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How To Write on Stasiland

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This is an account of a true story

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GDR = German

Democratic Republic - 1949-1990

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This is an account of a true story

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Your task is to write about how Anna Funder has written this non

fiction text

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“This society, it was built on lies ...” Why does Funder find it so difficult to uncover the truth?

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In writing Stasiland Funder seeks to...

As she speaks to...she discovers...

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•What Funder is writing about

•Who Funder is writing about

•How Funder structures her text

•What techniques she uses

•What conclusions she comes to

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What Funder is writing about

Text Ideas and experiences Actions The people

•Account•Investigation•Version•Reflection•Exploration

•The reality of life in the/under the former GDR•The experiences of...in the former GDR•The past•Stories

•Portrays•Depicts•Writes•Investigates•Explores•Shows•Represents•Collects

•The people who...•Witnesses•Ordinary people•Victims of the Stasi•Former Stasi members

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In Anna Funder’s Stasiland - an account (text) of

daily life in the former GDR (experiences) - she

writes (action) about both the...and the

(who)

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In writing about non-fiction, there needs to be more focus on what the author is doing.

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In Ransom, the characters are...

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In writing Stasiland, Funder

seeks to...

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Who Funder is writing about

Victims of The Stasi

Unsympathetic Former Stasi

Sympathetic Former Stasi

•Julia•Miriam•Frau Paul•Klaus Renft

•Herr Von Schnitzler•Herr Bock•Herr Winz

•Herr Koch•Herr Christian•Herr Bohnsack

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In constructing Stasiland, Funder

doesn’t fill her book with just

dates and facts but with...in order to...

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Funder makes her opinion of the

people in her book clear by...

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On Mielke: His eyes are set close

together, his cheeks puffy. He has the face and

the lisp of a pugilist. p. 57

Showing us what she thinks

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On Von Schnitzler: This is so mad that

I can’t think of a question

immediately. p. 134

Telling us what she thinks

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P. 14-15 - Miriam*What she looks

likeHow she fits into

the *space around her

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How Funder has structured the text

P Miriam Miriam Miriam P P P P Julia Julia

Julia P Schni Julia Christ-ian Koch Koch Koch Klaus Bock

Paul Paul Paul Bohn-sack P P P Miriam

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Funder interweaves

reflections on present day

Germany with...

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What techniques does Funder use

•Funder shows us how she feels in many ways...

•Characterisation•Colour imagery•Tense

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• In northern Germany I inhabit the grey end of the spectrum: grey buildings, grey earth, grey trees. Outside the city and then the country spool past in black and white. p. 3

• From here to Validivostok this was Communism’s gift to the built environment - linoleum and grey cement, asbestos and prefabricated concrete...p. 124

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Present tense

•Now I am cold and sober and scared of what I am about to hear. p. 141

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•It’s not in the past - it’s in the present

•Immediacy•Connection•Closeness•Direct

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What conclusions does Funder arrive

at•To remember or forget - which

is healthier? p. 52•Read Charlie’s poem on p.

281-2

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Thank you...