The television history-oriented volume brings together contributions that examine the magazine-style programming of television in the GDR from different perspectives between 1952 and 1990/91. An introductory overview of magazine history provides information on the development of this program segment and outlines the programmatic background for the other contributions. Detailed conversations with editors and presenters offer firsthand insights into the production and broadcasting history of the historically significant magazine series 'Prisma', 'Kulturmagazin', 'Kirchenjournal', and the church programs that began airing in 1978. A critical evaluation of magazines is presented in a conversation with television critic Eckart Kroneberg and is further deepened by a selection of his reviews published in the West Berlin newspaper 'Der Tagesspiegel' from 1965 to 1991.