Wildwest nach der Wende
Dokumentation, D 2018
Originaltitel: Sex Shop DDR
Regie:
Lutz Rentner
Sex Shop DDR (1/2)
44 Min. UT
Sexshops, Pornokinos, Prostitution auf offener Straße - eine Sexwelle rollte in der Nachwendezeit über die untergehende DDR.
Die Dokumentation spürt den nackten Tatsachen nach, die das Sexgeschäft im Osten prägten.
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Dokumentation, D 2018
Originaltitel: Sex Shop DDR
Regie:
Lutz Rentner
Sex Shop DDR (1/2)
44 Min. UT
Sexshops, Pornokinos, Prostitution auf offener Straße - eine Sexwelle rollte in der Nachwendezeit über die untergehende DDR.
Die Dokumentation spürt den nackten Tatsachen nach, die das Sexgeschäft im Osten prägten.
#ddr #ddrarchiv #ddrfilme #ddrsendung #ddrserie #ddrdoku #deutschedemokratischerepublik #ddrmusik #ddrkinderfilm #ddrcomics #ddrkino #ddrfernsehen #ddrgeschichte #ostalgie #ostdeutschefilme #ostdeutschland #ossi #defa #defafilm #defadoku #deutschefilme #deutscherfilm #deutschland #deutschegeschichte #kommunismus #sozialismus #marxismusleninismus
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00:02Wild East. When the wall falls, so does the anti-pornographic bulwark.
00:10A wave of sexual activity swept into what was still East Germany. Lucrative business deals, adventurous times.
00:18Those were crazy times, especially when you think about how everything is regulated today.
00:25And what laws surely existed back then, which nobody here knew about yet.
00:29The Wild West that is currently taking hold here, in the form of a Wild East, is catastrophic.
00:37Prostitution now takes place on the open streets of East Germany. A lot of money is at stake.
00:43Red-light war in Saxony. Caravans burn, pimps die.
00:59Zero hour and a new beginning.
01:08East Germans definitely had some catching up to do.
01:11in relation to sex, but also in relation to eroticism in general, in relation to clothes, to sex toys.
01:20There was an enormous need to catch up.
01:24You could tell something was happening. Something was going on. It was definitely different than before.
01:31I didn't really have any problems with the morals. And I think especially the East Germans, well, that was generally the case.
01:41Moral.
01:43Nudism was a big deal, nudist beaches. Those were mostly German citizens who were a bit too uptight about wearing their trousers.
01:50But that wasn't really the case with us. And there were very few negative reactions.
01:57Of course, I always have a few people who say I ushered in the moral decline of the GDR.
02:03Of course, I had my opponents. But there weren't many. I didn't care.
02:09Beate Use was among the first to recognize the new market opportunities in the East.
02:14As early as December 1989, their messengers were supplying the entire GDR with free, colorful catalogs.
02:22An investment that should pay off soon. Few people have the capital here, but it will still be worthwhile.
02:32The situation is more difficult for East German citizens who want to use the new freedoms for their own sex business ideas.
02:40In January 1990, Jürgen Linsenbart from Artern in Thuringia applied for a business license for a video rental store.
02:47The beginning of a long odyssey. The officials are not yet familiar with the new business model.
02:54So he goes to the very top to find out if he is also allowed to lend out pornographic films.
03:01We really wanted to do this sex story. And it was all back in East German times.
03:09Yes, that shouldn't be forgotten. It was really complicated.
03:14And then I got someone on the phone, the then Minister of the Interior, I don't know his name. I'm sorry.
03:23And then he just started hemming and hawing because nobody had ever asked him that before.
03:30The responsible officials simply lack the experience. They want to help, but are not yet sufficiently trained to handle such complex issues.
03:39to be able to weigh the options and make a decision.
03:43It came out in the conversation that he said, "Yes, then do some kind of softcore video."
03:51-Eroticism.
03:53And then I said to him, I'm saying, yes, what exactly is soft erotica? Where does it begin?
03:58Where does it end?
04:00I mean, could you be more specific? And then you push him around like that.
04:05And then I said to him, I say, well, then tell me how far we've come.
04:10have it in it.
04:11Politicians have more pressing problems to discuss than the issue of pornography.
04:16The election campaign is already casting its shadow.
04:19The discussions at the round table focus on the really big problems, less on business matters.
04:26Like Jürgen Linsenbart's.
04:30While he patiently waits for the business license and an answer to his questions,
04:35Large companies like Beate Use from the West create facts quickly and without bureaucracy.
04:44The catalog is constantly being updated. Word of the new products spreads quickly.
04:50Business in the East is starting to pick up.
04:54But first, let's look in the west.
04:57East German citizens flock to the peep shows and erotic markets.
05:00An invasion of the cult sites of the West German sex industry is underway.
05:06With the welcome money, all the way to Hamburg's Reeperbahn and into the famous Herbertstrasse.
05:13And I also know someone who wanted to buy a washing machine here, but he never got around to it.
05:19So he left the money here. He drove off again without a washing machine.
05:24And I mean, I feel sorry about that, because we don't really know yet how they'll deal with it.
05:29should avoid it.
05:30And do I sometimes mean that? I don't know. Or maybe it's the novelty, and that's very appealing, and that's why they
05:37precisely where they are also willing to spend money.
05:39I have quite mixed feelings about this onslaught of East Germans with 100 marks in welcome money on West German sex shops and porn cinemas.
05:54Memory.
05:56Of course, the East Germans, and I fully included myself in that group, were very curious and took everything in naively and
06:07explored naively.
06:09Soon, East Germans will no longer have to travel for sex. Sex will now come to their homes.
06:17Before the first erotic shops opened in the East, Beate Use took over the supply of GDR citizens with the necessary items.
06:28lucrative business.
06:30We have received over 80,000 customer addresses from East Germany since January. That's an incredible number when you consider that...
06:40This happened without any current advertising from us.
06:44How do you explain that?
06:46I explain this simply by the fact that the area of love, sex and eroticism plays a significant role in everyone's life.
06:55This is an important factor.
06:57And that this field was subject to a strong taboo in the GDR and people could not live it out,
07:07these are their wishes.
07:08And now they see this and pounce on it.
07:14The adult entertainment industry in Flensburg is gaining momentum. Christmas business in 1989 is typical. The record year of 1990 will follow. Millions
07:26new customers are waiting.
07:32What I find quite interesting, however, is that the audience, that is, the customers, the East German customers, are quite different from the
07:41West German difference.
07:42So, there were significantly more women among the customer base, and the customer base was also younger, and there were also
07:49pornographic products have now been acquired, quite naturally.
07:53But also many other things. Sex toys, lingerie, contraceptives, lubricants. All those things that one might need for sexual pleasure within a partnership.
08:05needs.
08:07There was, of course, great curiosity and also a great need. And it seems that Beate Use was so... in the year of German reunification.
08:17It generated more revenue than ever before.
08:20She has opened up a completely new market.
08:23In early 1990, the next media bombshell dropped. Even the legendary men's magazine Playboy was pushing for a piece of the burgeoning Eastern European market.
08:34The January issue features the first Playmate from East Germany. Over 150 journalists crowd into the press conference.
08:41Anja Kossack, 21 years old, innocence and exoticism from Magdeburg. A dental assistant, unspoiled, naturally naked.
08:53A huge spectacle.
08:55That was insane. So I went down there for breakfast, totally relaxed, and then they were screwing and hammering.
09:01down there.
09:01I'm thinking, what are they doing there? Are they building a huge stage with my name on it in big letters?
09:06My heart sank a little. I thought, oh, this is going to be bad.
09:12This is a bigger deal.
09:13But Pleber's people were there, and Günther Geffre was there, and they said they stood by me.
09:18page and help.
09:19And I believe there were over 150 journalists present from all over Germany and East Germany.
09:26And yes, things got pretty intense then.
09:31The PR campaign seems to be working.
09:35Yes, I am a dental assistant in a children's facility, that's correct.
09:40And I also dance in a dance ensemble in Magdeburg.
09:46And I have good acquaintances in Magdeburg who might know me as a pop singer, Arnold Wenning, and I have some photos of him there.
09:54participated.
09:55And that's how I met Mr. Geffreu.
09:57I was standing in the background a bit, and then he introduced me to the glue.
10:03And that's how I got lucky enough to be chosen by the glue.
10:08The photo shoot is not easy for the woman from Magdeburg.
10:12Everything is new for her. Posing naked, three days of hard work with a shooting team.
10:19I believe that no pictures were taken at all on the first and second days.
10:24I wasn't so relaxed back then.
10:28I'd never done that before, so it was a first for me too.
10:33The hotel wasn't closed, either.
10:35The hotel continued to operate.
10:37I was standing naked in doorways everywhere, and then the elevator stopped working, and then a hotel guest was standing there.
10:43in front of me.
10:43That happened too.
10:45But it's not just the external circumstances that are difficult.
10:48Anja also has to find her way into a role.
10:51It's not simply about nude photos.
10:54Playboy has a special philosophy.
10:58The way they wanted me to be and the way they wanted to see me didn't quite correspond to how I see myself.
11:05And Günther Geffreu also had a bit of trouble with black and straps and gold and so on.
11:13That's not how he actually saw me, and that's not how he ever photographed me in the test shots beforehand.
11:19That wasn't really his style.
11:22But he's a professional and he simply made the best of the situation.
11:27However, it took a few days until we found the right person, the right thing for me.
11:36Anja is on everyone's lips. Suddenly she's also a welcome guest on talk shows.
11:42You are, Ms. Kossack, the first Playmate of the GDR.
11:46Yes.
11:46Is this an award for you or a curiosity?
11:50You're actually a dentist, help!
11:55Dental assistant, yes.
11:56Award or curiosity?
11:58Well, it is quite an honor.
12:01So it's definitely something special for me, yes.
12:04For me, what was special about it, given that we are in this time of upheaval, was that it looks so typically German.
12:09So we really needed something German.
12:12Could you tell me what is typically German?
12:14Blonde and sweet.
12:17Love too?
12:18Love too.
12:19How did you determine that?
12:20In facial expression.
12:22So, is it more East German or more German?
12:25German.
12:27German GDR.
12:28Or there and back.
12:30Something like that.
12:31Well, it was quite an adjustment to suddenly be in the public eye like that, but people get used to it.
12:38Everything, and at some point I only registered that when I saw a huge article in a major German daily newspaper.
12:48was inside.
12:49I just had to accept it.
12:51That's just how it was.
12:53It was sometimes a bit strange, of course, because we were eating our buttered bread at the doctor's office.
12:57During the break, my boss opens the newspaper and I'm basically standing there naked as the day I was born.
13:04It's just on paper, but you get used to it.
13:09Anja, who now lives in Bavaria, remains in her profession.
13:13No modeling career.
13:15On the sofa with daughter Linda, not without pride.
13:19You even signed it here.
13:21Yes.
13:22OK.
13:24And here is the profile.
13:26Yes, like that.
13:27This is a child's photo.
13:29Her family never had any problems with the exclusive nude photos.
13:33I don't remember anymore.
13:34In my mom.
13:36Exactly, and these are my measurements.
13:38Those are good measurements.
13:39Yes, the dimensions weren't bad.
13:41My goodness!
13:42I thought it was great.
13:44I always admired it and thought it was absolutely wonderful that she dared to do it.
13:50Because she was the same age as me back then, in 2015.
13:5525 years later, his daughter Linda will also pose nude for Playboy.
14:02The usual nude poses for the men's magazine, nothing more.
14:09A career in sex work or even pornography is out of the question for both of them.
14:15Unlike other women.
14:19Dolly Buster from Prague was already a superstar in the porn industry in 1990.
14:25In East Germany, she gained many fans within just a few weeks.
14:29Even without elaborate campaigns like those practiced by Playboy.
14:34Yes, I'm a bit at odds with Playboy, because Playboy, you'd think, would...
14:42It's about naked women and the idea that people can appreciate or support each other in some way.
14:49But that's not the case.
14:50Playboy actually held porn stars in high contempt because, of course, pornography was the thousandfold evolution of a Playboy.
15:01And that's why, I believe, we were and still are hated by Playboy.
15:07Of course, porn actresses aren't usually depicted, because it's obvious, everyone already knows them.
15:14She also attributes her rapid success to her origins in the East.
15:19The special mentality.
15:22A controversial thesis.
15:25The mentality of women from the East is truly, at least back then; today it will certainly be somewhat different again, but
15:33People were much freer back then than they are here.
15:37So, access to sexuality, access to one's own sexuality, the freedom to determine one's own sexuality and to
15:46Speaking was completely different and also very natural.
15:50And I would venture to say, and I don't think I'm wrong about this, that the women from the East
15:59were more emancipated.
16:01Significantly more emancipated, but taken for granted.
16:04Not as an emancipation they forced upon themselves and clung to,
16:10but as self-evident and normal, and living a normal life.
16:15Dolly Braster's films were also available in the video stores that opened in East Germany in early 1990.
16:23A topic that even the current, revamped camera is now addressing.
16:28Managing Director Winfried Piech would not describe his customers as particularly uptight.
16:32Nevertheless, he has banished the, as he says, erotic films to the back of the store for the time being.
16:36A little discretion is still considered good in this country, but...
16:40Every customer or citizen, or rather, every person who comes in here, knows that such a corner exists.
16:47Winfried Piech is unaware of any group that might feel offended by these diverse offerings.
16:53Jürgen Linsenbart from Thuringia opens his video store on March 5, 1990.
17:00First in their own home and later in the former Intershop.
17:04But he still has no answer to the question of whether he is allowed to lend out pornographic films.
17:10He will only receive it one month after opening his business.
17:15Quote.
17:16With the business license, the video store owner also assumes the responsibility of independently acquiring knowledge of the laws and regulations.
17:25and to ensure compliance with them.
17:29Constitution, Trade Act, Media Act, Youth Protection Act, Copyright Act.
17:36The new dimensions of law and order.
17:40The cautious investigations conducted by East German television probably point in the same direction.
17:46They're springing up like mushrooms.
17:49No statistics know how many actually exist at present.
17:52Erotic clips and porn of all kinds are also rental hits with us.
17:57For me, it's eroticism, I would say.
18:00This isn't about instruction, but rather because all of this was withheld from him for all these years.
18:07And that's why we just have to do this; it will all sort itself out.
18:10This is just at the beginning and afterwards, then it will all settle down again.
18:15But you think it's okay that something like this exists?
18:16I'm still here, listen, we're still free people.
18:19Well, I would definitely say so.
18:22That's necessary, that's part of it.
18:24Come on, we're approaching 60 so that we can still see and experience something.
18:29Listen, yeah?
18:31Clear.
18:32So.
18:33The fact is, the eternal dance around the hot and the naked is all too often described with the word erotica.
18:39The question remains: where does this eroticism end and where does pornography, or literally, the writing of prostitutes, begin?
18:48Erotica, soft erotica, or pornography?
18:53Before the hot goods can be sorted, they must be procured.
18:57Not an easy task in the spring of 1990, not even for video store owner Linsenbart.
19:05So it was really, really quite difficult to get hold of anything.
19:12And I didn't get a proper sidekick either.
19:15He then only gave a vague answer, yes, you'll have to see how you do that, because it was...
19:21regarding the import.
19:22Yes, and back then cars were really strictly checked, and if someone came along with a cassette tape,
19:33They turned a blind eye to that.
19:35Sure, if someone arrived with 500, that would be a bit more problematic.
19:40We were sweating buckets at the border, and, well...
19:45The border between East and West Germany still exists. The contraband could be discovered during the checks.
19:52The import of pornography was prohibited under the customs laws of the GDR.
19:57But the border regime is far from what it used to be.
20:02So you had to make excuses.
20:05I just said, yes, video store often, and then they didn't even know what a video store was.
20:11That was true, but in the end, through communication, we managed to get it to the point where he didn't bother us there.
20:25has been seriously prosecuted.
20:27The once impenetrable state border is no longer an obstacle for businesspeople who make their money through sex.
20:34Business is booming in both directions.
20:37The East German market promises good business.
20:40Also for Michael Schey, aka Harry S. Morgan, a porn producer from Essen.
20:46In the spring of 1990, he decided to film couples in East Germany.
20:52He specializes in porn videos featuring amateur couples.
20:56His current production is "Intimate Stories from the GDR".
20:59And as you can see in the background, I am in Berlin.
21:04In Berlin in the spring of 1990, on the occasion of the elections in East Berlin.
21:10I'm just switching over to my first couple now.
21:13The two come from Gera, which is in Thuringia.
21:16They had a few problems at the beginning, but I think it worked out quite well in the end.
21:21And now, of course, the first question.
21:23How do we know that Harry exists in the GDR?
21:27My husband went to the West and brought me back one of those porn magazines.
21:35And then I read the address and thought, I'll write to them.
21:40That's how it is, that's how it came about, from such a feud.
21:44We wrote it there.
21:47I wrote to you once, and I wrote three letters.
21:49Because you said, "I hope the Stasi doesn't find it after all."
21:52And I received all three letters, and now here we are.
21:55After a day or two, I suddenly noticed it was very flaky.
21:59And there was incredible curiosity from the other side as well.
22:04So, one became more relaxed and then gained the courage to finally get down to brass tacks.
22:11Unvarnished insights into an unknown GDR.
22:14Filmed for a Western audience.
22:17Is that enough?
22:18What was your first experience like in the capitalist sex West?
22:23It went well.
22:24What did you envision for me?
22:26German, German collaboration in amateur video with East German actors and a West German director.
22:32Oh, that seemed like forever.
22:33Yes, then you grew all over again.
22:35They had sophisticated sex and they also had group sex.
22:39And they actually had perfectly normal human needs.
22:43But I also have to say that I found the women to be much more dominant in the whole action.
22:50were.
22:52Harry is filming in Leipzig, Neubrandenburg, Gera and East Berlin.
22:56He has no trouble finding his actors.
22:59The casting is done via advertisements in his contact magazine Happy Weekend.
23:05We still have some ads available if you'd like to participate, or feel free to apply.
23:09There are ads in there asking people to apply for film shoots or whatever.
23:17And that's how it happened.
23:19About these ads.
23:21They read that, and then they mustered up their courage and said,
23:26Oh man, Elli, let's not even say we've always had group sex here.
23:32This is a chance for us to show what we can do and how good we are.
23:36The amateur actors even receive compensation for their freedom of expression.
23:41For very few, however, is that the decisive motivation in front of Harry's camera.
23:46to freely reveal their sex life.
23:52We were talking and then I said, you even get paid for it, compensation for expenses.
23:59Honestly? What, there's money in it?
24:01Yes, I said, you came all the way here, we have to get something in return.
24:05Oh, that's great!
24:06Yes, well that's a good thing.
24:08So I wasn't asked beforehand, I'm only doing it because I earn money that way.
24:13They didn't even know about that.
24:17Helmut Pöschel, a biology teacher and amateur filmmaker from Würchwitz in Saxony-Anhalt
24:22It also deals with nude photographs.
24:25However, he works without financial compensation, making erotically edifying amateur films.
24:31He can't compete with porn pro Harry from Essen.
24:35Not even with his erotic classic Lady Chatterley and the Savages.
24:41Filmed on the Baltic Sea with an unknown beauty and the members of the East German band Reggieplay.
24:48Wild sex fantasies, very elaborately staged for an amateur film.
24:53And not without a wink.
24:57The last performance takes place in early 1990.
25:01At the invitation of a VEB combat group unit.
25:05We were also fully kitted out and redistributed their locations.
25:10So it's a shame I didn't have my camera with me.
25:14And they really patted each other on the back and praised each other.
25:20And they said they still had some money in the till, so a little bit of cash.
25:26And now they want to spend that money culturally.
25:30In this form, this erotic role.
25:35And they truly enjoyed experiencing that.
25:40And I had to chuckle at the optimism that this fighting group still spread.
25:47How things could continue.
25:50Pöschel's business model is coming to an end.
25:52Not only because there are no longer any working-class combat groups.
25:56And other VEB clients.
25:59Films like Lady Chatterley simply don't stand a chance against the cutthroat porn and sex competition from the West.
26:06The starting conditions for East German sex and porn activists do not seem to be the best.
26:14Then, in June 1990, the German Sex League suddenly appears on the scene.
26:20As representatives of the interests of East Germans.
26:24Founding event on the grounds of the Agra agricultural fair.
26:28The Leipzig People's Police still seem uncertain.
26:34Well, what am I supposed to make of that?
26:37It is a registered association.
26:40Perhaps there really is a need to catch up in this area.
26:44That's not a bad thing, is it?
26:46What do you say to the fact that erotic items are being sold here on a public street?
26:51Well, erotic articles – that can mean many things.
26:54I already said that as long as these things are being sold in the background, for example, children shouldn't get their hands on them.
27:03get close.
27:05We've probably had to get used to it, since these things are also sold in Germany.
27:12The Sex League is fighting against Western commercialization.
27:17They demand sophisticated eroticism and cultured sex.
27:21Commercial prostitution is rejected.
27:24On the other hand, the Sex League wants to operate its own brothels, sex shops and a mail-order business.
27:29Many contradictions. A great deal of effort.
27:33Isn't the effort involved in founding a sex league sinfully high for something that already works or happens all by itself?
27:39The effort is considerable, but it's a question of risk and we are willing to take that risk.
27:44The financing is to be regulated through membership fees, but only 1176 founding members are willing to pay the annual fee of 60 marks.
27:55to pay.
27:56You can't make any great leaps with that.
27:59Nevertheless, it has its own press organ.
28:02So I'm delighted to have the first issue of Sexsklusiv, the first sex magazine of the GDR.
28:09The number 1 album is titled "Pleasure instead of frustration".
28:12What did the Sex League want?
28:14The Sex League had set itself the goal of providing sex education in schools, in an unconventional way, and relatively early.
28:23We wanted to have the opportunity in East Germany to establish so-called Eros Center sex shops, in order to engage with the appropriate
28:32Literature is used to inform, stimulate, and inspire.
28:37We wanted to ensure that tolerance existed so that citizens could freely develop their lifestyles and ways of loving.
28:47Advertisements in the central organ of the Sex League.
28:52Under the heading "Erotic Market".
28:58So, another point of contention in the German sex league was that we have an overabundance of advertisements in the erotic market.
29:07place.
29:08That was a bit strange for me, because that wasn't what I wanted.
29:12That there are stories like this, where people in their 50s are looking for something, and the texts contain content that I can say was really helpful to me.
29:22Even back then it was unacceptable.
29:24Then I could have created a classifieds publication for people seeking partners.
29:30But yes, it was in the managing director's interest at the time to establish it that way.
29:38Differing opinions, unresolved financing, and competition from the West.
29:43Difficult conditions. Is the sex league already at its beginning, or at its end?
29:49At least it is an attempt with an explicit claim to the East.
29:53So you believe that there is an East- and a West-specific sexuality or eroticism?
30:00Yes, absolutely in every sense. For 40 years we didn't have what was already possible over there.
30:04We're only just beginning to talk about sexuality.
30:07We simply have to try to make some original erotic literature accessible to the population.
30:12and not from what Beate Use offers us with her experiences.
30:17Beate Use had long since established herself in the GDR with her mail-order business.
30:23However, East German customers still lack the correct currency.
30:26But they don't want to wait until the D-Mark is finally here either.
30:30This leads to offers typical of the GDR in letters.
30:35Goods exchanged for goods.
30:37He just came by today and thanked me very charmingly.
30:41I received your package and would like to thank him very much for it.
30:46and tears of joy welled up in their eyes.
30:50And now he would naturally like to buy things more often.
30:54And that is rather difficult as long as there is no monetary union.
30:58And he offers to deliver fresh, organic asparagus to us.
31:02And my staff and I will gladly make use of that.
31:07The monetary and social union will come into force on July 1, 1990.
31:12Now East Germans also have the hard D-Mark.
31:15and can shop properly at Beate Use, without asparagus and other East German products.
31:22New dimensions for the sex industry in the East.
31:25The Wild West is only just beginning.
31:29At this time, the first sex shop in the GDR opened on Reginenstrasse in Leipzig.
31:38The exterior ambiance is rather modest.
31:40The crowds are still large.
31:45You have to get in, take a look, and get some information.
31:48We've been missing all of this.
31:49We're still a bit in the dark.
31:51We don't know where it came from or where it will go next.
31:53So first, get some information and buy a little something.
31:56We had that too, but only for the upper classes, not for the little guy.
32:00And I think it's good.
32:05There are slow periods, but there are also times when people wait until a cabin becomes available again.
32:10is free.
32:12A week later, an erotic market opens in Dessau.
32:15Under the label Novum in a backyard.
32:19The East German operators are Sibylle and Frank Wischgoll.
32:22We were already familiar with this hustle and bustle from the opening a week earlier in Leipzig.
32:27and knew what we were getting ourselves into, and then let people in gradually.
32:32who then received all these new things with great enthusiasm and excitement.
32:40It was true that the masses streamed in.
32:42We could only let in a few at a time, and then we practically had to let them in in batches.
32:48And yes, people were interested in everything.
32:51Yes, we sometimes had to empty the cash register and remove the money.
32:56because the revenue we generated was improbable.
33:00The Wischgoll family receives the goods from the Novum chain in North Rhine-Westphalia.
33:05At first glance, it's the usual West-East franchise model.
33:12It was something new, something that no one had ever seen before.
33:19something you weren't allowed to have or buy before.
33:21And the mentality there is so open and relaxed,
33:26that there was simply an urge to acquire something like that.
33:30And it was very, very well received.
33:32And there, pornography was indeed the main focus.
33:38But there isn't only enthusiasm for the new German sex wave.
33:42A demonstration against pornography in front of the Leipzig erotic market.
33:49We have no fundamental objection to such inclusions.
33:55However, we strongly oppose the location of the erotic market.
34:01as it is located in the immediate vicinity of five schools,
34:05in which children from first to twelfth grade come and go daily.
34:10The Wild West that is currently taking hold here in the form of a Wild East is catastrophic.
34:15And this is the kind of cutthroat, dog-eat-dog world that's expected here.
34:20And people point their elbows much more sharply than they actually are in the West.
34:25And that's why we must try to prevent such stores from opening.
34:28Class struggle in the erotic market.
34:30Sex shop owner Frank Wischgol is also experiencing opposition.
34:34Above all, he has to take care of his customers.
34:37And unlike in the West, more women are involved.
34:41In the lead-up to our business opening, we had always had a kind of...
34:46I'd call it an internship, done in the West.
34:48And they found that the influx of female customers was rather low.
34:55A new experience for the East German sex shop operator.
35:01I'd guess that in the West there were probably 20% or more women.
35:06Things were very different in the East.
35:09Sometimes women would come here in groups to choose lingerie or simply to look around.
35:16And I had the impression that the West still had something to learn in that regard.
35:22This observation has also been made by the joint venture partners in the West.
35:26Women as customers in a sex shop – that's new.
35:31The managing director for the West has few reservations,
35:34to develop this new market segment more strongly in the West as well.
35:40What he took away from his work here was that many women were being recruited,
35:44that a lot of advertising was done.
35:46Come ladies, take a look at our shops too.
35:49We don't just have disreputable pornography here,
35:51We also have erotic souvenirs and erotic toys here.
35:56We want to inspire you, we want to enrich your love life.
36:01Novo supermarkets across Germany are increasingly targeting female customers.
36:08Good sexuality has nothing to do with being disreputable.
36:12And that's what we learned from the East.
36:16East German television is now addressing sex and pornography in a way never seen before.
36:22What haven't we had to do without?
36:25An erotic show at the Marzahner Krug, newspapers and magazines at the kiosks,
36:30The strip is now finally accessible to shift workers as well.
36:33Beate Use's hot lingerie and porn
36:36and of course, aids such as vibrators are included.
36:40We finally have the porn, or rather, the porn has us.
36:43Welcome to Up Close Live.
36:45I'm hoping for a heated, but also lively discussion.
36:48So, the first question.
36:50Honestly, Tobias, when was the last time you watched a porn film?
36:53Oh, that was about three weeks ago.
36:58Mario had just bought his new video recorder cheaply for East German marks.
37:03And in the afternoon, the first thing I might have watched was a porn film.
37:05Because we wanted to see it, we took a look.
37:07We drank a beer with it and after half an hour it was already pretty boring.
37:11What do you find erotic about it?
37:15Hmm, that's difficult.
37:16Yes, it depends on the mood.
37:18Sometimes it turns me on, and sometimes it doesn't.
37:19So, when I'm sitting on the sofa with Mario, it doesn't really turn me on that much.
37:22In my opinion, pornography has something to do with the market and with power.
37:26That is, in fact, a power of representation.
37:28It conveys an image of how women and men should be.
37:33And that, to put it mildly, is in my opinion a kind of psychological terror.
37:36which is mainly also practiced on women.
37:39If you don't want to watch it, then you don't have to.
37:41I don't see any psychological terror in it at all, because if someone doesn't want to watch porn,
37:45He will not be forced by anyone in this world.
37:49Now try it.
37:50You're out, so go downstairs.
37:53And then you look in that direction again.
37:54Yes, that's cool.
37:56Remain.
37:59Heidi Witwer from Leipzig is also familiar with sex and eroticism.
38:04She was one of the first strippers in East Germany.
38:08But after the fall of the Berlin Wall, business really took off.
38:12She now works as a photographer.
38:15Eroticism never let her go.
38:18I'm just kind of a big mama when it comes to erotica.
38:21So, as I said, I've been on stage myself for ages.
38:25I think it was 1987, 1988 or something like that, that's when I first dropped it.
38:33And yes, I then had to train people because I couldn't manage it alone anymore.
38:42So there were so many orders.
38:44And the East was totally starved, starved of such things.
38:49It was like this, I was in such high demand that I have to say, as I said, I earned money during the trade fair week.
38:56Heidi Witwer already earned a good living in East Germany.
39:01After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she was overwhelmed with orders.
39:15It's such a funny thing, nobody knows what will happen.
39:18About a minute and a half, whether as Helmut Kohl, a cleaning lady, or a nurse, it doesn't matter.
39:23A real-life situation.
39:25And then there's this point of intersection, and suddenly you're a completely different person.
39:29And then comes a totally erotic title, where people immediately know what the fact is.
39:34The moment of switching, that's the crux of the matter.
39:38And that's probably what makes it so tasty.
39:42The stripper embodies confident eroticism.
39:48Sex and pornography, however, were never part of their business model.
39:57When I strip on stage, it's a job.
40:01When I go into town and go to the newsagent and there are pornographic magazines there, it creeps me out.
40:08That's not necessary.
40:09Children walk along there too.
40:10When I stripped, for example at a festival tent event, the children could watch from the front.
40:15I did get naked, but it always depends on how you do it.
40:19So, pornography – who didn't have porn somewhere in the zone?
40:27Of course we looked at the ear.
40:29But I think, if I may say so, the East Germans never had such problems, that's what it's about
40:35to hang large amounts of wood.
40:37Pornography, sex, simple nudity. Apparently no problem for East German citizens.
40:44Nude body culture on the Baltic Sea. For many West German tourists after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this was new and disturbing.
40:51We think it's terrible that this is being done here.
40:54There are designated beaches, but apparently some people haven't gotten used to them yet.
41:00Those who can't afford it are the ones who bathe here.
41:03We don't find that very nice.
41:04We find it horrible, even hideous.
41:07There were a relatively large number of West German tourists on these East German Baltic Sea beaches,
41:13who were irritated by this semi-naked, completely naked, disorderly nudity.
41:21Mass nudity.
41:22And the East Germans, to whom I belonged, were in turn somewhat irritated.
41:27that Triptice was now available in the harbor bar in the evenings, which had not been the case before.
41:30As early as 1988, Konrad Weller participated in a study that examined the sexual behavior of East and West German students.
41:39Researchers find that women from the East have more orgasms than women from the West.
41:46Nobody cared about that back then.
41:49Suddenly, headlines in the summer of 1990.
41:52More female orgasms in the GDR.
41:54However, in the unification activities, the orgasm became politicized and, in a sense, caught between the fronts.
42:06And the editors of this major tabloid newspaper could not tolerate that.
42:12that something so vital should somehow have been better in the East.
42:16And then they came up with the headline.
42:20The orgasm professor is crazy, and there was a lot of direct quotes from young women in Leipzig who said,
42:31No, no, we don't have orgasms anymore. I sit at the checkout all day and I'm tired in the evening.
42:38Beyond all debates, more and more East German women are appearing on the streets of Oranienburger Straße in East Berlin.
42:45And elsewhere too.
42:46The tip of the iceberg?
42:49More speculation in the media.
42:51Countless women in East Germany are said to have sold sex for money in the past.
42:58Approximately 100,000 women are said to have occasionally engaged in prostitution.
43:03We conducted a sexological study in 1990 and also asked,
43:09Specifically, adult women, were asked if they had ever had sex for money.
43:12And one percent said yes.
43:13If you extrapolate from this, if you consider it as a dark figure study and extrapolate from it,
43:17That would amount to about 30,000.
43:19In Leipzig, prostitution now takes place openly on the street in 1990.
43:26Roscher Street, not far from the center, is blocked with the caravan of the prostitutes.
43:31There is heavy traffic.
43:35No one yet suspects that a red-light war will soon break out in Saxony.
43:40The sex industry, with all its dark sides, has arrived in the East.
44:16Subtitling by ZDF for funk, 2017
44:20by ZDF for funk, 2017
44:23UNpheith
44:23Thank you.
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