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Stasiland by anna funder6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Miriam was imprisoned, interrogated and tortured the Stasi came into her life and never let her go. Several years later, in 1996, Anna Funder, working for a TV station in what was formerly West Berlin, met Miriam Weber, who tried to climb over the Wall aged 16 and was caught. In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited and East Germany ceased to exist. I know she has not told her story to a stranger before ![]() It feels like a blind date, because we have described ourselves to each other. We shake hands, not looking too closely at first. She holds a single rose in front of her body so I will know who she is. Miriam Weber stands at the end of the platform, a small still woman in the stream of alighting passengers. ![]()
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