Man wins Cold War radio competition, 44 years on
Man wins Cold War radio competition, 44 years on
An East German teenager who was listening illicitly to a West German radio station and sent a postcard across the Iron Curtain to try to win a record will receive the prize on Tuesday, 44 years later.
Günter Zettl was still at school in 1969 when he decided to enter the write-in competition being staged by the West German Saarlandische Rundfunk radio station.
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Zettl eventually left East Germany for the West, and in 2010 decided to look at his Stasi file. His aim was to learn more about why he was forbidden to work as a teacher in the East - a ban which led to his leaving.
But he was stunned to find, among the papers the Stasi held on him, a photocopy of his radio competition postcard.
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"I sent it, 44 years later, to the Saarländische Rundfunk."
Even though the "Hallo Twen" show was cancelled 40 years ago, the radio staff hunted down a copy of the prize record, and will present it to Zettl.
http://www.thelocal.de/20140113/east-german-wins-cold-war-era-radio-competition
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