Anna Funder S Stasiland

Author : Anna Funder
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443406093

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Stasiland by Anna Funder Pdf

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight and in which one in fifty East Germans were informing on their fellow citizens, there are thousands of captivating stories. Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, who as a sixteen-year-old might have started World War III; she visits the man who painted the line that became the Berlin Wall; and she gets drunk with the legendary “Mik Jegger” of the East, once declared by the authorities to his face to “no longer exist.” Each enthralling story depicts what it’s like to live in Berlin as the city knits itself back together—or fails to. This is a history full of emotion, attitude and complexity.

Author : Anna Funder
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623730376

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Stasiland by Anna Funder Pdf

Stasiland tells true stories of people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany, and of people who worked for its secret police, the Stasi. Internationally hailed as a classic, it is ‘fascinating, entertaining, hilarious, horrifying and very important’ (Tom Hanks) and ‘a heartbreaking, beautifully written book.’ (Claire Tomalin). East Germany was one of the most intrusive surveillance states of all time. One in 7 people spied on their friends, family and colleagues. In ‘the most humane and sensitive way’ (J.M. Coetzee) Funder tells the true stories of four people who had the extraordinary courage to refuse to collaborate with the Stasi, and the price they paid. She meets Miriam Weber, who was imprisoned at 16 after scaling the Berlin Wall. She drinks with the legendary “Mik Jegger” of the Eastern Bloc who was ‘disappeared’. And she finds former Stasi men who defend their regime long past its demise, and yearn for the second coming of Communism. Stasiland won the Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction published in English in 2004. It was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, the W.H. Heinemann Award, the Index Freedom of Expression Awards, The Age Book of the Year Awards, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature (Innovation in Writing). It is read in schools and universities in many countries, and has been adapted for CD and the stage by The National Theatre, London.

Author : Anna Funder
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062077332

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Stasiland by Anna Funder Pdf

“Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. Aclassic.” —Claire Tomalin, Guardian “Books ofthe Year” AnnaFunder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of theresistance against East Germany’s communist dictatorship in these harrowing,personal tales of life behind the Iron Curtain—and, especially, of life underthe iron fist of the Stasi, East Germany’s brutal state security force. In thetradition of Frederick Taylor’s The Berlin Wall andPhilip Gourevitch’s WeWish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families, Funder’s Stasiland isa masterpiece of investigative reporting, written with novelistic vividness andthe compelling intensity of a universal, real-life story.

Author : Anna Funder
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062077585

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All That I Am by Anna Funder Pdf

Award-winning author Anna Funder delivers an affecting and beautifully evocative debut novel about a group of young German exiles who risk their lives to awaken the world to the terrifying threat of Hitler and Nazi Germany. Based on real-life events and people, All That I Am brings to light the heroic, tragic, and true story of a small group of left-wing German social activists who mounted a fierce and cunning resistance from their perilous London exile, in a novel that fans of Suite Francaise, The Piano Teacher, and Atonement will find irresistible and unforgettable. “An intimate exploration of human connection and our responsibility to one another.” —Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin

Author : Anna Funder
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760143664

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The Girl with the Dogs by Anna Funder Pdf

'To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction – the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she decided against in her youth. What could she have made of her life had she chosen differently? And what will she risk to find out? Deceptively concise, The Girl with the Dogs is a masterful story about life from beginning to end, and about the brief moments of choice that have enduring consequences. Includes Anton Chekhov's masterpiece, 'The Lady with the Dog'.

Author : Ruth Thomas,Anna Funder
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1459662237

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Anna Funder's Stasiland by Ruth Thomas,Anna Funder Pdf

Stasiland Insight Text Guide has highly visual Character Map with notes on each character and their relationships; in - depth and comprehensive background and context notes; excellent notes on genre, style and structure; a chapter - by - chapter/scene - by - scene analysis; discussion of characters and relationships; highly informative section o...

Author : Ralph Hope
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786078285

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The Grey Men by Ralph Hope Pdf

‘Fascinating and powerful.’ Sunday Times What do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies? By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. For forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access to highly personal information, found themselves unemployed overnight. This is the story of what they did next. Former FBI agent Ralph Hope uses present-day sources and access to Stasi records to track and expose ex-officers working everywhere from the Russian energy sector to the police and even the government department tasked with prosecuting Stasi crimes. He examines why the key players have never been called to account and, in doing so, asks if we have really learned from the past at all. He highlights a man who continued to fight the Stasi for thirty years after the Wall fell, and reveals a truth that many today don’t want spoken. The Grey Men comes as an urgent warning from the past at a time when governments the world over are building an unprecedented network of surveillance over their citizens. Ultimately, this is a book about the present.

Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810111233

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The Train was on Time by Heinrich Böll Pdf

Author : Hester Vaizey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198718741

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Born in the GDR by Hester Vaizey Pdf

The real life stories of eight East Germans caught up in the dramatic transition from Communism to Capitalism by the fall of the Berlin Wall - and what they feel about life after the Wall.

Author : Peter Schneider
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226739414

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The Wall Jumper by Peter Schneider Pdf

In the Wall Jumper, real people cross the Wall not to defect but to quarrel with their lovers, see Hollywood movies, and sometimes just because they can't help themselves—the Wall has divided their emotions as much as it has their country.

Author : Anna Funder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Germany (East)
ISBN : 820239239X

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Stasiland by Anna Funder Pdf

Author : Michelle Barker
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781773210735

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The House of One Thousand Eyes by Michelle Barker Pdf

Who can Lena trust to help her find out the truth? Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it’s particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory explosion and time spent in a psychiatric hospital recovering from the trauma, she is sent to live with her stern aunt, a devoted member of the ruling Communist Party. Visits with her beloved Uncle Erich, a best-selling author, are her only respite. But one night, her uncle disappears without a trace. Gone also are all his belongings, his books, and even his birth records. Lena is desperate to know what happened to him, but it’s as if he never existed. The worst thing, however, is that she cannot discuss her uncle or her attempts to find him with anyone, not even her best friends. There are government spies everywhere. But Lena is unafraid and refuses to give up her search, regardless of the consequences. This searing novel about defiance, courage, and determination takes readers into the chilling world of a society ruled by autocratic despots, where nothing is what it seems.

Author : Anne Nesbet
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763691806

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Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet Pdf

Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems. Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn’t really Noah and he didn’t really just turn eleven in March. And he can’t even ask them why — not because of his Astonishing Stutter, but because asking questions is against the newly instated rules. (Rule Number Two: Don’t talk about serious things indoors, because Rule Number One: They will always be listening). As Noah—now “Jonah Brown”—and his parents head behind the Iron Curtain into East Berlin, the rules and secrets begin to pile up so quickly that he can hardly keep track of the questions bubbling up inside him: Who, exactly, is listening — and why? When did his mother become fluent in so many languages? And what really happened to the parents of his only friend, Cloud-Claudia, the lonely girl who lives downstairs? In an intricately plotted novel full of espionage and intrigue, friendship and family, Anne Nesbet cracks history wide open and gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be an outsider in a world that’s impossible to understand.

Author : Iain MacGregor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982100056

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Checkpoint Charlie by Iain MacGregor Pdf

A “constantly captivating…well-researched and often moving” (The Wall Street Journal) history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War. In the early 1960s, East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall, an eleven-foot-high barrier that consisted of seventy-nine miles of fencing, 300 watchtowers, 250 guard dog runs, twenty bunkers, and was operated around the clock by guards who shot to kill. Over the next twenty-eight years, at least five thousand people attempt to smash through it, swim across it, tunnel under it, or fly over it. In 1989, the East German leadership buckled in the face of a civil revolt that culminated in half a million East Berliners demanding an end to the ban on free movement. The world’s media flocked to capture the moment which, perhaps more than any other, signaled the end of the Cold War. Checkpoint Charlie had been the epicenter of global conflict for nearly three decades. Now, “in capturing the essence of the old Cold War [MacGregor] may just have helped us to understand a bit more about the new one” (The Times, London)—the mistrust, oppression, paranoia, and fear that gripped the world throughout this period. Checkpoint Charlie is about the nerve-wracking confrontation between the West and USSR, highlighting such important global figures as Eisenhower, Stalin, JFK, Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedung, Nixon, Reagan, and other politicians of the period. He also includes never-before-heard interviews with the men who built and dismantled the Wall; children who crossed it; relatives and friends who lost loved ones trying to escape over it; military policemen and soldiers who guarded the checkpoints; CIA, MI6, and Stasi operatives who oversaw operations across its borders; politicians whose ambitions shaped it; journalists who recorded its story; and many more whose living memories contributed to the full story of Checkpoint Charlie.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09T22:59:00Z
Category : History
ISBN : 9798822529427

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Summary of Anna Funder's Stasiland by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I catch the underground to Leipzig, a couple of hours from Berlin. It’s snowing outside. I move through the slush to where I know there are toilets. The large woman in a purple apron and loud makeup at the bottom of the steps is guarding her stash of condoms and tissues and tampons. #2 I can’t smell anything anymore. The train travels through northern Germany, and I can feel myself falling asleep. I remember my mother’s moustache in the sun, my adolescent hunger, and the burnt chalk smell of tram brakes in summer. #3 I visited Leipzig in 1994, five years after the Wall fell in November 1989. I was looking for the Stasi museum, which had formerly been the Stasi offices. The Stasi was the internal army by which the government kept control. It knew everything about everyone, using any means it chose. #4 I visited the Runden Ecke, the area where the Stasi headquarters was located. The citizens’ committee that was in charge of the museum had mounted displays on cheap particleboard screens. There were pictures of protesters occupying the building on December 4, 1989.