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, 20:38authored byDavid 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.
History
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