![]() ![]() Her producer, angry at her repeated suggestions that they should do more about the 'Ossis', complains that his compatriots are 'just a bunch of downtrodden whingers, with a couple of mild-mannered civil-rights activists among them, and only a couple at that'.ĭespite his insistence that she won't find 'the great story of human courage' she's after, Funder places an ad in the personal columns of the Potsdam paper: 'Seeking: former Stasi officers and unofficial collaborators for interview.' By 7.35 the next morning (Germans are early risers), her phone is ringing. ![]() Working for a TV company in Berlin, she realises how uneasy Germany still is about its recent past and how far the Wall still casts its shadow. ![]() Instead, Funder does what few academics could get away with: she describes the innumerable lives that were claimed by the Stasi as though they belonged to real people, not numbers. ![]()
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