Archival Materials

Report of meeting with IMS “David Menzer,” dated November 8, 1980, BArch MfS AIM 7423/91 Beifügung Bd. 1, 78–79.

Assignment document for IMS “David Menzer,” dated December 16, 1980, BArch, MfS AIM 7423/91 Beifügung Bd. 1, 135–36.

Report of meeting with IMS “David Menzer,” dated February 17, 1981, BArch MfS AIM 7423/91 Beifügung Bd. 1, 160–61.

Report of meeting with IMS “David Menzer,” March 3, 1981, BArch MfS AIM 7423/91 Beifügung Bd. 1, 171–72.

Report by IM “David Menzer” on the Berlin punk group “Rosa Extra,” dated November 11, 1981, BArch MfS AIM 7423/91 Beifügung Bd. 4, 92–94.

Report by IMB “Fritz Müller” on [name redacted] arrest and reaction to November 4, 1983, dated November 11, 1983, BArch MfS AIM 7423/91 Beifügung Bd. 12, 1–2.

Meeting report by IMS “Dölbl,” dated November 2, 1976, BArch MfS AOP 3764/89, Bd.1, 231–40.

File note dated May 25, 1977, BArch MfS AOP 3764/89, Bd.2, 226.

Source from IM “Anna Harloff,” dated December 2, 1978, BArch MfS AOP 3764/89, Bd.3, 362–63.

Letter from Kolbe to Fühmann, dated September 14, 1984, BArch MfS AOP 3764/89, Bd. 5, 264.

Report on meeting with IMV “Frieda,” dated December 16, 1976, BArch MfS AOP 25507/91, Bd. 12.

Summary report on OV “Diversant” (Stefan Heym), dated April 26, 1977, BArch MfS AOP 1066/91, Bd. 1.

Summary report on OV “Diversant” (Stefan Heym), dated November 9, 1977, MfS AOP 25507/91, Bd. 30.

Undated report. Likely 1977 or 1978. BArch MfS ZAIG 4462.

Report on a visit by Stefan Heym to Stockholm, dated September 23, 1980, BArch MfS AOP 26320/91, Bd. 18 Beifügung.

Report on a conversation with Uwe Kolbe, dated September 16, 1975. BArch MfS 1082/91, Bd. 7, 11–13.

Report on a further conversation with Uwe Kolbe, dated December 8, 1975, BArch MfS 1082/91, Bd. 7, 19–21.

Information report on reading at “Haus der jungen Talente,” dated March 13, 1975, BArch MfS 1082/91, Bd. 7, 3–4.

Investigation report on Uwe Kolbe, September 19, 1975, BArch MfS 1082/91, Bd. 7, 6–7.

Report by “Werner Weber” on Uwe Kolbe, dated September 22, 1981, BArch MfS AP Nr. 10820/92, 154–59.

Information on the freelance writer Uwe Kolbe, dated March 18, 1982, BArch MfS AP 10820/92, 166.

Memo dated April 30, 1982, BArch MfS AOP 1082/91, Bd.10, 24.

Review of operative information relating to Uwe Kolbe’s publication of a so-called “Machwerk” by Oberstleutnant Gröger (in OV “Poet”), dated May 4, 1982, BArch MfS AOP 1082/91, Bd.10, 28–29.

Information on the young poet Uwe Kolbe, dated May 11, 1982, BArch MfS AP 10820/92, 56–58.

Information dated May 18, 1982, BArch MfS AP 10820/92, 62–63.

Report by IMB “Fritz Müller” on a follow-up meeting of the “Zersammlung,” dated May 3, 1984, BArch MfS AOP 1082/91, Bd. 1 (OV “Poet”), 210–11.

Declaration read in the Gethsemane-Kirche Berlin on February 4, 1988, BArch MfS HA II Nr. 16894, 8–9.

Letter from Uwe Kolbe to Prof. Heinz Werner, February 5, 1988, BArch MfS HA II Nr. 16894, 7.

Memorandum from Oberstleutnant Scholz to Gen. Oberst Schenk, dated February 9, 1988, BArch MfS HA II Nr. 16894, 5.

Information on Uwe Kolbe’s participation in “hostile-negative activities” [undated, February 1988], BArch MfS HA II Nr. 16894, 6.

Report on an interview with Uwe Kolbe on “Kennzeichen D” on March 9, 1988, dated March 11, 1988, BArch MfS AP Nr. 10820/92, 184–85.

Transcript (GDR State Committee for Radio) of ZDF interview with Uwe Kolbe, moderated by Dirk Sager, “Der harte Kurs der SED – DDR-Innenpolitik in der Sackgasse” (The SED’s hard course – GDR domestic politics at a dead end), dated March 10, 1988, BArch MfS HA XX/9 Nr. 1523, 153–55.

“Der Dissident,” original typescript in StAufarb, AuL, Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, 43-I.

Opening report of OV “Bühne” (Krolkiewicz), dated June 28, 1984, 7–12, copy in StAufarb AuL, Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, 43-II.

Report by Oberstleutnant Fischer and Major Keil on the conspirative search of Krolkiewicz’s apartment, dated July 5, 1984, 85–86. Copy in StAuf­arb AuL, Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, 43-II.

Interrogation of Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, transcript dated July 9, 1984, 105–17 (112), copy in StAufarb, AuL, Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, 43-II.

Report on Krolkiewicz’s reading at the “Spartakus” club in Potsdam, dated July 10, 1984, 166–72, copy in StAufarb AuL, Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, 43-II.

Interrogation of Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, transcript dated July 10, 1984, 118–23 (123), copy in StAufarb, AuL, Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, 43-II.

Interrogation of Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, transcript dated August 29, 1984, 125–32 (129), copy in StAufarb, AuL, Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, 43-II.

Interrogation of Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, transcript dated September 20, 1984, 146–51 (148), copy in StAufarb, AuL, Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, 43-II.

“Gespräch mit Ralf Günter Krolkiewicz am 02. August 2004,” in StAufarb AuL, Ralf-Günter Krolkiewicz, 43–I.

“Bericht des IM ‘David Menzer,’” in Sprachzeiten: Der Literarische Salon von Ekke Maaß. Eine Dokumentation von 1978 bis 2016, ed. Peter Böthig (Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2017), 94–97.

Opening report of Operativer Vorgang ‘Dichter,’” February 9, 1982, BArch MfS BV Erfurt AOP 1251/83, Bd.1, 23–30.

Evaluation of literary works by Christa Moog by IM without code name, dated December 2, 1982, BArch MfS BV Erfurt AOP 1251/83 Bd. 2, 110–11.

Report by IM “David Menzer” on an exhibition in Magdeburg [host’s name redacted], dated December 8, 1982, BArch MfS AIM 7423/91 Beifügung Bd. 2, 48–49.

Extract from a report by IMB “David Menzer” undated, BArch MfS BV Erfurt AOP 1753/86, Bd. 2, 46.

Information about the liquidisation of a private gallery in Erfurt, dated April 8, 1981, BArch MfS BV Erfurt AOP 1753/86 Bd. 2, 90–91.

Information from “David Menzer” about a report by Gabriele Kachold, “dabeisein und nicht schweigen,” in OV Toxin, dated April 14, 1981, BArch MfS BV Erfurt AOP 1753/86, Bd. 2, 106.

Report by IMB “David Menzer” about the “Galerie im Flur,” Erfurt, dated May 6, 1981, BArch MfS BV Erfurt AOP 1753/86, Bd. 2, 157–58.

Report by IM “Lutz Müller” in OV “Toxin,” dated September 10, 1982, BArch MfS BV Erfurt AOP 1753/86, Bd 2, 360–61. Document dated October 29, 1982.

Report by IMB “Fritz Müller” on an exhibition and two events in a Berlin apartment [name of host redacted], dated December 12, 1983, BArch MfS AOP 1753/86 Bd. 4, 8–9.

Gabriele Stötzer, “Dabeisein und nicht Schweigen,” undated, 1–30 (1). Copy in StAufarb AuL, Gabriele Stötzer, 78/Band IV.

Gabriele Stötzer, Galerie im Flur – Protokolle 1981, StAufarb AuL Gabriele Stötzer, 78/Bd. I.

Letter from Gabriele Stötzer to Joachim Walther, January 9, 2002, StAufarb AuL Gabriele Stötzer, 78/Bd. I.

Letter from Bernd Wagner to Hermann Kant, dated June 17, 1983, BArch MfS AP Nr. 36564/92, 60–61.

Extract from daily report of BV Leipzig, Abt. XX on Wagner’s reading in Leipzig, dated September 7, 1984, BArch MfS AP Nr. 36564/92, 139.

Summary report on Wagner’s reading in Leipzig by Oberstleutnant Wallner, dated September 11, 1984, BArch MfS AP Nr. 36564/92, 144–45.

Letter from Bernd Wagner to Erich Mielke, dated January 28, 1985, BArch MfS AP Nr. 36564/92, 159–60.

Report by IME “Heinrich, dated February 2, 1975, BArch MfS AOP 12438/83, Bd.1, 47–49.

Summary report by IM “Vera” on the development of her contact with Wegner and Schlesinger since early February 1976 (OV “Schreiberling”), dated March 26, 1976, BArch MfS, AOP 12438/83, Bd.1, 103–10.

Information about Klaus Schlesinger and Bettina Wegner in OV “Schreiberling,” dated October 2, 1976, BArch MfS AOP 12438/83, Bd.1, 237–38.

Report by IMF “André,” in OV “Schreiberling,” dated October 25, 1976, BArch MfS AOP 12438/83, Bd.1, 249–50.

Report by IME “Vera” on Bettina Wegner-Schlesinger (OV “Schreiberling”), dated February 9, 1977, BArch MfS AOP 12438/83, Bd. 2, 66–68.

Report by IME “Heinrich” on event with Bettina Wegner in the “Allende-Klub” on June 22, 1977, dated June 29, 1977 in OV “Schreiberling,” BArch MfS AOP 12438/83, Bd.2, 260–61.

Report by IM “Hermann Schneider,” dated August 4, 1977, BArch MfS AOP 12438/83, Bd.3, 30–33.

Report by IM “Karl,” in OV “Schreiberling,” dated December 8, 1976, BArch MfS AOP 12438/83, Bd.1, 267–75.

Report by IM “Vera,” in OV ‘Schreiberling’, dated October 15, 1976, BArch MfS AOP 12438/83 Bd.1, 239–43.

Plan for long-term political-operative “Zersetzung” measures in OV “Schrei­berling” and other focus procedures of department XX/7, dated January 18, 1978, BArch MfS AOP 12438/83, Bd. 4, 34–41.

Additions to the Aufbau Verlag edition of Christa Wolf’s “Kassandra,” no date, BArch Archiv der Außenstelle Magdeburg, Abt. XX 3748, 11.

Assessment of the text “Kassandra” by Christa Wolf, dated June 4, 1983, BArch MfS Teilablage A 123/76, Bd. 6, 225–26.