![]() Stasiland has been published in sixty nine countries and translated into a dozen languages. Giles MacDonogh wrote in The Guardian that the culture of informants and moral capitulations "comes wonderfully to life in Funder's racy account". Reception Ĭhris Mitchell of Spike Magazine called it "an essential insight into the totalitarian regime". She used classified ads to reach former members of the Stasi and anti-Stasi organizations and interviewed them extensively. It tells the story of what it was like to work for the Stasi, and describes how those who did so now come to terms, or do not, with their pasts.įunder, an Australian, found that Germans often resorted to stereotypes in describing the Ossis, the German nickname for those who lived in East Germany, dismissing questions about civil resistance. Stasiland by Anna Funder is a book first published in Australia by Text Publishing in 2002 about individuals who resisted the East German regime, and others who worked for its secret police, the Stasi. ![]()
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