Stasiland

Stasiland

"Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall" by Anna Funder is a book about individuals who resisted the East German regime, and others who worked for its secret police, the Stasi. It tells the story of what it was like to work for the Stasi, and describes how the men who did so now come to terms, or not, with their histories.

Funder, an Australian, found that Germans often resorted to stereotypes in describing the Ossis, the German nickname for those who lived in East Germany, dismissing questions about civil resistance. Funder used classified ads to reach former men of the Stasi and anti-Stasi organizations and interviewed them extensively.

Reception

Chris Mitchell of Spike Magazine called it "an essential insight into the totalitarian regime". [cite news
url=http://www.spikemagazine.com/0804stasiland.php
title=Anna Funder: Stasiland
date=August 2004
publisher=Spike Magazine
accessdate=2007-07-14] Giles MacDonogh wrote in The Guardian that the culture of informants and moral capitulations "comes wonderfully to life in Funder's racy account".cite news
url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/firstbook2003/story/0,,1031819,00.html
title=The spy's the limit: Giles MacDonogh is gripped by personal histories of Stasi rule in Anna Funder's Stasiland
author=Giles MacDonogh
date=June 7 2003
publisher=The Guardian
accessdate=2007-07-14]

"Stasiland" has been published in fifteen countries and translated into a dozen different languages. It was shortlisted for many awards in the UK and Australia, among them the Age Book of the Year Awards, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, the Guardian First Book Award 2003, the South Australian Festival Awards for Literature (Innovation in Writing) 2004, the Index Freedom of Expression Awards 2004, and the W.H. Heinemann Award 2004. In June 2004 it was awarded the world’s biggest prize for non-fiction, the Samuel Johnson Prize.

"Stasiland" is being developed for the stage by The National Theatre in London.

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date=2004-06-18
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url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/anna-funder-inside-the-real-room-101-732525.html
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publisher=The Independent


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