Eberhard Schellenberger "Deckname Antenne"

In the organizer's words:

35 years of German unity

Eberhard Schellenberger reads from his book "Deckname Antenne"

German-German coexistence accompanied the Würzburg journalist Eberhard Schellenberger, born in 1957, privately and as a long-time BR reporter throughout his life and became his journalistic "life theme". When he first entered the GDR privately in 1984, the Stasi opened a file of 400 pages on him. He was closely monitored, especially in the course of the negotiations on the town twinning between Würzburg and Suhl. The journalist turned this into the book "Deckname Antenne", published by Echter Verlag in Würzburg. Eberhard Schellenberger offers a multivisual excursion into the German-German past with stories, pictures, sounds and videos. 35 years after the fall of the Wall (1989) and reunification (1990).

When Eberhard Schellenberger and his wife visited a pen pal in private for the first time in 1984, the State Security was hot on the heels of the then BR young journalist. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, two State Security files about Schellenberger emerged. The "Journalist" file in Cottbus on his private travels and the "Antenne" file in Würzburg's twin city Suhl. On 400 pages, he found almost scurrilous things as well as trivialities and trivialities, but also many perfidious things, and it became clear to him that he was often treated like an enemy of the state in the GDR. The Stasi listened in on his phone calls between Suhl and Würzburg and documented them as well as recorded radio broadcasts. During visits to Suhl in the course of the partnership negotiations, Eberhard Schellenberger was monitored without interruption and minute-by-minute records were kept, examples of which are documented in the book.
The Stasi accused him of working with "imperialist secret forces" and never let him out of their sight on every visit to the GDR until the fall of the Wall. But the Stasi also had informers in the West. For example, it recruited three Würzburg students at Lake Balaton in Hungary for its purposes.