Stasiland: Quotes Flashcards
What was Funder’s answer to her question “what am I doing here?”?
“I’m making portraits of people, East Germans, of whom there will be none left in a generation”
What are the quotes relating to Anna Funder?
“I like the freedom of being suspended between two places”
“What am I doing here?”
“I wondered long and hard what went on behind that Wall”
“I’m making portraits of people, East Germans, of whom there will be none left in a generation”
How does Funder describe Miriam?
“She is brave and strong and broken all at once”
What are the quotes relating to Miriam?
“In her voice is a combination of pride in how she became such a fiend, and disbelief that this country created enemies of its children”
“Unbearable obligation” (sticking to a schedule)
“For Miriam, the past stopped when Charlie died”
“I became … an Enemy of the State at sixteen”
“Prison left me with some strange little tics”
“She is brave and strong and broken all at once”
“As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like having an epitaph to life that was”
How does Funder describe Julia?
“a woman … only part-attached to the world”
What does Julia associate the fall of the Wall with?
“She associates the fall of the Wall with the end of what had remained of her private sphere after the Stasi had finished with it”
What are the quotes relating to Julia?
“A woman … only part-attached to the world”
“She associates the fall of the Wall with the end of what had remained of her private sphere after the Stasi had finished with it”
“Julia and her family … trod this line between seeing things for what they were in the GDR, and ignoring those realities in order to stay sane”
“Julia Behrend had fallen into the gap between the GDR’s fiction and its reality”
“She would not become an informer”
How does Karl Wilhelm Fricke (a famous journalist and broadcaster) describe Frau Paul?
“Frau Paul … is a very brave woman”
How does Funder describe Frau Paul when she interviews her?
“A lonely, teary guilt-wracked wreck”
What does Michael Hinze say about Frau Paul?
“She is a very courageous woman … I have a great deal of respect for her”
What are the quotes relating to Frau Paul?
“I had to decide against my son, but I couldn’t let myself be used”
“The picture she has of herself is one that the Stasi made for her”
“Frau Paul … is a very brave woman”
“Her decision took a whole new fund of courage to live with”
“a lonely, teary guilt-wracked wreck”
“She is a very courageous woman … I have a great deal of respect for her”
What are the quotes relating to Klaus?
“The bad boy of East German rock ‘n’ roll”
“He seems incapable of regret, and anger evaporates off him like sweat”
“We simply did not exist any more”
“A naivety that is carefully nurtured and maintained, an innocence that he did not let them damage”
What was Von Schnitzler’s opinion of Erich Mielke?
“Erich Mielke at the top, a living example of the most humane human being”
What are the quotes relating to Von Schnitzler?
“a grumpy old puppet throwing scorn on proceedings from on high”
“He has stuck with what he said back them”
“I was one of the leading figures of the GDR during the Cold War”
“The wall was necessary to defend a threatened nation”
“Erich Mielke at the top, a living example of the most humane human being”
What are the quotes relating to Herr Winz?
“This man wants to play spy games seven years after the fall of the Wall”
“I will meet with you … In order to set the record straight”
“He speaks that socialism, as an article of faith, can continue to exist in minds and hearts regardless of the miseries of history”
“He is undercover, waiting for the Second Coming of socialism”
