antenne OSTALGIE

German reunification created odd cultural artifacts, and antenne OSTALGIE exploits them explicitly. The station celebrates East German radio culture and music from the DDR era, mixing tracks that played under different political systems through programming that frames them as historical continuity rather than political statement. Artists from the German Democratic Republic get mainstream rotation alongside West German contemporaries, western imports that circulated through bootleg networks, and contemporary performances revisiting older material. The station streams without specified bitrate,…