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Sampling the Stasi with a GPS device in Berlin. Rimini Protokoll's 50 Aktenkilometer and the recent German past

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posted on 2023-06-08, 20:38 authored by David Barnett
This essay considers Rimini Protokoll’s audio tour 50 Aktenkilometer (50 Kilometers of Files), a piece that allowed a mobile audience to listen to audio files about the East Ger-man Stasi while walking through the streets of Berlin-Mitte in 2011. The tour included a broad range of aural material, ranging from Stasi victims reading from files compiled about themselves in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), to authentic extracts from a Stasi telephone centre and interviews with those affected by the Stasi. The essay asks what the project and its diversity of documentary and first-hand sources sought to achieve with its use of its everyday ›experts‹, and whether its treatment of the Stasi as GDR institution could be considered politically problematic.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Wehrhahn

Volume

5

Page range

94-114

Pages

320.0

Book title

Rimini Protokoll Close-Up: Lektüren

Place of publication

Hanover

ISBN

9783865254542

Series

Forum für deutschsprachiges Drama und Theater in Geschichte und Gegenwart

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  • English Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Johannes Birgfeld, Ulrike Garde, Meg Mumford

Legacy Posted Date

2015-04-27

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