Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Funder interviews East Germans who lived with the Stasi: women who resisted or were broken by surveillance, men who served in the Ministry, and people still negotiating files and informers after the Wall came down. Settings are Leipzig, Berlin, and provincial offices; recurring figures include a woman whose husband died in custody, a former border guard, and a professional interrogator. The method is reported conversation and scene rather than archival monograph. The book is a set of post-unification testimonies about a police state, not a general history of the German Democratic Republic and not a novel.

Three-quarter-bound in yellow cloth with a title printed Modigliani grey paper front board. Frontispiece and 24 pages of colour photographs, 2 maps. Yellow slipcase Black endpapers.