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Stasiland
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
Anna Funder’s Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Stasiland is an Australian classic, the definitive account of tyranny and resistance in the former East Germany.
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited and East Germany ceased to exist.
Anna Funder’s best-selling 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 16-year-old; hears the heartbreaking story of Frau Paul, who was separated from her young 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.
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"Funder is a superb interviewer...she truly excels in the rendering of her sessions with former Stasi employees." (Sunday Times)
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- Jamesup
- 30-03-22
fascinating take on a moment in history
fascinating take on life for the victims of the Stasi and stasi operatives and officers in the near aftermath of the DDR.
One flaw, please get the narrator a glass of water, and then edit out the bits of her clearing her mouth! i don’t want to listen ti drymouth.
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- Naomi
- 07-06-23
Compelling
I just wanted to keep listening. Some truly horrific accounts of a regime turning in on itself and taking its people with it. Well worth a listen. Overall, I liked the narration, despite a few quirks here and there.
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- Nick Twine
- 04-01-24
Administrative Evil Revealed
Mundane men in mundane offices destroy lives on an industrial scale. Very affecting and very well read.
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- Richard Jack
- 20-12-20
A must read/listen
This book gives a humane insight into the horrors that affected the citizens of DDR. The extreme big brother surveillance. The arbitrary decisions made by local Stasi officials, that ruined the lives of the ordinary people. It is important to remember what actually happened. Especially since these things sometimes tends to be romanticized by some people. People who do not know the facts of history.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-06-23
Very interesting
Wow sounds like it was a difficult place to live thanks for the book lads
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- Stuart Turner
- 19-06-23
Personal look at the aftermath of east Germany
As a west German I learnt a lot about individual experience of the stasi and how people live with the past
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- SamR
- 27-10-23
An incredible story of a deeply strange time
Brilliant book. A few errors with the audio, but that doesn’t detract from how brilliant, moving and educational it is.
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- Fred
- 07-02-24
An interesting collection of stories
A fascinating era - the book brings out the stories of people on the wrong side of the wall.
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- KLty
- 16-06-21
Absolutely brilliant
Fascinating from a historical standpoint and beautifully written. Can’t recommend highly enough and I want to read more by this writer.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-04-23
A fascinating glimpse behind the wall
This book should absolutely be part of the school curriculum, but they wouldn’t do that because lays bare the true horrors and paranoia of Marxism.
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