1 in the US and the Neue Deutsche Welle emerged. It was the year in which German pop music became an international phenomenon - Nena’s 99 Luftballons went to No. The year 1983 was chosen fairly spontaneously. My wife Anna, with whom I co-created the series, had the idea of telling the story from the viewpoint of the mole - the GDR spy. I carried the story around with me for a while, wondering if I could make a comedy, crime story or thriller out of it. At that moment I realised that espionage always implies counter espionage. While we did this, we sometimes received messages back in which Russian soldiers greeted us personally. I studied Russian for six hours a day and then we were put on big machines wearing big headphones and were asked to record important information. Jörg Winger: The idea for Deutschland 83 came from my experiences in the 1980s when I was a conscripted Bundeswehr soldier in West Germany, intercepting messages from Russian troops in the GDR. Goethe-Institut London: What can you tell us about the conception and development of Deutschland 83? What was the idea behind it?
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