As her narrative builds, stasiland records heartbreaking tales of bravery and betrayal, of suffering and stoicism amid the daily chaos. So traumatised are many of the victims, according to funder, that they are unable to let go of their past and embrace the unified germany. The vessel and the trace in anna funders stasiland jstor. She is caught and thus begins a series of imprisonment and interrogation sessions. In order to understand the extent of the personal damage and despair suffered.
She was placed in solitary confinement for a month no calls, lawyers, books. The authors more abstract use of darkness enables funder to draw parallels. Buy a discounted audible edition of stasiland audio cd from australias leading online bookstore. Pdf the generic status of anna funders stasiland 2002 is uncertain, but it is clear from the opening. Stasiland is a nonfiction text written by anna funder and follows the personal recounts and experiences of those who lived throughout the gdr prior to the fall of the berlin wall. It tells the story of what it was like to work for the stasi, and describes how those who did so now come to terms, or do not, with their pasts. Not because you dont want to but because of the psychological damage inflicted during divided germany. Stories from behind the berlin wall granta books, 2003. Mauer im kopf the sense of there still being a metaphorical wall in your mind that separates you from fully letting go of the past or embracing unified germany. Booktopia has stasiland, stories from behind the berlin wall audio book by anna funder.
Anna cannot believe they buy the story she sells them in order to get some peace. History was taught as a series of inevitable evolutionary leaps towards. Fur ihren essay stasiland besuchte sie menschen mit einer mauer im lebenslauf. People here talk of the mauer im kopf or the wall in the head. Funder, an australian journalist who lived and worked in berlin for a couple of years in the late 1990s, became fascinated by the experiences of people in the former gdr during her stay, a place where, as funder describes what was said was not real and what was. The spys the limit guardian first book award 2003 the. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. German terms in stasiland year 12 literature mentone.
It was a reference to the belief that while the wall may have come down, there was still a wall in peoples heads that needed to be removed and, it was suggested, it would take a generation to remove it. Stasiland by anna funder is a book first published in 2003 about individuals who resisted the east german regime, and others who worked for its secret police, the stasi. Buy stasiland large type large print edition by funder, anna isbn. Anna funder tells astonishing stories from the underbelly of the former east germany. The australian anna funder was working in television in berlin in the mid1990s when she became interested in the stasi. Report eines leipziger pfeffermullers german edition by hoerning, hanskarl and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. She talks about mauer in kopf but also in a way that represent a fear of it all. Stasiland, stories from behind the berlin wall audio book. A book of travel, history and biography that reads like a documentary novel. The sense that many still metaphorically erect the mauer im kopf alludes to the terrifying possibility of the return of the wall. The generic status of anna funders stasiland 2002 is uncertain, but it is clear from the opening pages that the author conceptualizes her project as an act of memory. The australian author recalls her gruelling book tour.