Desc: Aufbruch zur Macht: Edelbert Richter: Directed by Thomas Grimm, Werner Treß. With Edelbert Richter, Rainer Eppelmann, Karin Grünberg, Erich Honecker. From 1981 to 1989 Edelbert Richter was involved in groups critical of the GDR regime and in the peace and ecological movements . He developed political models for the reunification of Germany. Richter was a founding member of DA - Der Demokratische Aufbruch (Democratic Awakening party) in 1989 , which was an oppositional political group in East Germany.