Register of the Heinrich Bortfeldt Interviews
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Title: Heinrich Bortfeldt interviews
Date (inclusive): 2001-2006
Collection Number: 2002C60
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
German
Physical Description:
3 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes
(2.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Sound recordings and transcripts of interviews of leaders of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands and of the Partei
des Demokratischen Sozialismus, and of other German political and cultural figures, relating to political conditions in East
Germany and in reunified Germany.
Creator:
Bortfeldt, Heinrich
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2002.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Heinrich Bortfeldt interviews, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Heinrich Bortfeldt Collection consists of several series of oral history interviews conducted by Bortfeldt, a German historian,
between 2001 and 2006. These interviews were a follow-up to an earlier series of interviews conducted in the former East Germany
during the period of transition following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and German reunification in 1990. These earlier
interviews, in which Bortfeldt and a number of others participated, can be found in the GDR Oral History Collection in the
Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The oral history interviews are available as sound recordings on audio cassette tapes.
For the latter interviews that are represented in this collection, Bortfeldt initially sought to interview leading East German
political and governmental figures, such as Egon Krenz, Hans Modrow, Lothar de Maizière and Herbert Häber, as well as West
German business and political leaders whose work brought them into contact with East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, such
as Edzard Reuter, Lothar Späth, Kurt Biedenkopf and Björn Engholm. The last major series of interviews in this collection
focused on intellectual and artistic figures from the former East Germany, who reflected on their experiences in that country,
including the novelist Christoph Hein, the artist Walter Womacka, screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase, theatrical producer Manfred
Wekwerth, and actress Gisela May, among others. In addition, a handful of subsequent interviews were conducted with former
East German governmental leaders, including the chief of the foreign espionage division of the Ministry of State Security
(Stasi), Markus Wolf.
With a few exceptions, transcripts were provided by Bortfeldt for all of the recorded interviews. The first series in this
finding aid, the transcripts, is arranged by chronologically-grouped subseries, according to when the interviews were conducted,
and then alphabetically within each subseries.
Related Materials
GDR Oral History Project interviews, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Communism -- Germany
Socialism -- Germany
Germany (East) -- Politics and government
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1990-
Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands
Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (Germany)
Transcripts Group 1
2001-2002
box 1, folder 2
Lothar Bisky
2001 December 12
box 1, folder 3
Peter-Michael Diestel
2001 December 17
box 1, folder 4
Werner Eberlein
2001 October 23
box 1, folder 5
Rainer Eppelmann
2002 March 22
box 1, folder 6
Herbert Häber
2001 October 30
box 1, folder 7
Egon Krenz
2001 November 15
box 1, folder 8
Horst Grunert
2002 March 4
box 1, folder 9
Lothar de Maizière
2001 December 17
box 1, folder 10
Joachim Misselwitz
2002 January 28
box 1, folder 11
Hans Modrow
2001 November 22
box 1, folder 12
Hans Modrow
2001 November 22
box 1, folder 13
Gustav Adolf Schur
2002 February 12
box 1, folder 14
Gabriele Zimmer
2002 January 15
box 1, folder 15
Gabriele Zimmer
2002 January 15
Transcripts Group 2
2002-2003
box 1, folder 16
Jürgen Aretz
2003 January 23
box 1, folder 17
Kurt Biedenkopf
2003 January 15
box 1, folder 18
Hans-Otto Bräutigam
2002 November 5
box 1, folder 19
Erhard Eppler
2002 June 12
box 1, folder 20
Herbert Häber
2003 February 24
box 1, folder 21
Edzard Reuter
2003 May 15
box 1, folder 22
Lothar Späth
2003 April 16
box 1, folder 23
Karsten Voigt
2003 February 17
Transcripts Group 3
2003-2005
box 2, folder 1
Christine Bergmann
2003 October 23
box 2, folder 2
Björn Engholm
2003 November 22
box 2, folder 3
Erich Hahn
2003 November 6
box 2, folder 4
Reinhard Höppner
2004 April 14
box 2, folder 5
Franz Jahsnowsky
2003 January 20
box 2, folder 6
Gisela May
2004 January 16
box 2, folder 7
Rolf Schwanitz
2003 October 29
box 2, folder 8
Hans Jochen Vogel
2003 October 24
box 2, folder 9
Axel Weisener
2003 March 24
Transcripts Group 4
2003-2006
box 2, folder 10
Theo Adam
2004 September 10
box 2, folder 11
Bruno Flierl
2006 October 30
box 2, folder 12
Victor Grossman
2004 September 2
box 2, folder 14
Heidrun Hegewald
2005 January 10
box 2, folder 15
Christoph Hein
2006 June 14
box 2, folder 16
Bernhard Heisig and Gudrun Brüne
2005 November 18
box 2, folder 17
Klaus Höpke
2004 September 16
box 2, folder 18
Winfried Junge
2006 April 26
box 2, folder 19
Jo Jastram
2005 November 11
box 2, folder 20
Hermann Kant
2004 September 24
box 2, folder 21
Walter Kaufmann
2005 February 2
box 2, folder 22
Wolfgang Kohlhaase
2005 March 23
box 3, folder 1
Erich Loest
2006 March 29
box 3, folder 2
Erik Neutsch
2004 November 10
box 3, folder 3
Gisela Oechelhäuser
2005 October 26
box 3, folder 4
Klaus Renft
2005 March 22
box 3, folder 5
Helmut Sakowski
2004 November 24
box 3, folder 6
Landolf Scherzer
2005 December 10
box 3, folder 7
Frank Schöbel
2005 November 16
box 3, folder 8
Peter Schreir
2005 April 22
box 3, folder 9
Willi Sitte
2004 November 9
box 3, folder 10
Peter Sodann
2006 February 28
box 3, folder 12
Barbara Thalheim
2005 October 5
box 3, folder 13
Jutta Wachowiak
2005 May 11
box 3, folder 14
Manfred Wekwerth
2004 August 30
box 3, folder 15
Walter Womacka
2004 November 16
Transcripts Group 5
2004-2006
box 3, folder 16
Gerhard Beil
2006 March 29
box 3, folder 17
Herbert Häber
2004 November 17
box 3, folder 18
Heinz Kessler
2005 January 5
box 3, folder 19
Jörg Schönbohm
2006 March 30
box 3, folder 20
Manfred Stolpe
2006 October 20
box 3, folder 22
Markus Wolf
2004 December 14
box 3, folder 24
Friedrich Wolff
2005 July 18
box 4
Theo Adam
2004 September 10
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013332
box 4
Jürgen Aretz
2003 January 23
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013333
box 4
Egon Bahr
2002 June 3
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013339
box 4
Gerhard Beil
2006 March 29
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013340
box 4
Christine Bergmann
2003 October 23
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013344
box 4
Kurt Biedenkopf
2003 January 15
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013345
box 4
Lothar Bisky
2001 December 12
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013346
box 4
Hans-Otto Bräutigam
2002 November 5
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013354
box 4
Gudrun Brüne and Bernhard Heisig
2005 November 18
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013355
box 4
Peter-Michael Diestel
2001 December 17
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013364
box 4
Werner Eberlein
2001 October 23
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013365
box 4
Björn Engholm
2003 November 22
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013370
box 4
Rainer Eppelmann
2002 March 22
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013371
box 4
Erhard Eppler
2003 June 12
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013377
box 4
Bruno Flierl
2006 October 30
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013378
box 4
Günther Gaus
2002 June 5
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013379
box 4
Victor Grossman
2004 September 2
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013382
box 4
Horst Grunert
2002 March 4
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013388
box 4
Birgid Gysi
2006 March 2
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013389
box 4
Herbert Häber
2001 October 30
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013402
box 4
Herbert Häber
2003 February 24
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013403
box 4
Herbert Häber
2004 November 17
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013408
box 4
Erich Hahn
2003 November 6
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013409
box 4
Christoph Hein
2006 June 14
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013418
box 4
Klaus Höpke
2004 September 16
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013419
box 4
Reinhard Höppner
2004 April 14
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013434
box 4
Franz Jahsnowsky
2003 January 20
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013450
box 4
Jo Jastram
2005 November 11
Scope and Contents note
Cassette 1 of 2
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013461
box 5
Jo Jastram
2005 November 11
Scope and Contents note
Cassette 2 of 2
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013461
box 5
Winfried Junge
2006 April 26
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013474
box 5
Hermann Kant
2004 September 24
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013548
box 5
Walter Kaufmann
2005 February 2
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013560
box 5
Heinz Kepler
2005 January 5
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013625
box 5
Walther Kieb
2002 September 3
Access
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0013626
box 5
Wolfgang Kohlhaase
2005 March 23
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Egon Krenz
2001 November 15
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Erich Loest
2006 March 29
box 5
Lothar de Maizière
2001 December 17
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Gisela May
2004 January 16
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Joachim Misselwitz
2002 January 28
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Hans Modrow
2001 November 22
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Edgar Most
2003 January 8
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Erik Neutsch
2004 November 10
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Gisela Oechelhäuser
2005 October 26
box 5
R. Riebig
2002 October 7
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Klaus Renft
2005 March 22
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Edzard Reuter
2003 May 15
box 5
Helmut Sakowski
2004 November 24
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Landolf Scherzer
2005 December 10
box 5
Frank Schöbel
2005 November 16
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Jörg Schönbohm
2006 March 30
box 5
Peter Schreier
2005 April 22
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 5
Gustav Adolf Schur
2002 February 12
box 5
Rolf Schwanitz
2003 October 29
box 5
Willi Sitte
2004 November 9
box 6
Peter Sodann
2006 February 28
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 6
Lothar Späth
2003 April 16
box 6
Manfred Stolpe
2006 October 20
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 6
Barbara Thalheim
2005 October 5
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 6
Bernhard Vogel
2003 February 14
box 6
Hans Jochen Vogel
2003 October 24
box 6
Karsten Voigt
2003 February 17
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 6
Richard von Weizsäcker
2002 June 18
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 6
Manfred Wekwerth
2004 August 30
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 6
Axel Weisener
2003 March 24
box 6
Markus Wolf
2004 December 14
Conditions Governing Access note
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0000557
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 6
Markus Wolf
2005 March 1
Conditions Governing Access note
Use copy reference number: 2002c60_a_0000556
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 6
Friedrich Wolff
2005 July 18
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 6
Walter Womacka
2004 November 16
Scope and Contents note
2 cassettes
box 6
Gabriele Zimmer
2002 January 15
