Stasiland Quotes

Question 0

Detaining

Answer 0

Detaining people clearly had its own pleasures

Question 1

Palm major N

Answer 1

The Palm of his hand

Question 2

Break heart

Answer 2

Five new and different ways to break a heart

Question 3

Mess / order

Answer 3

The mess that gives rise to all that order

Question 4

Chaos

Answer 4

Orderly chaos

Question 5

Linoleum refuses

Answer 5

It refuses to admit a single thing of beauty or joy

Question 6

Linoleum practical

Answer 6

Practical Lino browness, washed and waxed and charmless

Question 7

Mortgage

Answer 7

So hard to know what kind of mortgage our acts put on our future

Question 8

Lost world

Answer 8

Perspective on this lost world

Question 9

Courage (Frau)

Answer 9

Had the courage to do the right thing

Question 10

Never

Answer 10

Things are never, really, over.

Question 11

Crusade

Answer 11

Lone crusader against forgetting

Question 12

her past

Answer 12

I see a woman who leaves her past in a box and comes to collect it

Question 13

In her arms

Answer 13

I look at the Box on her arms and realise you cannot destroy your past

Question 14

Detail

Answer 14

Every detail was foreseen

Location of the doorbell

Question 15

Everything

Answer 15

This man new everything

Question 16

Spheres

Answer 16

Until you have no private sphere at all

Question 17

Perfected

Answer 17

The most perfected surveillance state of all time

Question 18

Logic

Answer 18

GDR logic

Question 19

Enjoyment

Answer 19

His enjoyment at having me at his mercy

Question 20

Major N.

Answer 20

One long finger on her handwriting, or her lovers

Question 21

Religion

Answer 21

The GDR was like a religion

Question 22

We’d

Answer 22

When they’d left we knew we’d won

Question 23

Plate

Answer 23

All the courage I had is in that plate

Question 24

Scratch

Answer 24

Scratch the GDR at its marrow

Question 25

Innocence (klaus)

Answer 25

An innocence he didn't let them damage

Question 26

Personal victory

Answer 26

Didn't let them get to me

Question 27

Cruelty (Miriam prison)

Answer 27

I was basically no longer human

Question 28

Hagen Koch divorce

Answer 28

At that moment my world broke apart

Question 29

East nostalgia

Answer 29

The new sticklebrick word: Ostalgie

Question 30

The clearer

Answer 30

The clearer you see the worse you feel

Question 31

Shadenfreude

Answer 31

A pleasure derived from others misfortune

Question 32

"Wall in head"

Answer 32

Mauer in Kopf

Question 33

Weltanshauung

Answer 33

A personal philosophy on life

Question 34

Verganheitswelganigung

Answer 34

The process of coming to terms with your own past

Question 35

Memory - what it stands for?

Answer 35

Memory, like so much else is unreliable

Question 36

Genuine nostalgia

Answer 36

Has coloured a cheap and nasty world golden

Question 37

Present

Answer 37

The present already belongs to your past

Question 38

Frau's image

Answer 38

This seems to me the sorriest thing | The picture she has of herself is one the Stasi made

Question 39

Julia's view on memory

Answer 39

I think it's worse if you repress it

Question 40

Fiction

Answer 40

An assortments of fiction as fact

Question 41

Von schnitzels view of erich meilke

Answer 41

A living example of the most humane being

Question 42

Frabrication art

Answer 42

An art, a deeply political art

Question 43

sleight of history

Answer 43

The most extraordinary innocence manoeuvre of the century

Question 44

Erich Meilke

Answer 44

Certainly the most feared man in the GDR

Question 45

Herr Bock

Answer 45

Convince of the cause