Late Night Live - Separate Stories Podcast

The Stasi poetry circle

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Synopsis

The leaders of the East German state encouraged all the population to write and set up writing groups in factories and government departments across the country. One of the most surprising was a poetry circle established within the Stasi - the secret police who were monitoring the population's every move. Their goal was to bring down capitalism through verse. Philip Oltermann has dug through the Stasi archives to find this incredible true story.