http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/stasi Questions tagged with 'stasi' at Ask MetaFilter. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:50:11 -0800 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:50:11 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/137624/Are%2Dthere%2Dany%2Dexamples%2Dof%2DEast%2DGerman%2Dwifes%2Dinforming%2Don%2Dtheir%2Dhusbands%2Dfor%2DStasi In a critique of <i>Das Leben der Anderen</i> (<i>The Lives of Others</i>) Slavoj Žižek asserts that "in all known cases of a married couple where a spouse betrayed a partner, it was always a man who became an informant." Famously, Ulrich Mühe, star of <i>Das Leben der Anderen</i>, asserted that his ex-wife spied on him for Stasi, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1558608/Ulrich-Muhe.html">though both the ex-wife and her supposed Stasi superior denied this</a>. Other than that case, are there any examples of East German wifes informing on their husbands for Stasi? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2009:site.137624 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:50:11 -0800 DDR EastGermany Germany history informants SlavojZizek spies spying Stasi UlrichMuhe Zizek Kattullus http://ask.metafilter.com/70167/East%2DGermany%2Dafter%2Dthe%2Dwall%2Dfell What was East Germany like immediately after the Wall fell? (<i>Lives of Others</i> spoiler alert) What did people in East Germany do in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall? (And does the fall of the wall equate with the fall of the GDR government?) Can you recommend a book (preferably nonfiction) on the subject? And what's it like there now--is it assimilated?<br> <br> Near the end of <i>The Lives of Others</i> we see some Stasi bureaucrats using steam to open letters. One of them hears on the radio that the wall has fallen. They arise from their desks and calming walk out. Would they have come back to work? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.70167 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:36:42 -0800 berlinwall communism eastgermany stasi neuron