Remembering Lutz Bertram, the blind morning radio host I listened to in Berlin

The other day, I remembered the blind morning radio host I listened to in Berlin in the early 1990s. I couldn't remember his name, but I remembered his story: During the 1970s, he was slowly going blind, and the East German Stasi offered him a visa to have an operation in West Germany that might save his eyesight — but in return, he had to work as an informant. He took the opportunity, and when his work for the Stasi came out in 1995, he lost his morning radio program. A quick search was enough to find his name and the station I listened to again: Lutz Bertram of Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 28 March 2023)