Rainer Dellmuth

Rainer Dellmuth

Rainer Dellmuth (born July 20, 1948 in Berlin-Köpenick ) is a former GDR opponent, today a book author, actor and speaker for political education in schools as well as a lecture traveler.

Time in the GDR until expatriation

As early as the age of eighteen, Rainer Dellmuth was targeted by the Ministry for State Security (MfS) because of “inflammatory statements” . From June 1967 onwards, an operational case with the code name “apprentice” was created for him at the Stasi . A month later, the apprentice of book and flexographic printing was arrested for the first time for so-called “attempted escape from the republic ” and “ state-endangering agitation ” and in December 1967 he was sentenced to one year in prison. After his release, he finished his apprenticeship and attended the Alexander von Humboldt High School in Köpenick to catch up on his Abitur. His school and professional plans were finally thwarted by the MfS in 1971 as a result of his new arrest for "attempting to cross the border illegally in a particularly difficult case". In November 1972 he was expelled to the Federal Republic of Germany .

1967–1968: Pretrial detention center (UHA) Gera / district administration Gera of the MfS, UHA Berlin Keibelstraße , penal institution (StVA) Rummelsburg

1971–1972: Pankow remand prison / Berlin district administration of the MfS, Rummelsburg penal institution, StVA Cottbus, UHA Karl-Marx-Stadt / Karl-Marx-Stadt district administration (today: Chemnitz ) of the MfS

Time in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1972

He has lived in West Berlin since his expatriation from the GDR . After working as a proofreader in various printing and publishing houses and in his own company, he began working in the public service in 1986 and passed the exam as a nurse at the Evangelical Forest Hospital in Spandau .

Rainer Dellmuth has become known since the 80s for his acting participation in various films and TV series for young people. Dellmuth lives in Berlin and Constance .

Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship

As a freelancer at the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial , he has been a visitor advisor since 1997 in order not to let the GDR past be forgotten and the fate of individual Stasi victims and the surveillance and intimidation methods systematically developed and practiced by the Ministry for State Security over 40 years to remember. At the end of the 1990s he wrote down memories of his life in the GDR and his imprisonment in his book Excursions in the Grotewohl Express .

Since 2000, Rainer Dellmuth has been giving lectures as a contemporary witness of the SED dictatorship in Germany, Austria and Switzerland at secondary schools and universities.

Filmography

• 1975 The schizophrenic life of the poet Alexander March
• 1982 Wild Clique ; Direction: Hannelore Conradsen and Dieter Köster
• 1983 Rushing Life ; Direction: Hannelore Conradsen and Dieter Köster
• 1984 Back from Hollywood (film from the series of the youth series Denkste )
• 1992 Contributions to the program Moskito - Nothing stands out better in the SFB
• 1993 The show behind the show - International radio exhibition in Berlin - Documentation; Director: Dieter Köster
• 1995 Very personal: Wolfgang Lippert - Documentation about two lives of former GDR citizens.
• 1999 Whoever says has more out of life - The Documentary; Direction: Hannelore Conradsen and Dieter Köster
• 2008 The bleached happiness - feature film by Svenne & Dieter Köster

Publications

• Rainer Dellmuth: Excursions on the Grotewohl Express . Anita Tykve Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-925434-93-3 .

literature

• Bernd Kuhlmann: Prisons on rails - traveling with the Grotewohl Express . Traffic history sheets , Issue 1/2006, ISSN  0232-9042 .
• Historical-literary magazine of the citizens' committee “15. January eV ". In: Horch und Guck , Heft 21, Berlin 1997.
• Thomas Kierok: Wall stories - from the madness of life . Braun Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-3-03768-040-7

Web links

• Rainer Dellmuth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography on the memorial site