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The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann review – paper spies
The strange true story of how East Germany’s secret service tried to win the cold war with verse
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CRAIG BROWN: Imagine if the chap running your creative writing circle was spying on you...
For readers and writers in Communist East Germany back in 1981, a leading film-maker reminded an audience that writing was a 'weapon in the ideological class struggle with imperialism'.
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The Stasi Poetry Circle review – East Germany's unsettling war with words | History books
Philip Oltermann’s account of how the Stasi decided to use poems as a means of fighting capitalism is fascinating, strange and troubling
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Love in a cold climate: poems by the Stasi
Philip Oltermann reveals the malign doings of the Stasi in an intriguing and creepy short book. Uwe Berger had been an enthusiastic Stasi informer before becoming leader of Poetry Circle.
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