Chapter Number and nameSetting/sCharacter/sMain eventsQuotes(at least1)New Words

1 Berlin, winter 1966Alexanderplatz station. TolietOn the trainStasi museumAnna, Women at the station,Frau HollitzerAnna travels to Leipzig to meet MiriamIts a dumb feeling, i don't want to shake it. The rhythm soothes like a cradle, hushes my tapping fingersgaze,affix,spool,damp,bureaucratic,bureaucracy,nonplussed,sophisticated,telexes,tics,ballet,shoelaces,choreography,scouts,surreptitiously

2MirriamOversea television service in west BerlinOffice deskApartmentUrsulaUwe schmidt,Alexander scheller,Miriam Weber,

Uwe and Anna having a discussion about how to respond to a letter from a german in Argentina.Anna go to Leipzig to meet Miriam.They just had the rotten luck to end up behind the Iron Curtain.

occasional,acreage,leaflets,sedition

3Bornholmer BridgeAt the wall,At Bornholmer bridge station,solitary,CourtMiriamMajor FleischerMiriam was trying to get over the wall, then she got to the death strip.

Miriam went home because she didn't find the way go through the death strip.

Miriam being put in the prison for 1.5 yearsIf she had any future, it as over there.

Not permitted to sleepSluice

Rummage

Fortification

Equipment

4CharliePrisonat at Hoheneck

Marriage with Charlie

The district attorneys office

Herr Xs office

Charlies funeral

Stasis office

MiriamCharlie Major TrostHerr X Herr MohreMajor MalerMiriam get in prison for a year and half, and she experienced metal torture during the time.

Miriams husband dead in prison.

Miriams try to find how charlie killed himself and Major Trost had told lie all the time.I was basically no longer human.

Everything I applied for, the Stasi made sure I was turned down.

She kept going back to his office, and kept asking.Coax

Scandal

Satirical

Provocative

5The Linoleum PalaceAnnas apartment

Julia Anna back in Berlin from Leipzig.Julia went in Annas apartment without telling and take some furniture.Anna made an AD seeking for Stasis story.His kindness warms me already

Yesterday feels like a different country.Inscrutable

Denude

Knackered

Utilitarian

6Stasi HQEarly In the morning in Annas apartment

Stasis HQFormer IMErich MielkeErich HoneckerMikhail GorbachevA former IM called Anna and wanted to get paid for telling his story, get rejected.

Anna went to the Stasi HQ museum.

Anna talked how the GDR worked

The reason of Berlin wall Fell

How much are u paying?

Stasi Out!

Nothing can hinder the progress of socialismfumble

Incarcerate

Citadel

7The Smell of Old MenStasi HQMielkeHoneckerCleaningWomanStasi officers try to destroy the evidence.Mielke was in prison and Honecker died.The files been opened to people.

They shredded the files until the shredders collapsed.

a quiet mixture of disgust and sadness

They wanted the wall back.Acronym

Smudge

TroveJubilantExtraditeCompelDenunciation

8Telephone CallsAnna's apartment

HotelMiriamKlausHerr WinzAnna got a call from Winz to make an arrangement for metting the next day afternoon , telling her stories about the stasi.

Anna met Winz and receive some files about the former stasi.

Anna left message of Miriams phone and not reply.Disguised as a westerner; go to a neutral place; usually use the Hotel Merkur; one cannot be too careful these days; first, please show me your ID.Exhilarated

Amnesia

9Julia Has No StoryPark

near station

Annas apartment JuliaDieterJulia talked about her first boyfriend who is an italian and stopped. But anna asked her to say more.Under socialism, prostitution did not exist.

Depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, optimists and believers are happier and healthier in their unreal world. Rancour

Drealock

Incognito

Ambivalent

Dissident

10The Italian BoyfriendLeipzing FairBoarding schoolHomeHungaryJuliaItalian boyfriendJulias motherHeadmasterJulia get a Italian boyfriend.Julia failed to get in university and failed to find job. She broke up with her boyfriendWe will not stand in her way.

There is no unemployment in the German Democratic Republic.Bilious Scrutiny

Pernicious

11 Major N.Room 118HomejuliaMajor,NJulias familyJulia tell everyone in her family about Major N not to talk to. Major N and his boss visited julias home, gave in and julia got a job next week. Thats probabaly why i react extremely to approaches from men and so on.

We knew, wed won.cistern

opt

chronicle

implore

12 The LipsiAnna's officeUwes carTelevision stationUweFrau AndersonUwe give Anna some available source of Stasi Men.Anna went to the television station and search for tapes about von SchnitzlerAnna get permission to visit von SchnitzlerWhat was said was not real, and was real was not allowed.

Humane it is, to make peace for all men on earth. Chuffed

Turncoat

Nostalgia

Colloquial

13Von Schni-herr von schnitzlers apartmentHerr von Schnitzler

Frau von SchnizlerAnna visted von schnizler in this apartment and Herr von Schnizler tell her about the ideal of balck channel. drop the von in front of his name.

I am so be-lov-ed:turn the fact that he was hated into the fact that he is rightcordial

staunchly

14The Worse You FeelAnna's apartmentPoolJuliaJulia told anna about her experience after the wall fall. Anna went for swimming but left because there're too much rules.The last straw

Naked on a table, offering her no protectionExhale

Subordinate

Janitor Taboo

Spree

wryly

15Herr Christianstationtrainfreeway

Herr Christiananna on the train meet the latest stasi man.Herrchristian drove anna around and told her what he used to dan and what he do now.Duty to obey the law

People would drug their children and put them in the bootLisp

16 Socialist Manstreet of berlinLochs apartmentlindauHagen KochHeinz KochPaul EnkeAnna went to see Hagen koch and Hagen told anna the story about us army and his farther.become a member of socialist unity party.

Spoil the harvest; in a place where people got news form outside , they have nothing else to believe.exuberantly

cartographer

calibrate

17 Drawing the lineThe Ministry of State security

At the wall

GDR

PrisionHagen KochFrau KochHeinz KochHeinz Koch went to the GDR to visit his son - Hagen Koch, and was thrown out of job as he didnt told the government about the visit.Hagen Koch handed in his resignation and was arrested on the same day because of pornographic materials.Frau Koch was questioned, threatened, and forced to divorce with Hagen Koch.Hagen Koch got out of prison and remarried with Frau Koch six months later.That girl was inappropriate. We have plans for you

You were always so punctual and reliable.Subsidisation

Garrison

Shoddy

18 The plateHagen Kochs officeHagen Kochs ApartmentHagen KochMiriamHeinz koch died.Hagen Koch took the plate.After the Wall fell, interviewers went to Hagen Kochs apartment for his story.Anna went to the place where Miriam climbed over and went through what Miriam did according to the map from Hagen Koch again.

My little private revenge. The plate was all I had the courage for.

Quite a bit of damage. My wife lost her job because of themDefianceAffidavit

19klausKlauss bedroom and officeKlaus

AngelikaAnna went to Klauss apartment for visit and Klaus told the story of him.The chains are getting tighter

An innocence that he did not let them damage; you cant let it eat you up, make you bitter. Youve got to laugh where you can; internal victory

20 Herr Bock of GolmHerr Bocks houseHerr bockHerr Bock told Anna about everything he knew about how the Ministry of State Security worked, internal and external.

We might need to know where their weak points were

They were somebody; they felt they had it over other people. Espionage

Euphemistic

21Frau Paulbus stopFrau Pauls living roomeastOstbahnhof StationFrau paul

Hartmut Ruhrdanz

Torsten Ruhrdanz

Dr Hinze

Michael Hinze

Werner CochFrau Paul told Anna story about her experience at the Stasi time.There were people in this small community escaped successfully with the help from the west, so Frau Paul and her husband tried as well, however, failed.

The Wall went straight through my heart.

No one had spoken with me about it.

Adamant

Recuperate

Plight

22The DealRosa Luxeburg Station45 BrunnenstrasseStasi HQWerner CochHartmut RuhrdanzFrau PaulCoch, Hartmut, Frau Paul, and three students were going to try to escape from GDR again.

Frau Paul was kidnapped on the street by the Stasi and sent to the Stasi HQ for questioning.

The Stasi offered Frau Paul a chance to stay with her son in the west, in return, she had to helped them trap Michael Hinze, which she refused.One good turn deserves another..

I had to decide against my son, but I couldnt let myself be used in this way. Courier

Decipher

Abduction

23 HohenschnhausenHohenschonhausen prisonwestFrau Pauls house

Frau PaulMichael HinzeTorstenFrau Paul took Anna to the prison one day for a visit, telling her about the prison and what she had experienced.Anna met Torsten and talked about his life, then he drove Anna to the station.Quotes:Not one of the torturers at Hohenschonhausen has been brought to justice.Unravel

Amid

Yoke

24Herr BohnsackPubOverseaPartStasi HQ buildingHomeHerr BohnsackMakus wolfUweAnna went to the pub with Herr Bohnsack for a chat about his story at the Stasi time.Mielke stood down, the Stasi lost, and they were going to destroy the files, the Wall fell.

Annas mother was very sick, she went back home, months later, her mother died.Herr Bohnsack stood there for three days, feeding the files into the fire. He got death threats over the phone. Lacy

Publican

urbane

grotesque

25Berlin, Spring 2000Anna's old ApartmentParkMiriamJuliaThe man with medalAnna wrote Miriam a letter when she was in Australia, but got no reply, she wrote Julia one as well, and heard from Julia that she moved to the USA. was just living with too many things from my past that could come find me there.

If you didn't buck the system then it wouldnt harm you

26The Wallanna's buildingOn the callWallDrunk mankarl-eduard von schnitzlerHagen KochGerdAnna called Frau Paul and chat, learning that Frau Paul was followed by someone, maybe the Stasi.I hear fear through in his voice, the flipside of fury.

One must not see thing just from one side!SteelyDesecrateAntagonize

27 PuzzlersStasi file authority officeHerr RaillardThree women & two menHerr Raillard introduced Anna to the puzzlers, they told her about puzzling, and the strict rules for choosing people to puzzle the pieces, making sure the truth would go to the public.

masses and masses of tiny pieces of paper; 375 years

The file was simply closeduncluttered

28 Miriam and CharlieNew museumrunden ecke Miriams apartmentTRAINparkMiriamAnna went to Leipzig, she visited the new museum I held myself tight so as not to scream

sometimes she can hear and smell them, but for now the beats are all in their cagesHunker

tawdry

commotion