By invitation of the Stasi Archive, our group will move from abstract history to tangible evidence. This workshop places us directly within the archive's holdings to examine how a dictatorship documented its own society. Our task is to analyze, question, and interpret the vast paper legacy of the Ministry for State Security.

Programme:

13.00    Welcome

13.05    Touring the outside and the exhibition Access to Secrecy (Dagmar Hovestädt) / Haus 7 

14.30   Touring the Archive (Herr Dr. Schellbach) / Entry via Haus 7. 3rd Floor, B001, B101 und A401 (index-cards and stacks)

15:30   Short break

15:45   Presentation and discussion accessing Stasi records (Dr. Jedlitschka)  / Haus 7, 030 - petitioning access as journalists

16:45  Talk with Amer Matar, founder/co-director "Prisons Museum: building an archive and museum about atrocities", project site Syria Prisons Museum 

ca. 17:45  Ending