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	Stasiland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stasiland has been lauded for powerfully using literary techniques in the writing of non-fiction, and variously described as ‘a dark, stylish narrative’ (The Age Book of the Year Awards) and ‘a masterpiece of investigative reporting’ (Sunday Times).
		Stasiland is being developed for the stage by The National Theatre in London.
		Stasiland is a moving investigation of extraordinary human conscience and courage in the face of totalitarianism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stasiland (278 words)

	Amazon.ca: Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall: Books: Anna Funder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Funder puts herself into the history that she attempts to record, and exposes the author of non-fiction as a mediator between the history as recorded and the history as told.
		Here Stasiland is a vehicle for subjective, personal histories to be heard, to accumulate, to inter-relate and therefore giving us a picture of what it is to wield power in the Orwellian GDR and what it is to live as a subject of the terrifying totalitarian apparatus.
		Stasiland is written in a style like a personal journal - the stories told by ex-GDR citizens to the author are often prefaced with descriptions of where she had coffee before they met, and followed by what she thought afterwards while walking home.
	www.amazon.ca /Stasiland-True-Stories-Behind-Berlin/dp/1862075808 (2355 words)

	STASI
		Stasiland takes us on a grim journey into a country in which the ratio of watchers to watched was even higher than that of the Soviets under communism.
		Stasiland is an appealing blend of investigative and reflective reporting, with the narrative drive of powerful human-interest stories.
		Stasiland is the product of a journalistic hunger, propelled by her TV-station bosses, who told Funder the "Ossis" (East Germans) were nothing more than complainers, and that 40 years of Communist rule were a historical episode of no lasting importance.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /081203.html (12365 words)

	Writers Festival News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stasiland is Funder's powerful account of the time in Germany's history when its capital city was split in half, and fear and coercion silenced dissenters in the communist East.
		Stasiland is one of those special novels that you can't put a label on.
		Stasiland has now been released in a unified Germany and is being marketed as an outsider's view of the country's controversial history.
	www.writersfestival.uts.edu.au /2004/events/stasiland.html (501 words)

	Stasiland - Anna Funder - East Germany - Worldpress.org
		After placing an advertisement in a local paper, she was flooded with responses from ex-Stasi officers who, eager to tell their stories, came out of the woodwork to describe the bizarre methods the Stasi used to track their victims.
		Funder’s careful portraits of the people she meets from “Stasiland” shine a dazzling light on one of the world’s most paranoid and secretive regimes, and its effects on contemporary German society.
		Nominated for several literary prizes in her native Australia, Stasiland is a lyrical and quirky examination of a country gone wrong.
	www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=1311&dont=yes (2321 words)

	What is she reading?: Stasiland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The events documented Stasiland were happening right up until the wall came down - in 1989.
		She now pins her hopes on the so called 'puzzle women' who piece together the hastily shredded documents that relate to the Stasi's former subjects of interest, in the hope that she can find out what really happened to her husband.
		It is a very moving set of stories that make up Stasiland, it reads very much like a novel, rather than just a dry retelling of the interviews carried out.
	www31.brinkster.com /chimera252/blogger/2004/07/stasiland.asp (501 words)

	STASILAND: TRUE STORIES FROM BEHIND THE BERLIN WALL
		Stasiland is a collection of absurd or pitiable accounts of life under a regime in which, it is estimated, one person in six spied for the secret police.
		Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, by Anna Funder, reveals the legacy of surveillance, repression and paranoia through the personal histories of characters, including the man who painted the line which became the infamous wall.
		Stasiland: stories from behind the Berlin Wall, published by Granta, is her first book.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /stasiland.html (5524 words)

	Stasiland - Anna Funder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Then I read Stasiland and all my fears came rushing back - the scariest thing about this book, is that it’s all true.
		The Stasi would wield this information in underhand ways, ensuring that many people and their families could not get jobs (whilst maintaining there was no unemployment in East Germany) or education, or be able to travel freely – among more unspeakable atrocities.
		Stasiland is nonfiction, yet it reads like a novel.
	www.vibewire.net /3/node/941/print (727 words)

	Text Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stasiland is a lyrical, at times funny account of the courage some people found to withstand the dictatorship, and the consequences for those who collaborated.
		'Stasiland is her brilliant account of this passionate search for a brutal history in the process of being lost, forgotten and destroyed.
		Stasiland is currently being developed for the stage by The National Theatre, London.
	www.textpublishing.com.au /win-item.asp?id=235 (448 words)

	Freezerbox Magazine - The Lost Worlds
		So it is that you don't just browse through the Stasiland's pages on some idiosyncratic tour of present-day, techno-grooving Berlin (as the sexy cover art for the Australian edition might suggest); instead you pass through a netherworld of bad historical memories and the damaged lives that still inhabit it.
		By the end of Stasiland Funder is weighted by the sorrows she has heard and the death of her own mother back in Australia.
		Though there is the vague feeling of Funder self-consciously looking for meaning in these final chapters, a flicker of her narrative control losing confidence, she still delivers a heart-rending denoument: a recognition of other, humbler human secrets, infinitely lighter than the world she submerged herself into.
	www.freezerbox.com /archive/article.asp?id=272 (1256 words)

	Lancette Book nonfiction09 Stasiland - Lancette Journal of the Arts
		True, there seem to be no double- or triple-parked cars as in Paris or Rome, but the grumpy faces of local residents, who appear to resent the presence of foreigners in their midst, make the chaos of those cities preferable.
		Her book recounts her sought out experiences in East Berlin during its first flush of recovery from no longer being cut off from the outside world by the now mostly defunct Berlin Wall.
		She is now expecting her second child, and working on a novel set in Sidney.
	www.lancetteer.ca /book_nonfiction09.htm (2258 words)

	Anna Funder : Stasiland : book reviews : spike magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In her approach to writing Stasiland, Funder also pieces together a portrait of life in the East German state from the personal stories of those who tried to escape it by crossing the Wall, those who fell victim to the secret police and those whose relatives never returned from the Stasi's interrogation cells.
		The sense of Funder's own widening interest and accumulation of knowledge carries the narrative forward effortlessly, whilst her prose is almost stark in its simplicity, as if to ensure that she does not interfere with the recounting of the stories she has been told.
		Powered by Funder's precise prose, Stasiland is an essential insight into the totalitarian regime and, whether intended or not, is also a warning about the manipulation of truth, the erosion of civil liberties and the consequences of perpetual surveillance.
	www.spikemagazine.com /0804stasiland.php (1121 words)

	Amazon.com: Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall: Books: Anna Funder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stasiland is the former East Germany, a country where the Stasi, the secret police, spied on every inhabitant, kept files on everybody, and seemed all-powerful.
		Anna Funder's Stasiland gives the reader an honest, sometimes brutal,sometimes humorous and always revealing look at what it was like to live in East Germany and particularly East Berlin under the iron fist of the red slave masters in Moscow.
		Stasiland displays to the world in the most clearest of terms what President Reagan once called an "evil empire." Stasiland is a liberal's nightmare and a conservative's justification, but most of all, it is the truth and that is more valuable than all else.
	www.amazon.com /Stasiland-True-Stories-Behind-Berlin/dp/1862075808 (2963 words)

	German Joys: German Joys Mini-Review: Stasiland
		Just reading Stasiland, a 2003 book by Anna Fuller, an Australian journalist and recovering lawyer who traveled through East Germany interviewing people who had something to do with the East German security state, either as members or as persecutees of the Stasi (the abbreviation for the East German Ministry of State Security).
		Stasiland is loosely episodic and somewhat memoir-like, so it takes a little while to build up momentum.
		Stasiland is by turns funny, thoughtful and moving, and well worth a read.
	andrewhammel.typepad.com /german_joys/2006/01/a_german_joys_m.html (1361 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Anna Funder - Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall at Epinions.com
		Funder's journey through Stasiland uncovers stories of careers destroyed, families broken, lives ruined by state-sponsored nastiness.
		Among the brave, reluctant heroes who railed against this tyranny was Miriam, a woman whose break for freedom put her in prison while still a teenager.
		Yet the heartening message from Stasiland is that even as cracks started to appear in the monolith, this massive intelligence machine failed to see the writing on the Wall.
	www.epinions.com /content_277577764484 (664 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Stasiland: Books: Anna Funder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The subject matter of 'Stasiland' is fascinating: it shows how the East German Secret Police virtually went to war against its own populace.
		This is a totally different book to any that a man would write - and it is totally refreshing and good for that.
		The subject matter is certainly loaded with potential, especially given the human trauma associated with the greatest sociological experiment in European history.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Stasiland-Anna-Funder/dp/1862075808 (1878 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall: Books: Anna Funder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Reading it was a sobering experience, showing me how little my studies had taught me about the recent events to have hammered and fashioned the Germanic character, and how far away I was from truly appreciating the barriers I would have to break down in order even to begin to understand.
		Neither edition, I suspect, probed deeper than Gerlinde and Bettina's cycling tour through the countryside to the Leipzig Youth Hostel, or nostalgia for the Trabi, smiling shots of succesful escapees by their vehicles, and 'DDR technology'.
		Reading it was a sobering experience, showing me how little my studies had taught me about the recent events to have hammered and changed the Germanic character, and how far away I was from truly appreciating the barriers I would have to break down in order to even begin to understand.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Stasiland-Stories-Behind-Berlin-Wall/dp/1862076553 (1351 words)

	Old Rottenhat: Stasiland - Anna Funder
		All the things that already seem so distant in time and space, but were still going on while we were buying records, and sitting exams, and getting drunk, just a few hours away.
		Stasiland is an extraordinary book that I thoroughly recommend.
		Funder doesn't shy away from partially implicating aspects of the German national psyche for the nature of the East German state; the Prussian love of order, rules and stability can easily be warped into a justification for totalitarianism.
	oldrottenhat.typepad.com /oldrottenhat/2005/06/stasiland_anna_.html (892 words)

	Correspondents Report - Stasiland: Life behind the Berlin Wall
		It tells the story of life behind the Berlin Wall under the watchful and punishing eyes of the East German secret police — the Stasi.
		There are groups of, increasingly the older men, who do meet and they are alleged to do things like cut the brake leads of people who continued to speak out about the regime, or they deliver unwanted pornography to their houses to embarrass them, or they
		I mean, I'm hoping there are some real genuine laughs in the book, but they're probably at my narrator's expense, at my expense, but the absurdities of history are very real.
	www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2004/s1135715.htm (1210 words)

	Amazon.com: Stasiland: Books: Anna Funder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
		By reading this ecclectic biography collage you will learn about German cultural values, GDR political and idiological history, the Stasi (one of the most feared secret police organizations).
		Stasiland also shows how much the Stasi archives ruined many lives in former East Germany.
	www.amazon.com /Stasiland-Anna-Funder/dp/1862076553 (1024 words)

	Adventures in Stasiland \| Workers' Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		That’s important to remember because much of the left was deeply ambivalent about the routing of Eastern European “communism” (one little sect, Socialist Action, currently with a role as Ken Livingstone’s bag carriers, even described the events as the “biggest defeat for the working class since the Second World War”).
		This book, Stasiland, gave me a little reminder.
		It’s easy to read, and might help anyone trying to get a picture of the reality of life in Eastern Europe under Stalinism to understand the scale of the problem.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/view/3024 (838 words)

	Green Left - History in a vacuum
		Anna Funder’s Stasiland is well written, lyrical and evocative.
		It is journalistic in style, and does not pretend to be a history.
		For example, what has happened to the former GDR since unification is largely missing from Stasiland, apart from some references to life being a bit harder.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2005/611/35577 (1023 words)

	Anna Funder's 'Stasiland' reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird
		Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Anna Funder’s ‘Stasiland: Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall’ is a fascinating series of accounts of life in the former German Democratic Republic.
		Written like a novel, the book opens with Funder, hungover from a night of drinking, travelling to the Runde Ecke, a Stasi museum in Leipzig contained in a former Stasi building.
		There are gruesome stories in ‘Stasiland’ from the victims, heartrending tales such as that of a mother separated from her dangerously ill baby who was sent to a West Berlin hospital around the time the city became divided.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/stasiland.html (2444 words)

	Stasiland
		Stasiland : Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
		Stasiland is a powerful account of the courage of those who withstood the dictatorship and the consequences for those who collaborated: from Miriam, a 16-year-old who failed a desperate attempt to scale the Wall, to an ex-Stasi cartographer living in an apartment lined with propaganda.
		This is a lyrical and gripping debut novel.
	www.globecorner.com /t/t31/15980.php (155 words)

	First Person - First Person - 12/05/2003: Stasiland
		First Person - First Person - 12/05/2003: Stasiland
		This book assembles extraordinary stories of bravery and betrayal, of suffering and stoicism, and of personal and national identity.
		Stasiland is a brilliant debut, a remarkable book of travel, history and biography.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/lm/stories/s908377.htm (313 words)

	David Byrne Journal: 11.9.04: "Stasiland", "I (heart) Huckabees", etc.
		David Byrne Journal: 11.9.04: "Stasiland", "I (heart) Huckabees", etc.
		Been reading Stasiland, a book by an Australian journalist stationed in former East Germany who investigates personal stories involving the notorious agency.
		Her perceptions are wonderful — she spots the bizarre and oppressive not only in the detaining, spying on individuals and unexplained deaths, but in things like a weird sexless popular dance (the Lipsi) that the government attempted to insert into popular culture as a kind of immunization against Elvis' rock and roll gyrations.
	journal.davidbyrne.com /2004/11/11904_stasiland.html (398 words)

	The Da Shan Dynasty part 3: Stasiland \| Watching China
		It always used to be really good fun in left-wing circles to sit around speculating about who, come the revolution, should be among the first to be put up against the wall and shot.
		In Stasiland - Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall, the Australian writer Anna Funder has this to say:
		The Stasi was the internal army by which the government kept control.
	www.watchingchina.com /node/88 (3043 words)

	Amazon.ca: Stasiland: Books: Anna Funder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The demonstrators, in shock, obediently pulled their cards from their wallets.
		Given its subject matter Stasiland could easily have become, in the hands of a lesser writer, a worthy but grim effort with a core-readership of insomniacs who specialise in dead Stalinist states.
		But from the outset, Funder’s acute awareness of the absurdity that often accompanies the worst tyrannies, saves the book from that.
	www.amazon.ca /Stasiland-Anna-Funder/dp/1862076553 (1020 words)

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