also reinvented herself as a writer. Her first book, after a number of ill-fated tracts on the plight of Native Americans, was the 1980 novel, Cuckoo Run, a spy story about mistaken identity. "I took it to Cubby Broccoli. It was about a woman called Nina Dalton who is pursued across South America in the mistaken belief that she is a spy. Cubby said it was a female Bond. He was being very kind."

In 1999, her autobiography, Life's a Scream (Heinemann) was published, and she was short-listed for the for her own reading of extracts from the audio book.

The autobiography detailed the harrowing experiences of her early life—in a Nazi concentration camp, her search through Europe in Red Cross refugee camps for her father, and her escape from East Berlin, one step ahead of the Volkspolizei. "I always had a big mouth and used to go on about the political schooling interrupting my quest for thespian glory. I used to think like that. Not good in a police state."

Pitt died in a south London hospital on 23 November 2010, a few days after collapsing, and two days after her 73rd birthday, from congestive heart failure.

Seven months before she died, Pitt finished narration for Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest (2011), an animated short film on her experience in the Holocaust, a project that had been in the works for five years. Character design and storyboards were created by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Bill Plympton. The film is directed by Kevin Sean Michaels; co-produced and co-written by Jud Newborn, Holocaust expert and author, "Sophie Scholl and the White Rose"; and drawn by 10-year-old animator, Perry Chen.

[gladioshocktrooper]

Officer of the East German Volkspolizei with a WWII German StG-44 assault rifle

[salantami]

Young girl barely managed to cross the border between East and West Berlin in 1955 This famous photo is shared all over the internet as supposedly being made during the cold war in Berlin on the border between east and west and showing West Berlin policemen and East German Volkspolizei face each other while a woman has just crossed from one side to the other.

[victusinveritas]

This fabulous 1986 image by Jörg Knöfel shows an East Berlin punk and the Volkspolizei ignoring each other. The punk—Sven Marquardt—would go on to have his face tattooed and become the city’s most famous bouncer at Berghain.

[punalippulaiva]

An East Berlin punk and the Volkspolizei ignoring each other in the U-Bahn. Photo by Jörg Knöfel.

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

This fabulous 1986 image by Jörg Knöfel shows an East Berlin punk and the Volkspolizei ignoring each other. The punk—Sven Marquardt—would go on to have his face tattooed and become the city’s most famous bouncer at Berghain.

[ddrmuseum]

Heute im Jahr 1951 wurde West-Staaken von der Volkspolizei der DDR besetzt. Besonders überraschend war diese drastisch klingende Entscheidung der DDR jedoch nicht, denn der westliche Teil des Ortsteils Staaken war im Zuge eines Gebietsaustauschs zwischen Großbritannien und der Sowjetunion bereits offiziell Teil der DDR. Trotzdem war er weiterhin vom Bezirk Spandau verwaltet worden. Wir zeigen euch hier die Flagge der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, die vom 1. Februar bis zur Wiedervereinigung über West-Staaken wehte. Today in 1951, West Staaken was occupied by the GDR's People's Police. This drastic-sounding decision by the GDR was not particularly surprising, however, because the western part of the district of Staaken was already officially part of the GDR in the course of a territorial exchange between Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, it continued to be administered by the district of Spandau. Here we show you the flag of the German Democratic Republic that flew over West Staaken from 1 February until reunification. #DDR #ddrgeschichte #ddrmuseum #museumsinsel #museum #ddrflagge #flagge #fahne #gdr #rda #spandau #berlin #staaken #volkspolizei — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/bame8Yj

[whatevergreen]

East German punk taking the U-Bahn next to an Volkspolizei officer, East Berlin, East Germany (1986)

[maximumtalewonderland]

Berlin is divided

Shortly after midnight on August 13, 1961, East German soldiers begin laying down barbed wire and bricks as a barrier between Soviet-controlled East Berlin and the democratic western section of the city.

After World War II, defeated Germany was divided into Soviet, American, British and French zones of occupation. The city of Berlin, though technically part of the Soviet zone, was also split, with the Soviets taking the eastern part of the city. After a massive Allied airlift in June 1948 foiled a Soviet attempt to blockade West Berlin, the eastern section was drawn even more tightly into the Soviet fold. Over the next 12 years, cut off from its western counterpart and basically reduced to a Soviet satellite, East Germany saw between 2.5 million and 3 million of its citizens head to West Germany in search of better opportunities. By 1961, some 1,000 East Germans—including many skilled laborers, professionals and intellectuals—were leaving every day.

In August, Walter Ulbricht, the Communist leader of East Germany, got the go-ahead from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to begin the sealing off of all access between East and West Berlin. Soldiers began the work over the night of August 12-13, laying more than 100 miles of barbed wire slightly inside the East Berlin border. The wire was soon replaced by a six-foot-high, 96-mile-long wall of concrete blocks, complete with guard towers, machine gun posts and searchlights. East German officers known as Volkspolizei (“Volpos”) patrolled the Berlin Wall day and night.

Many Berlin residents on that first morning found themselves suddenly cut off from friends or family members in the other half of the city. Led by their mayor, Willi Brandt, West Berliners demonstrated against the wall, as Brandt criticized Western democracies, particularly the United States, for failing to take a stand against it. President John F. Kennedy had earlier said publicly that the United States could only really help West Berliners and West Germans, and that any kind of action on behalf of East Germans would only result in failure.

The Berlin Wall was one of the most powerful and iconic symbols of the Cold War. In June 1963, Kennedy gave his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” (“I am a Berliner”) speech in front of the Wall, celebrating the city as a symbol of freedom and democracy in its resistance to tyranny and oppression. The height of the Wall was raised to 10 feet in 1970 in an effort to stop escape attempts, which at that time came almost daily. From 1961 to 1989, a total of 5,000 East Germans escaped; many more tried and failed. High profile shootings of some would-be defectors only intensified the Western world’s hatred of the Wall.

Finally, in the late 1980s, East Germany, fueled by the decline of the Soviet Union, began to implement a number of liberal reforms. On November 9, 1989, masses of East and West Germans alike gathered at the Berlin Wall and began to climb over and dismantle it. As this symbol of Cold War repression was destroyed, East and West Germany became one nation again, signing a formal treaty of unification on October 3, 1990.

[schorschidk]

Ende der Volkspolizei: Wie die Landespolizei MV entstand

1990 fiel der Startschuss für den Aufbau der fünf Länderpolizeien im Osten: ein harter Umbruch mit einer Entlassungswelle.

[frankyherzkleber]

1982 - Platz im Mittelpunkt der Welt

1982 hatte ich mit meinem Kumpel Rainer gehofft, das Udo Lindenberg in der DDR spielen würde. Auch wenn es illusorisch war. Im Intershop hatte ich Lindenbergs Album livehaftig (2 LPs) gekauft, für 60 Westmark = 180 Ostmark. Kurs 1:3  Später wurde sogar 1:7 getauscht. Ich konnte schon etwas auf der Gitarre und wollte Straßenmusik ausprobieren, was in der DDR verboten war. Ich habe es trotzdem Abseits am Freibad Pankow versucht, in der Nähe der damals neuen Schwimmhalle. Aber zu wenig Publikum kam vorbei. Deshalb zog es mich auf den Alexanderplatz, vor den Fernsehturm. Klassische instrumentale Stücke standen auf meiner Setliste. Frank G. und seine Freundin Jutta Bahlke lernte ich dort kennen. Wir freundeten uns an. Jutta konnte Klavier und spielte ein paar Jahre später in meiner 1. Band. Das die kleine DDR unter Realitätsverlust leidete, musste ich an besagtem Tag endgültig zur Kenntnis nehmen. Die Volkspolizei kam vorbei und forderte mich ultimativ auf, die Darbietung zu beenden, mit der Begründung: Das ich auf dem Platz im Mittelpunkt der Welt spielen würde. Wie hieß später meine 1. Band? Grüne Ohren? Die Kandidaten? Auf die Mütze?   1. Single-Release “Berliner Bär” am 12. Mai 2023 / 20:00 Uhr im Stream & YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikToc #Deutschrock #Rock #Berlin #Berliner Bär #Singer/Songwriter #Liedermacher #Tanzen #Frankys Herzkleber # HerzKleber   Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel