Jürgen Kreowsky, chairman of Rüdersdorfer Heimatfreunde e.V., has an unusual hobby: he has been collecting transistor radios from GDR production for many years. He has selected 29 devices from his collection, photographed them and had them printed on large-format pictures with explanations. These can be viewed from 25 January 2023 to 11 April 2023 at the town hall of the municipality of Rüdersdorf bei Berlin (Hans-Striegelski-Straße 5, 15562 Rüdersdorf bei Berlin) during opening hours.
To coincide with the exhibition, an event on 100 years of broadcasting in Germany will also take place at the Kulturhaus Rüdersdorf on 27 January 2023 at 6 pm.
The exhibition will include the Sternchen, the first transistor radio produced in the GDR, as well as the smallest and largest transistor radios.
The Stern 5 from 1961 could even play single discs. The advertising text read: "Out into the open with Amiga". A transistor radio from the same year, for example, which could be connected to a mechanical alarm clock, shows how advanced the technical possibilities were by the standards of the time. In general, however, technology and productivity always lagged behind the state of the art and so the last picture reports on the end of transistor radio production at VEB Sternradio Berlin in 1991.