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adequate/ideal reader 35, 148–9, 153, 156, 176, 181–2, 183, 187, 194
adequate listener 155
inadequate reader 159
adequate witness 135, 137, 139, 142, 148
agency 25, 26, 34, 35, 37, 39, 52, 88–9, 104, 109, 112–13, 116–17, 118, 124, 131, 142–3, 166, 168, 184–5
Eigen-Sinn 111–12
Handlungsräume (spaces for agency) 111, 124, 129–30
looking back 35, 105, 113, 119, 125, 134, 186–7, 193
open confrontation 15, 60, 104, 105, 100, 114, 115–23, 133, 142, 185–6
see also secrecy, withholding knowledge
see also trust, mobilising trust, sharing knowledge, trust as resistance
writing as resistance 132–43
Akademie der Künste 30, 31
Alighieri, Dante
The Divine Comedy 165–6
Anderson, Sascha 9, 22, 30, 31, 51, 57–8, 65, 73–4, 79–80, 84, 95, 97, 99–100, 115–16, 126, 139–40, 168, 190, 191
antifascism 2–3, 169–70, 177
Archiv unterdrückter Literatur der DDR (Archive of Suppressed Literature in the GDR) 7–8, 16, 27, 33, 154, 194
Die Verschwiegene Bibliothek 33, 154, 194
arrest 27, 33, 53, 60, 61, 62, 65–6, 102, 134, 137, 155, 184, 186
Aufbau (publishing house) 21, 29, 31, 33, 89, 148, 164
authority 35, 128, 131
epistemic authority 60, 94, 131, 135, 137
autobiographical writing 17, 25–6
informants 9, 11–13
victims 8–9, 15, 26, 187–8, 193
Bautzen (prison) 41, 66
Becker, Jurek 21 n.89, 50
Berlin
East 6, 28, 31, 100, 101–2, 140
Weissensee 27, 165–6
West 14, 28, 29, 46, 66, 90, 119
Bentham, Jeremy 107, 114
Bestandsaufnahme 2 148
Biermann, Wolf 79, 109
expatriation (1976) 4, 21, 28, 29, 31, 32, 48, 66, 87, 140, 170, 171, 179–80
Blohm, Frank (pseudonym Per Ketman) 164–5, 168
Geh doch rüber! Begegnungen von Menschen aus Ost und West 164–6, 168–9
Bohley, Bärbel 96, 98
Böthig, Peter
Sprachzeiten 31, 51, 132–3
Brasch, Thomas 27
Braun, Volker 6, 31, 133
Brecht, Bertolt 2
Brüsewitz, Oskar 65
Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Germany) 16, 154
censorship 7–8, 11, 16, 96, 120–1, 123, 137, 148, 153, 154, 164–5, 169, 172, 176, 181, 183
publication ban 30, 149
self-censorship 7–8, 120, 141
church 51–2, 53, 70, 77, 94, 96, 116–17, 120–1, 132, 133, 142
communism see socialism
countersurveillance 10, 35, 59–60, 113–16, 119, 125–7, 144, 184, 186–7, 188
sousveillance 124–5
Dekonspiration (deconspiration) 14, 23, 42, 47, 78, 113
Deleuze, Gilles 106, 114
control society 106, 14, 120
Derrida, Jacques 24, 192–3
Deutsche Welle 168
disciplinary power 107, 109
dissent/dissident literature 4, 5, 8, 9, 15, 24, 45, 62, 67, 70, 72, 76, 102, 125, 148–9, 156–61
Dresden 5, 100, 155, 160
Eagleton, Terry 128, 130
Eco, Umberto 128
Endler, Adolf 163
environmental movement 96, 134
epistemic in/justice 35, 137, 140, 192–4
Erb, Elke 6, 30, 31, 133, 155
Erfurt 5, 32–3, 63, 95, 100, 126–8, 140, 188
Faktor, Jan 6, 58
Felski, Rita 26, 146–7, 174, 182
Foucault, Michel 24, 107, 113–14, 185, 187
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 103, 149
Freie Deutsche Jugend 45, 76
Fuchs, Jürgen 32, 66, 81, 165
Magdalena 20, 188
Vernehmungsprotokolle 138
Fühmann, Franz 6, 23, 30, 31, 61–2, 89, 108, 127, 133, 169
“Gedächtnisprotokoll” (protocol written from memory) 137–9
Geipel, Ines 33, 154
Gethsemanekirche (Gethsemane Church) 102, 121
gossip, see rumour
Gratzik, Paul 84
Greiner, Ulrich 4
Halle 116
Harich, Wolfgang 4
Hauptverwaltung Verlage und Buchhandel (Main Office for Publishing and Book Trade) 7, 148
Haus der Jungen Talente (House of Young Talent) 27, 54, 67, 75
Hermlin, Stephan 62, 76
Heym, Stefan 2, 4, 9, 15, 23, 29, 118, 177–82
Ahasver 15
Collin 15, 29, 36, 177–82
Der König David Bericht 15, 181–2
Lassalle 179, 181
Nachruf 15, 179, 188
Radek 179
Der Winter unsers Mißvergnügens 9, 179–80
Hilbig, Wolfgang 20, 26
history of everyday life 17, 26
Hoffmann, Hans Joachim (Minister for Culture) 31
Hoheneck (prison) 32, 33, 135, 140, 194
Hohenschönhausen (remand prison) 65, 66, 189
home search 53, 109–10
Honecker, Erich 29, 65, 79, 181–2
Honecker, Margot 32
Höpcke, Klaus 122, 149, 181
humour 35, 51–2, 105, 128–32, 143, 151, 165, 185
jokes 130–1, 185
satire 36, 129, 156–61
stereotypes/typifications 130, 132
Hungarian Revolution (1956) 4
infiltration 31, 34, 69–70, 126
Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (unofficial co-worker, i.e., informant) 8, 9, 11–14, 21, 23, 29, 48–9, 61, 70, 72–4, 84, 106, 108, 109, 115, 118–19, 131–2, 155, 163, 167, 168, 174–5, 179–80, 186
family 44–5, 62, 70, 89–91, 190, 192
friends 70, 85–8, 91–3, 191–2
identifying informants 42, 48–60, 98, 116
recruitment 11, 13–14, 23, 29, 31, 32, 34, 39–48, 60, 74–8, 114, 115, 144, 184
interrogation 23, 27, 65, 138–9, 157, 159, 160–1
intuition, see knowledge, heuristic
Jahn, Roland 165
Janka, Walther 178, 180
Jena 32
Johannes R. Becher literary institute 28
June 17, 1953 4
Kahlau, Heinz 76
Kant, Hermann 4, 12, 29, 47, 119–20
“Kennzeichen D” (West German television programme) 121–2
Kerbach, Ralf 100
Kirsch, Sarah 29, 192
Kluge, Alexander 111
knowledge
archival knowledge 21–5, 187–94
constructivism 10, 38, 145, 147–8
direct/embodied experience 34, 35, 62–7, 108, 128, 134–5, 136–8, 184
false knowledge 14, 49–50, 53, 56–7, 58–9, 68, 184
fragmented/uncertain knowledge 13, 14, 37, 39–40, 41–2, 44–5, 48, 49–51, 52, 54–7, 66–7, 68, 81, 107, 112, 116, 120, 131, 184, 186, 190, 193
heuristic 14, 34, 35, 37–68, 75, 76, 104, 108, 110, 117, 175, 184, 193
behaviour as a heuristic 45–6, 49, 52, 53, 55–7, 58–60, 151
clothing as a heuristic 43, 130, 151, 166–7
material gesture as heuristic 76, 79
moral heuristic 52
reputation as heuristic 94–5, 101–4
literature as knowledge 26, 35–6, 97, 98, 100, 144–83, 186–7
humanist intuition 145–6
standard of representation 26, 35, 147, 151, 168, 171, 174, 182–3, 186
power 10–11, 11–12, 25, 184–5, 187
second hand 34, 35, 41, 42, 60–7, 94, 101, 135, 184
shared knowledge/experiences 94, 108, 112, 134 160, 162
unstable knowledge 17, 22, 33, 34, 53, 83, 91, 99, 101, 160
see also secrecy, revelation
see also testimony
see also trust, sharing knowledge
Kolbe, Ulrich (IM “Werner Weber”) 31, 76, 89–91, 92, 97
Kolbe, Uwe 1, 5, 13, 17, 20, 22, 29, 30–1, 42–6, 55–7, 58, 60, 66–7, 74–8, 89–98, 100, 101–4, 108–9, 121–4, 130, 137, 148–9, 156, 163, 164, 190, 191, 193–4
Abschiede und andere Liebesgedichte 30
Bornholm II 31
Der Kaiser ist nackt 30, 96
Die Lüge 31, 193–4
“Die Sache mit V.” 31, 44
Die Situation 31, 44, 57, 67, 75–6, 97
Hineingeboren 5, 30
“Kern meines Romans” 30, 148–9
Renegatentermine 31
Vinetas Archive 31
Krolkiewicz, Ralf-Günter 36, 153–61, 165, 169, 194
“Der Dissident” 156–61
Nirgends ein Feuer mehr 154
Kunert, Günter 150–3, 165, 182
Die Zweite Frau 35–6, 150–3
Erwachsenenspiele 187–8
Kunze, Reiner
Deckname “Lyrik” 20, 187
Leipzig 167–8
Leseland DDR 2
life writing 25–6, 134
lived experience 136
Stasi files as life story/“hostile biography” 24–5
Literaturstreit (literature debate) 4, 16, 145, 150
literary salon 5, 31, 79, 132–3, 142, 162
Loest, Erich
Der Vierte Zensor 20, 120
Der Zorn des Schafes 187
Lüdtke, Alf 111
Maaß, Ekkehard 1, 5, 17, 22, 31, 42, 50–1, 65, 78–82, 97, 107, 117–18, 132–3, 142, 189–90, 191
Magdeburg 5, 99, 133–4
Matthies, Frank-Wolf 66–7, 149
memory 40, 59, 173, 190, 192–4
cultural circuit 19–20, 25
personal 19, 21, 26, 44, 46, 47–8, 51, 137–8
Merker, Paul 178
Mielke, Erich 29, 47, 81, 106, 119–20,
Mikado 5, 23, 29–30, 33, 58, 95, 96–7, 123–4, 162–4, 167–8
Mitteldeutscher Verlag 12, 149
Moog, Christa 1, 5, 13, 17, 22, 23, 31–2, 39–42, 49, 52, 60, 61, 66, 74–8, 98–100, 116–17, 133–4, 190
Aus tausend grünen Spiegeln 32
“Es ist 15 Uhr” 32, 74–5
Die Fans von Union 32
“Die Fete” 32, 98–100
Morgner, Irmtraud 169
Mugay, Peter (IM “Albert”) 89, 91–3, 191
Müller, Heiner 31, 133
myth 15, 36, 169–76, 183
narrative enquiry 17
Negt, Oskar 111
networks 18, 27, 96–7, 106, 116–17
see also trust, personal and professional networks
Neue Zeit (official newspaper of the East German CDU) 92
Öffentlichkeit (publicness) 11, 16, 122, 123, 126, 137, 144, 145, 154, 162
open observation 11, 15–16, 23, 35, 114, 116–18, 144, 179, 184
Operative Personenkontrollen (OPK, operative personal surveillance) 22–3, 89
Operativer Vorgang (OV), operative procedure 22–3, 28, 54, 85, 155–6, 190
oral history 17, 18, 20
panopticon 35, 105, 107–8, 113–14, 176, 184, 187
inverse panopticon 125
panoptic mechanisms 107, 113
paranoia 14, 37, 68, 88–9, 107–8, 110–11, 127, 142, 150, 184, 186
Plenzdorf, Ulrich 28
Poppe, Gerd 98
post-positivism 17, 26
Potsdam 154, 155, 156
Prague Spring (1968) 4, 27, 62
Prenzlauer Berg 5–7, 9, 29, 31, 56, 58, 67, 90, 92, 115, 117, 123, 154
prison 8, 27, 32, 41, 58, 62–6, 128, 135–42, 184, 188, 194
Rathenow, Lutz 11–12, 13–14, 39, 66, 188
referentiality 17, 22, 36, 145–6
resistance see agency
revelation 11, 12–14, 15–16, 26, 35, 116, 126, 128, 142, 159, 184–94
literature as revelation/concealment
cross-border smuggling 36, 164–9
literature written “for the drawer” 7, 26, 35, 150–3, 179, 183
publication in the West 36, 162–3, 168, 177–83
satirical writing 36, 156–61
underground/counter-publics 36, 161–9
use of history and myth 36, 169–76
see also Knowledge, literature as knowledge
see also testimony
see also Dekonspiration
see also open observation
see also recruitment
rumour 14, 16, 18, 23, 29, 51, 53–4, 57, 71, 85, 89–90, 94, 185, 192
Samizdat 26, 27, 33, 97, 123–4, 162
Schädlich, Susanne 192
Schedlinski, Rainer 9
Schlesinger, Klaus 1, 6, 13, 23, 24, 27–9, 53–5, 65, 77, 85–9, 109–12, 115, 117, 127, 131–2, 142, 192
Alte Filme 28
Berliner Geschichten 28
Berliner Traum 28
Michael 28
Von der Schwierigkeiten, ein Westler zu werden 29
secrecy
power 11, 12–13, 185–6
public secret 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 26, 35, 43–4, 49, 59, 66, 67, 105, 120, 130–1, 137, 144, 145, 151, 152, 164, 169, 172, 182–3, 184–94
secret society 13, 185–6
withholding/concealing knowledge 81, 97, 104
see also revelation
Seghers, Anna 2
show trials 4, 177, 178–9, 180
Simmel, Georg 13, 70, 185–186
Simon, Annette 166–7
Sloterdijk, Peter 128, 129
socialism 3–5, 26, 141–2, 171, 174, 177, 179
social reality 101, 131
“Spartacus” youth club (Potsdam) 155
Spiegel, Der 149
Stade, Martin 28
Ständige Vertretung (Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany) 103
Stasi files 8, 9, 11–12, 21–5, 31, 44, 47–8, 51–2, 54–5, 57–8, 59, 65, 69–70, 85, 89, 91–2, 97, 109–10, 115–16, 126–7, 138–9, 140, 187–94
use in fiction 20, 193–4
see also life writing
Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv (Stasi Records Archive) 16, 20–3, 189
Stasiangst (Stasi fear) 109, 124
Stötzer, Gabriele 1, 5, 9, 17, 23, 32–3, 53, 58, 82–3 n.62, 95–6, 100–1, 125–8, 188–9, 194
Die bröckelnde Festung 20, 194
“Dabei sein und nicht schweigen” 32, 135–42, 194
Erfurter Roulette 33
Frauen für Veränderung 33
Galerie im Flur 33, 138
Ich bin die Frau von Gestern 33
Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt 33
Der lange Arm der Stasi 9, 33, 189, 194
zügel los 33
Suhrkamp (publishing house) 30, 156
surveillance 24, 28–9, 33, 35, 36, 58, 69, 70, 76, 99, 105–9, 112, 117–18, 141, 142, 156–7, 159, 163
see also countersurveillance
suspicion 18–19, 23, 33, 76, 85–6, 89, 91, 98, 106, 110, 119, 131, 160
testimony 95–6, 134–40, 143
perpetrator testimony 81, 135
Trolle, Lothar 5, 29, 96, 124, 164
trust 34–5, 106
affective and cognitive dimensions 34, 83–4, 88, 89–91, 93
betrayal (of trust and knowledge) 84, 91, 92, 97, 100–1, 102–4
communities of trust and distrust 34, 35, 71, 78, 104, 112
distrust/mistrust 14, 35, 37, 39, 49–51, 53–4, 55–7, 59, 68, 69–72, 82–3, 85–6, 88–91, 93, 97, 99, 109, 112, 142, 136, 144, 160, 184
families 41–2, 44, 62–4, 71–2, 89–91
friendship 84, 85–7, 89, 91–2, 94–5, 96–7, 98–100
habitual trust 71–2
interpersonal trust 82, 83–4, 88, 92, 100, 112
low trust society 2, 14, 56, 69–70
mobilising trust/strategic trust 78–82, 104
performative trust 34, 72–8, 79–80, 84, 85, 104
personal and professional networks 34, 42, 51, 52–3, 61–2, 71–2, 86, 93–104, 112, 115–16, 117, 142–3, 150, 184, 186
power 34, 70–1
regimes of trust and distrust 34, 71, 78, 104
sharing knowledge 2, 6, 10, 14, 16, 34–5, 37, 42, 47, 51, 63–6, 68, 71–2, 74, 78, 80–1, 86–7, 94–5, 101–3, 104, 115–16, 144, 185
trustworthiness 19, 34, 77–8, 80, 84, 89, 91, 93, 94, 97, 100–4, 112
trust as resistance 72, 88, 142–3
unofficial/underground culture 5, 31, 32–3, 35, 36, 53, 94, 96–7, 100, 118, 123–8, 132–4, 154–5, 161–2, 164, 183, 186, 193
U-Haft (Untersuchungshaft, Stasi custody/remand prison) 32, 63, 67, 135, 138–9
Voigt, Fritz-Georg 21, 48
Wagner, Bernd 1, 5, 13–14, 17, 20, 22, 36, 46–8, 55, 57–60, 94–7, 119–20, 124, 163–9, 190
Der Griff ins Leere 30
Ich will nicht nach Österreich 30
Paradies 30
Reise im Kopf 30
Die Sintflut in Sachsen 30
Verlassene Werke 20 n.89, 30
“Wie Tute bis zum HSV durchkam” 164–9
Die Wut im Koffer 30, 59–60, 185, 190–1, 193
Walther, Joachim 8, 33, 140, 154
Wegner, Bettina 1, 6, 17, 27–9, 49–50, 51–5, 65, 77, 85–9, 110, 112–13, 117–19, 130–1, 142, 191, 192
Werner, Heinz 102–4, 121
West Germany 15–16, 149, 153, 180, 182
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) 168
Wieckenberg, Ernst-Pieter 14–15
Wiens, Maja 84
Wiens, Paul 72–3
Wolf, Christa 4, 6, 12, 15, 23, 125, 133, 140–2, 145, 169–76
Ein Tag im Jahr 32, 140–1, 170, 171
Kassandra 15, 36, 169–76
Medea. Stimmen 171, 175
Was bleibt 4, 15, 32, 141–2, 145, 150, 170
Wolf, Gerhard 6, 31, 33, 133
Wollenberger (Lengsfeld), Vera 192
Writers’ Union 12, 28, 29, 94, 119–20, 149, 154
expulsions (1979) 4, 29, 181
Zersetzung (dissolution, i.e., of oppositional groups) 6, 8, 24, 27–8, 34, 35, 54, 55, 71, 85, 104, 127, 184