Stasiland Quotes

Question 1

‘lonely, teary, guilt wracked wreck’

Answer 1

Frau Paul

Question 2

‘brave and strong and broken’

Answer 2

MIriam

Question 3

‘cease to exist’

Answer 3

The stasi

Question 4

‘feminist bookshop’

Answer 4

Julia

Question 5

‘doing great’

Answer 5

Julia after moving to San Francisco

Question 6

‘much more at home than in my own country’

Answer 6

Julia

Question 7

‘no unity in this country’

Answer 7

years after the fall of the wall

Question 8

‘all the courage I had is in that place’

Answer 8

Hagen koch

Question 9

‘Stasi orchestrated the funeral’

Answer 9

Charlie Miriam’s husband

Question 10

‘human satisfaction of having one up on someone else’

Answer 10

informers

Question 11

‘more than the sum of their past’

Answer 11

trauma

Question 12

‘to understand a regime like the GDR, stories of ordinary people must be told’

Answer 12

funder

Question 13

‘no longer human’

Answer 13

miriam after jail

Question 14

‘they want to pretend it all didn’t happen’

Answer 14

everyone

Question 15

‘the most perfected surveillance state of all time’

Answer 15

east germany

Question 16

‘couldn’t get rid of the smell’

Answer 16

of old men

Question 17

‘intense and overt’

Answer 17

surveillance

Question 18

‘it was the total surveillance that damaged me the worst’

Answer 18

julia

Question 19

‘afraid’

Answer 19

the stasi, of julia complaining to erich honecker

Question 20

‘there is no unemployment in the German Democratic Republic’

Answer 20

told to Julia at the unemployment office

Question 21

‘in the amnesties of 1990, mistakes were made and the serial rapist was released’

Answer 21

julia’s rapist

Question 22

‘brave and strong and broken’

Answer 22

miriam

Question 23

‘lonely, teary, guilt wracked wreck’

Answer 23

frau paul

Question 24

‘that they have learned nothing’

Answer 24

Stasi after the war

Question 25

‘puzzle women’

Answer 25

piecing together shredded stasi files

Question 26

‘it was an automatic flight reaction’

Answer 26

miriam to charlie after her time in jail

Question 27

‘To remember or forget- which is healthier?’

Answer 27

funder’s own question

Question 28

‘warning from the past’

Answer 28

parliament building of the GDR

Question 29

‘People come here to read their unauthorised biographies’

Answer 29

the extent of the surveillance and complete disrespect for privacy

Question 30

‘they shredded the files until the shredders collapsed’

Answer 30

stasi

Question 31

‘What were the dangers of knowing? Or the dangers of ignoring the past and doing it all again..’

Answer 31

of stasi documents

Question 32

‘opened its files on its people to its people’

Answer 32

germany

Question 33

‘the masterful work’

Answer 33

(of the stasi) Said by Herr Winz, ex STasi

Question 34

‘this man wants to play spy games seven years after the fall of the Wall’

Answer 34

again, Herr Winz. what an annoying man

Question 35

‘terrifying possibility’

Answer 35

of the wall happening once again

Question 36

‘something they hope might one day come again’

Answer 36

stasi men about the wall

Question 37

‘things have been put behind glass but they are not yet over’

Answer 37

recovery still must be done

Question 38

‘and underneath the need to know, is the need for justice’

Answer 38

miriam on charlie

Question 39

‘your art will reveal your inner selves’

Answer 39

art + creativity