ABSTRACT
The best-known examples of espionage films originate primarily from the United Kingdom or the USA. Popular culture in the German Democratic Republic also emulated the genre, yet research on it is sparse. This paper seeks to fill this gap by analyzing two television programs, Rendezvous with Unknown (Rendezvous mit Unbekannt) (GDR 1969) and The Invisible Visor (Das unsichtbare Visier) (GDR 1973–1979). Even though these two examples cannot represent the entirety of the genre in the GDR, they nonetheless allow a demonstration of diversity with regard to the representation of history, the State Security Service, and the discursive construction of threats.
