![]() ![]() ![]() Once it had designated someone an “enemy of the state,” the Stasi was empowered to monitor every detail of his life, from the novels on his shelves to his child’s friends or his favorite beer.Īustralian Anna Funder’s first contact with East Germany came in the 1980s, when she was a student in West Berlin. Its notorious secret service, the Stasi-which, at its height, had as many as one informer for every 6.5 people-was uniquely positioned to spy on citizens. soon substituted that system’s cruelties with abuses of its own. ![]() A communist state that attempted to rise above Nazism, the G.D.R. In 1949, a year after George Orwell published his dystopian novel 1984, the world of Big Brother became a stark reality for 17 million Germans who found themselves living in the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany. Interview with Anna Funder Adventures in Stasiland ![]()
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