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StASi. Die AuSStellung
zur DDr-StAAtSSiCHerHeit
Erich Mielke at a sports event by the Sportvereinigung Dynamo, 1970 (montage) (detail) BStU
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) maintained
its position of power by means of a huge
security apparatus. One cornerstone of this system
was the Ministry for State Security (MfS), or »Stasi«.
Permanent exhibition
STASI: The Exhibition on GDR State Security
Information about the structures and effects of the
state security service and insights into the lives of
affected individuals
temporary exhibition
Football for the Stasi: The Berlin football club
Dynamo
The ideological function of the football club and
surveillance of it by GDR secret police
from 6.30 pm � hourly
Talk (in German)
State Security and the Location’s History
9.00 pm
Reading (in German)
»Schattenfrauen«. (»Shadow Women«) – A
Rendezvous at the Baltic Sea and the Stasi
Past Reinhild Solf reads from her novel »Schatten-
frauen« and tells of her encounter with female
political prisoners in the GDR.
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