Comments on: “Gisela, Frisco, Bunbury”: Rediscovering “Heiteres Musiktheater” From The DDR http://operetta-research-center.org/gisela-frisco-bunbury-rediscovering-heiteres-musiktheater-ddr/ The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Bob http://operetta-research-center.org/gisela-frisco-bunbury-rediscovering-heiteres-musiktheater-ddr/#comment-8097 Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:26:12 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=19014#comment-8097 For an example of how difficult it was to get hold of foreign currency, one of the most popular series of films in the DDR was the Danish Olsenbande series. On one particular occasion (I forget which) East German TV wanted to invite the stars to be part of a special programme they were putting together. Payment in cash was totally out of the question, so instead negotiations came down to how many cans of caviar they were prepared to accept.

MDR does a good job in keeping alive a lot of East German culture. I’ve seen an interview with Chris Doerk where she bemoaned the fact that the only thing most interviews with her wanted to talk about was the Stasi, so I can understand why Natschinski wanted to keep out of that.

Here’s a direct link to the programme on the web. I hope it’s not personalised or time limited https://www.mdr.de/kultur/radio/ipg/sendung-547004_date-2020-04-11_days-true_ipgctx-true_zc-daabe4d7.html

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