The political joke as a barometer of public opinion: Lew Hohmann’s documentary DDR-Witze und der BND(GDR Jokes and the BND) deals with a secret operation by the German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst/BND).
In the panel discussion, curators Inke Arns, Kata Krasznahorkai and Sylvia Sasse will report on their extensive research work in secret service archives of former socialist states in Eastern Europe.
The documentary by Fredrik von Krusenstjerna und Björn Cederberg reviews the story of an artist turned agent: Sascha Anderson, formerly known as a dissident and author, was exposed as a former Stasi informer in the 1990s.
During the two day workshop participants gain an insight in a range of skills the Croatian theatre director Tea Tupajić has learned in her two year long research in secret service methods.
Members of Bielefeld’s Digitalcourage e.V. society offer a precise and practice-oriented workshop on traceless and anonymous surfing the web, private sphere on smartphones and e-mail encoding.
