Alex Bucholz Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:19:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Alex Bucholz Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 East German Man Receives Contest Prize 45 Years Later https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/01/21/2-east-german-man-receives-contest-prize-45-years-later/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/01/21/2-east-german-man-receives-contest-prize-45-years-later/#comments Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:30:16 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=12091 Gunter Zettl won a radio contest in 1969.

He correctly identified a song the radio station played, and he sent a postcard to the station with the name of the song (“Painter Man,” By The Creation).

Last week, 45 years later, he was finally given his prize.

The reason for the delay was political.

Following World War II, in 1945, Germany was seperated into two states: East Germany and West Germany.

At the time, Zettl was a teenager living in East Germany. Pop music was banned in East Germany at the time.

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