(Marc Lippa, Free Word, October 16, 2009)
When I in May here in my scholarship Künstlerhof took, I asked you to rummage through your drawers to provide letters, postcards or other communications available, sent in the period 1961-1989 on the inner-German border.
My time is now drawing to a close, so I would like these documents carefully over the years preserved or present between the pages of a cookbook or were recovered in his own Stasi file, now finally in a reading.
your documents to show that the private postal services between East and West Germany is invaluable to gain an insight into everyday life with little problems and personal stories, in life beyond the major political, historical book worthy events to get both sides of the border. Most of these letters are from the West: Issues of receipt of parcel deliveries, requests, try to get residence permits, feelings, anecdotes of the past days, gossip and scandal. From the GDR to the Federal Republic of mail is sent almost exclusively in copies of the Stasi and is already because it was filed, even if the content seems void of political relevance. The request for a few cans of hair spray, the idea to meet with a friend from Nuremberg on Lake Balaton, the question of when the imprisoned because of flight from the republic's partner comes and is released - in the letters are comical and tragic fragments of various biographies visible, the enable the previously little-documented look into private realities of the divided country.
On Friday, 23 October is the letters at 19.30 clock in the Red Steers are presented. To make it an event to the diversity of these documents is just, and differ by the addressee to be able to anchor in particular, however, to reading as a project of this city, I'm looking Schleusinger citizens, young and old, the Read one or more of the letters in the artists' studios.
The cost is very low, so I hope you will contact me ( 55 631 ). I send you a copy of the selected letter, we will arrange an appointment to the text once and read in peace together meet on 23 October before the event with the other readers to determine the organizational. Be part of the project, a project that has directly to do with Schleusingen. Thank you.
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