Lesebühne - Geheimdienstkrieg in Ostdeutschland

In the organizer's words:

In the first year after the popular uprising in June 1953, the mood in the GDR remained tense. Food shortages and supply bottlenecks characterized everyday life. The SED leadership courted the approval of the population with major events and cautious political and economic easing. At the same time, the Stasi covered the GDR with a wave of arrests and show trials in search of spies and agents.

All of this plays a major role in the new volume on the year 1954 in the series "Die DDR im Blick der Stasi". The author Jörg Kastner will also read from his novel "Ein Präsident verschwindet" (A President Disappears) about the escape of the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Otto John, to the GDR in 1954, which was also the subject of Stasi reports.

With Prof. Daniela Münkel, Dr. Martin Stief (Federal Archives - Stasi Records Archive) and Jörg Kastner (author)