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Article by Andreas Kötzing


Einführung

TD: volume 16, issue 2019, 2, page 95–100


Editorial

TD: volume 16, issue 2019, 2, page 101–106


Einführung: Stasi konkret? Zur gesellschaftlichen Wirksamkeit der Staatssicherheit

TD: volume 11, issue 2014, 2, page 181–184


Editorial: The State Security and ist Social Impact in the GDR

TD: volume 11, issue 2014, 2, page 185–188


Vom Mythos der Allmacht – Die Darstellung der Staatssicherheit im DDR-Spielfilm der 1960er Jahre

TD: volume 11, issue 2014, 2, page 279–291

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Es folgt die Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache following the article short description

The article deals with stylising State Security, by the examples of the DEFA spy films “Reserviert für den Tod” ( Spared for Death, 1963), “For Eyes only – Streng Geheim” ( For Eyes only – Strictly Confidential, 1963) and “Schwarzer Samt” ( Black Velvet, 1964). The author analyses by way of which narratives and stylistic means the MfS was presented in the early 1960s. Topically, these films reproduce all those threat scenarios employed by the SED propaganda to justify the building of the Wall. At the same time State Security acts as an almighty secret service always ready for the defence which is not used to control the population but rather protects it from imminent danger.

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