Dieter Buhl was s a German journalist who worked for more than three decades as a member and department head of the political editorial department of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit.
Window to the West: How Television from the Federal Republic Influenced Events in East Germany
A paper by Dieter Buhl, spring 1990 fellow, examines how television from West Germany influenced political developments in East Germany in the 1980s. Buhl’s study suggests that television functioned on at least two levels leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall: it educated people, feeding information from the West into millions of East