Der Erinnerungsort Stasi im Spiegel der aktuellen Gegenwartsliteratur

Although the Ministry for State Security (MfS) was disbanded over 30 years ago, the Stasi is still present in the media and therefore in people's minds. This is due to the ongoing process of negotiating how the GDR should be remembered. In the course of this process, the MfS has become a nationally and internationally significant site of remembrance. In an interdisciplinary study based on selected works of contemporary German literature, Pia Luisa Steffen examines what exactly this place of remembrance looks like and what the stories we tell about the MfS tell us about ourselves and the memory and identity collectives currently at work in Germany.