Cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, through attempts to dictate the way people spent their free time, prohibiting privately organized leisure time pursuits and instead offering cultural activities in state institutions and organizations. However, people s cultural life in the GDR developed a dynamic of its own. It was determined by their own interests and by the input of cultural functionaries, who often aimed to satisfy popular demands, even if they were at odds with the SED s cultural policy. Gradually, these developments even affected SED cultural policy, which became less focused on educationalist goals in the 1960s but increasingly oriented itself on popular interests instead.
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Esther von Richthofen grew up in Bonn, London and Brussels. For her undergraduate degree, she read Modern History at Oxford University. She did her M.A. and PhD at UCL and specialized in the history of the German Democratic Republic. She is currently employed as the personal assistant of the president of the Humboldt University in Berlin.
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