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Miriam and Charlie • Maiden in Her Tower Miriam and Charlie • Maiden in her tower - “From here you could see anyone coming”. • Crime of sedition - "Enemy of the state at 16”. • Dehumanisation. "When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human." • Peter Rabbit in Mr McGregor’s Garden. • “Eleven years too late and six months too early”. • 375 years to piece the shredded Stasi files together. • For Charlie “Making me finally, of this land”. • She cut herself out of photos, as she did not want to exist - "I cut myself out of it" • "brave and strong and broken" • "slight fragile body and big voice" • "perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back" • "she is so slight that the voice comes from nowhere and everywhere at once: it is not immediately evident that it is hers; it fill the room, and wraps us up." • "it was a crime of sedition" • Enemy of state at 16 • investigating her hustbands death • "she has a surprisingly big nicotine-stained voice. she is so slight that the voice comes from nowhere and everwhere at once" • "they break you just like fiction." • "i was no longer human" • "she is a madien safe in her tower" • "i became, officially, an enemy of the state at sixteen" • Was placed in "solitary confinement for a month" • "when i got out of prision i was basically no longer human" • " juvenile prisoner number 725" • "she is a maiden safe in her tower" • Miriam is playing a waiting game that keeps her life suspended • "the interrogation of Miriam, aged sixteen, took place every night for ten nghts for the six hours between 10pm an 4 am" • "When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human" • Miriam was released in 1970, and was seventeen and a half Frau Paul • Crying so silently “It is more like leaking”. • Waking to a changed world. • Choices. • Function of memory. • "The mortgage out acts put on our future”. • seperated from her ill baby son by the wall • imprisoned for helping students escape the GDR • "frau paul had a delight and strength about her" • "frau paul had her youth taken away from her" • soul has been "buckled out of shape forever" • "a large woman in her early sixties. she has a cap of dark hair and very blue eyes. Her cloths and hair are neat and she has tapered plump fingers of mournful magdalene." • "Frau Paul does not picture herself as a hero, or a dissident" • "a lonely, teary guilt-wracked wreck.” • "a mournful magdalene" • "The Wall Went Straight Through My Heart"- title of her story • "i had decided against my son" • “memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals. • “The picture we make of ourselves, with all its congruencies and fantastical edges, sustains us.” • "Frau paul does not picture herself as a hero, or a dissident. She is a dental technician and a mother with a terrible family history.And she is a criminal. This seems to me the sorriest;that the picture she has of herself is one the Stasi made for her" • “her decision took a whole new fund of courage to live with.” • "very blue eyes and a soft face" • “It seems to me that Frau Paul, as one does, may have overestimated her own strength, her resistance to damage,” • "She starts to cry, so silently, its more like leaking" • "she had been taken out of time, and out of place" • "memory, like so much else, is unreliable. not only for what it hides, bust also for what it reveals" - claims she didnt know they were going to escape, but Anna believes that she does but it has been repressed into her consciousness • "She had been taken out of time, and out of place" • "But here she is in the place that broke her, and she is telling me about it. It is part bravery, like the bravery that made her refuse the Stasi deal, and it is part, perhaps, obsession, caused by whay they did to her after that" • "She is a dental technician and a mother with a terrible family history. And she is a criminal. This seems to me the sorriest thing; that the picture she has of herself is one that the Stasi made for her" Julia • Funder realises “everything here was broken or about to be” - like Julia. • "I look at her and I know that under all those layers of black is a wiry body and a sharp-sharp mind, but there is something about Julia that breaks my heart." • Julia’s perception of life under the GDR is skewed - “no drunks before the Wall came down”. • Link between Funder and Julia - “I look at Julia and she reminds me of myself." • GDR created the shell in which Julia still lives - hermit crab analogy. • Genuine belief in the ideals of the GDR. • "End of the security state meant the end, too of her personal security”. • GDR-logic • "Fallen into the gap between the GDR’s action and its reality”. • "Julia was distressed, dropped out and suicidal" • Despite all she has been through, Julia seems at times nostalgic rather than bitter about the regime • "I look at Julia and she reminds me of myself - straggly fair hair she doesn't care much about, grey-green eyes and slightly crooked teeth that have seen a bit much nicotine." • "'im unemployed' julia said.'why else would i be here?' 'This is the Employment Office, not the Unemployment office'" • “Behrends were ambivalent about their country.” • "She is a hermit crab, soft-fleshed with friends but ready to whisk back into its shell at the slightest sign of contact" • “The system which had imprisoned her had also, somehow, protected her.” • “a single woman in a single room at the top of her block, unable to go forward into her future.” • "She is wearino her usual assortment of black" - doesnt want to draw attention to herself. • “I wanted to explain to people overseas about the GDR—that Communism was not such a bad system.’ She didn’t want to leave. • "like her father, Julia believed in East Germany as an alternative to the west" • “I look at the box in her arms and know that you cannot destroy your past, nor what it does to you. It’s not ever, really, over” • Anna's Landlady • victimised by the stasi • raped after the wall fell in 1989 • "under all the layers of black is a wiry body and sharp-mind, but there is something about julia that breaks my heart. she is a hermit crab, all soft-fleshed with her friends but ready to whisk back into its shell at the slightest sight of contact." • “Julia was being asked to repeat her knowledge of socialist catechism, her belief in things that were hard to remember, because they were not real.” - the political exam for university entrance • “Julia and her family, like many others in the GDR, trod this line between seeing this for what they were in the GDR, and ignoring those realities in order to stay sane” The Wall • "Anti-Facist Protective Measure" • “It was one of the longest structures ever built to keep people separate from one another.” • “On the night of 12 – 13 August the Berlin Wall was rolled out in barbed wire.” • "I'd really like to have me a look at that wall of theirs" - defined by the wall • " the wall went straight through my heart" • created overnight - "woke to a changed world" • "if you didnt know that the wall had been in this place, you'd find it hard to imagine." • "in less than one generation this scar will be invisible" (building over where the wall used to be) - however inlay still exists through the city today • "monstrous expanse of grey concrete designed to make people feel small. It works" • “Mauer im Kopf" (or the Wall in the Head) • “The Wall persists in Stasi men’s minds as something they hope might one day come again, and in their victims’ minds too, as a terrifying possibility.” • "a hole in the city" • "The wall went through houses, along streets, along waterways, and sliced underground train lines into pieces" • "In other place in Berlin the border, and with it the wall, cut a strange wound through the city." • Berliner Mauer • "Most useful construction in all of German history! In European History!" • "After the wall fell, the german media called east germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time" Absurdity in Stasiland • Anna in Stasiland like Alice in Wonderland. (stories that are almost unbelivable) "I Shrank like Alice" - Anna Funder. • “Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. ‘No, no!’ said the Queen. ‘Sentence first—verdict afterwards.’ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll” • "'im unemployed' julia said.'why else would i be here?' 'This is the Employment Office, not the Unemployment office'" • Julia - “The system which had imprisoned her had also, somehow, protected er.” • Hohenschönhausen - translates to 'High beautiful house' yet it was "“a prison for political prisoners—it was the innermost security installation in a secured area within a walled-off country; it was another blank on the map” • “Have you ever in your life heard such a ridiculous story? Can you believe they swallowed that?’ ” - Miriam. They did not believe she could have made it over the Wall, but initially they did believe her crazy story about the "underground organisation" that assisted her • They believe that the actions taken amongst the stasi regime was humane • 'the two of you, violator and victim (collaborator! violin!), are linked, forever perhaps, by the obscenityy of what has been revealed to you, by the sad knowledge of what people are capable of.
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