Fieldwork Doc Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen

Archaeology Terrifying
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Oct 22, 2024
Short documentary on the process of doing anthropological fieldwork research among former GDR political prisoners who now guide tours in the former Stasi prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen in which they used to be imprisoned.
This is the street where my research began.
This is the Vrijenwaldenstrasse.
This is the end of the former Stasi-gevangenis.
Where I've been filming these last few months.
Van people who were caught there have been watching.
I've also interviewed these people.
I'm not going to interview the last two people.
The ones I also filmed the rounds.
And I filmed ten tours and interviewed all ten people.
There are again a bunch of school buses that do tourist trips.
About half of the people who visit these prisons are students.
Three and a half months I had nothing to read.
In three and a half months I've also had, like today, 24 hours of light in my face.
I have to look for certain places.
If I'm with the Flying Boat, the real investigation is here, as Flying Boat.
And I'll be there to meet the visitors.
Yeah, as I said, blinking back was not.
That was too dangerous for the Wachtleuten.
What else have they made?
And from what I understand nothing happened just today.
If we didn't have this position, the football hook would be broken.
We were screamed into the slag position.
Of, but you've heard the net.
This sound met de Rieger.
That he's the one who's going to get hurt.
That shouldn't be in our cell.
That could be somewhere else.
We've all been there.
These slagsturen, they are still walking today.
So I've heard sometimes that I'm plotting, that's still a myth.
I'm going to the psychiatric hospital.
I can't wait.
And the here too make.
In the cells of the hearing room.
Go, and I've seen it.
But they find that I'm always in the seats of the interrogators.
Is that conscious?
No, of course.
It's also a good feeling when I'm there today.
No, yeah.
Yeah, I had my enemy in there.
I've got a place to go.
En ik, ik, on this place.
There is no harm in it.
Just like he did.
In the hearing room.
I can't get through.
I always have to sit on this chair.
I'm practically here.
I'm not sitting on this chair.
There it is.
Of course.
In any case.
Don't think it's hard because of our demonstration.
Today I can sit here on this seat.
Where the associations sit.
Maybe I'll make that on the computer.
I don't think so. I was just...
We have stories to tell.
Stories about the pack.
Stories about...
We have something else very bizarre here.
Stories to be reported.
What changed me so instantly.
What I said at that moment was a bit of a lie.
That was the Geruchten yesterday.
I want these Geruchten.
I'm not going to sit here.
These are the intensive DDR geruchten.
In that building.
That was so obvious.
He was.
I'm going to go.
That wasn't the strongest.
Water is coming.
But it's every time...
I'm always shocked.
There's always something going on.
Things you can't say.
As you see in your mind.
When I'm here, the door is locked.
In the cutting hounds.
We died when we were dressed.
I feel the independence.
As a young under-officer.
The hands are on the ground.
When I went to the infirmary I had to run.
Such things.
It comes every time.
You overcome it only because you think.
I do good things.
In something nice.
In the new building.
It's her tweed.
The floors.
Die for the public traffic.
His toegenomen.
But there's still a third floor.
Dying is incredible.
That's really original.
I can explain.
That's another world.
It's very weird.
This old world.
So I can tell you.
That makes it different.
- I'm not going to.
I don't know why.
Like you, like me.
In total, 10.5 years.
The gates of hell.
I'm going to the door.
Because you.
As it was dangerous.
It was forbidden.
And you have no courage.
How the image controls.
And who controls the memories.
I'm going to check on the others.
The world.
Always have an image of the present.
That's always important for the present.
Good to learn.
But you can too.
In the past, there were always images.
The photos of Tijdens.
The painting of Tijdens.
The film is tijdens.
But the images in your head.
Who controls it.
The image.
The control and the memory.
What images are the people of the time?
So will the gesture of remembrance.
Because then the owners on the head arise again.
Encontrolling men die with that.
So the images are very important.
