2: “You’ll Never Make a Spy Out of Me”: The File Story of “Fink Susanne”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I File Stories
8. 1: The Secret Lives and Files of Stasi Collaborators: Reading Secret Police Files for Identity and Habitus 27
9. 2: “You’ll Never Make a Spy Out of Me”: The File Story of “Fink Susanne” 56
10. 3: Witness for the Prosecution: Eginald Schlattner in the Files of the Securitate 84
11. Part II Files, Memory, and Biography
12. 4: Collaboration as Collapse in the Life Writing and Stasi Shadow-Documents of Monika Maron and Christa Wolf 115
13. 5: Perpetrator as Victim in Jana Döhring’s Stasiratte 137
14. Part III Performing Files and Surveillance
15. 6: Before “It Gets All Wiped Out”: Document-Affect and History-Effect in the Hungarian Performance Apaches on the Danube 153
16. 7: The Stasi Files on Center Stage: Life Writing, Witnessing, and Memory in Recent Performance 178
17. 8: Surveillance and the Senses in a Documentary Portrait of Radio Free Europe 201
18. Contributors 229
19. Index 233