\u00bbWhat lay behind the headlong rush into a \u203aNew Society\u2039 that forbade any questions whatsoever?\u00ab
\nTamara Trampe<\/p>\n
Cramped interior spaces. The camera comes right up close to a man’s face. Slowly it scans his exterior: Jochen Girke. He was born in 1949 and grew up in the GDR. Tamara Trampe immigrated from the Soviet Union in 1950 as a child. One of them enlists in the civil service, the other is declared an enemy of the state. Why? In 1990, Tamara Trampe, in collaboration with Johann Feindt, began to sketch the cinematic psychogramme of a desk murderer, which also sought to get to the bottom of the pathologies of German social history.
\nHow did you become who you are today? Girke worked for many years as a psychologist for the GDR’s secret service. The retrospective begins in early childhood and extends to the present. After the dissolution of the state, he fled to the fore: he talks publicly about his Stasi past and plunges into his next job as a campaign consultant for the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). We listen to those around him: the high- school teacher, his mother, his wife, professors at the psychological institute. Trampe encounters shame and consternation, but also a surprising amount of indifference and helplessness. Only the writer J\u00fcrgen Fuchs, who himself was exposed to the violence of the Stasi, voices clear criticism.<\/p>\n
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