Staats-Sicherheiten

Stage Director: Bechtel, Clemens

Author: Rosh, Lea

Author: Kreibich-Fischer, Renate

Drewitz, Dieter

Furian, Gilbert

Krawczyk, Stephan

Lengsfeld, Vera

Meister, Matthias

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Catalogue Number: THE10116

UPC: 4280000101167

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15 former prisoners from the Stasi prisons in Potsdam and Berlin- Hohenschonhausen tell their stories. They describe their experiences before, during and after the detention. These are stories that get under your skin because they show the true, the ugly face of the oft transfigured GDR dictatorship, with all their cruelty and perfidious methods of oppression. Each one has a different destiny, each has a different strategy to deal with, everyone can handle and process it differently. What is common to all is the need to talk about it and to ensure that everyone knows about these stories and therefore the truth.

The 'performers' deserve the highest admiration for their courage to be open, for spreading so freely these traumatic experiences from their biography to the audience. The GDR regime has tried again and again to silence its opponents, but it has not succeeded, as this work proves.

The production by Clemens Bechtel, based on the concept of Lea Rosh and Renate Kreibich, is clever, clear and unsentimental, sometimes even laughable, even though it is really crying. Wolfgang Bergmann