The GDR tightens the working restrictions for Western correspondents in an implementing regulation in accordance with the existing regulation on journalists’ activities. Among other things, it becomes mandatory to inform the authorities of and gain permission for interviews as well as trips to East Germany outside of East Berlin.
15 April
1979
The GDR philosopher Wolfgang Harich, who was sentenced to ten years in prison in 1957 for founding a "group hostile to the state", leaves the GDR and moves to Austria.