A people under suspicion - the state security of the GDR

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Movie
Original title A people under suspicion - the state security of the GDR
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 40 minutes
Rod
Director Franziska Schlotterer
script Franziska Schlotterer, Frank Drauschke
production Steffen Gronowski
camera Holger Braune
cut Marco Bölke

A people under suspicion - The State Security of the GDR is a German, 40-minute documentary and educational film by director Franziska Schlotterer from 2010. The film was published on behalf of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service (BStU) and is used as training material for Pupils from the 9th grade and intended as political educational material for young people.

action

The film essentially deals with the Ministry for State Security of the former German Democratic Republic , or Stasi for short, and the question of what exactly it was. It also explains how and where the Stasi worked and the importance it for the SED - dictatorship had. The reporter Malin Büttner clarifies these and other questions in an interview with the historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk . The scenes are also historical places. The film is less about structural descriptions or stories of perpetrators than about the effects of the Stasi procedure on those affected. Contemporary witnesses, including Dörte Bender, Christian Halbrock , Horst Jänichen, Ulrike Poppe and Bernd Stracke, are interviewed and describe their experiences with the State Security. They report how they were persecuted and spied on and tell their experiences during arrest and imprisonment.

background

Lack of knowledge about the Stasi - found in a survey among young people - was the motivation for the BStU to commission this film.

publication

The premiere and press screening of the film took place on January 11, 2010 in the Zeughauskino of the German Historical Museum . Another public demonstration took place on January 16, 2010 as part of the BStU's citizens' festival.

On March 3rd and 8th, 2010, the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records ( BStU ) and the State Institute for School and Media Berlin-Brandenburg ( LISUM ) organized a film screening in Potsdam and Berlin, at which more than 100 schoolchildren in grades 9 to 13 participated. This event was part of the LISUM film series "The GDR in Film". Afterwards, the students were able to talk to the Federal Commissioner Marianne Birthler, the Commissioner of the State of Brandenburg to deal with the consequences of the communist dictatorship, Ulrike Poppe (contributor), the director of the film, Franziska Schlotterer , and the historian and research project manager at the BStU, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (contributor) discuss.

The BStU offers the film on DVD for a nominal fee. It can be used freely in political education.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Frank Drauschke: "A people under suspicion - The State Security of the GDR" . In: Facts & Files, Historical Research Institute Berlin . Retrieved January 12, 2010.
  2. ↑ Thomas Loy: The Stasi - what was that? . In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 12, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2010.
  3. ↑ "A people under suspicion - The State Security of the GDR". February 25, 2010, accessed on May 21, 2018 (press release by the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records (BStU); date information / film screening and discussion).

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