Anna Funder: Stasiland, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Beschreibung

In 1961, a man painted a line through the streets of Berlin. The wall that was built along it would divide the city and its inhabitants for nearly three decades, with those living in the east policed by the Stasi--the brutal state security forces. Years after its fall, Anna Funder met the man who painted that line, along with many others from East Berlin, and asked them to tell their stories. The result, written with intelligence, humor and compassion, is an extraordinary insight into life behind the Wall. A brilliant and necessary book about oppression and history --Rachel Cusk, Evening Standard Books of the Year STASILAND demonstrates that great, original reporting is still possible...a heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic. --Claire Tomalin, Guardian Books of the Year A journey into the bizarre, scary, secret history of the former East Germany that is both relevant and riveting. --Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times

Klappentext

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterward the two Germanys reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. Anna Funder’s bestselling Stasiland brings us extraordinary tales of real lives in the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, who tried to escape to West Berlin as a sixteen-year-old; hears the heartbreaking story of Frau Paul, who was separated from her baby by the Berlin Wall; and gets drunk with the legendary “Mik Jegger of the East,” once declared by the authorities—to his face—“no longer to exist.” And she meets the Stasi men themselves, still proud of their surveillance methods. Funder’s powerful account of that brutal world has become a contemporary classic.