6/3/2023 0 Comments Stasiland by Anna Funder![]() ![]() Julia tells of the invasiveness of the Stasi, and of how the Stasi read her love letters to her Italian boyfriend.įunder meets with several ex-Stasi men, including Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, a propagandist who hosted a television show called The Black Channel and rants about western imperialism, as well as Herr Christian, a flippant man who encoded western communications to send to the government in Berlin. Next, Funder hears the story of her landlord, Julia, who grew up in East Germany. In an attempt to hear the other side of the story, Funder takes out an ad seeking the stories of former Stasi officers and receives a response from Herr Winz, who seems to have little regret over his role in the Stasi and still believes socialism to be the best political doctrine. Miriam suspects that her husband was killed by the Stasi. Her husband, Charlie, was later arrested and died under suspicious circumstances in a cell under the Stasi’s watch. First, Funder visits Leipzig, Germany, to meet with Miriam Weber, a woman who was arrested by the Stasi, brutally interrogated, and who later tried to escape over the Wall at age sixteen. ![]()
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