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Bedtime Biography: Stasiland

Scenes From Behind the Berlin Wall

Anna Funder

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Read to you by Karen Cass.

In East Germany, a spy agency called the Stasi built the most sophisticated surveillance network the world has ever seen. For almost 30 years, East Germans were confined physically by the Berlin Wall, but the Stasi’s network of spies and informers was responsible for keeping them in check mentally. It’s hard to imagine what everyday life is like for victims of a surveillance state. Stasiland is their story.

Who Should Listen

  • Cold War buffs
  • People interested in true-life espionage
  • History fans

About the Authors

Anna Funder is an Australian journalist and author. In the early 1990s, she moved to Berlin to experience life in former East Germany. The result was Stasiland, a compilation of stories about everyday life behind the Iron Curtain.