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Spy/Master: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know

Spy/Master is a Cold War spy series starring Happy Valley’s Alec Secăreanu as a Soviet secret agent who defects to the US.

WhatToWatch · Mar 28, 2024

'Puzzle Women': Piecing together the files destroyed by East Germany's secret police

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a team of archivists has been tirelessly sorting, pasting and reassembling documents that were destroyed by the Stasi, the East German secret police. Nicknamed the "Puzzle Women", these heroines of collective memory face the Herculean task of piecing together these files:…

France 24 · Jan 12, 2024

Stasi FC review – the astonishing tale of the secret police’s football team

The games were rigged, players’ families were held and, eventually, all their fans deserted them. This is an astute look at the wild story of a Stasi-run East German club

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2023

Freddie Forsyth compares Met Police to ‘Stasi hounding an old codger’ in speed fine row

The Day of the Jackal writer has been hauled before a court after an administrative error — which he insists the Met is to blame for

Evening Standard · Jul 24, 2023

East German dissident singer Wolf Biermann celebrated in Berlin exhibition

Exile in 1976 spawned mass protest movement and led to exodus of some of GDR’s top artists and actors

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2023

Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him

DRESDEN, Germany — Meticulous. Reticent. Clever, but never showy about it. Ever the watcher.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 20, 2023

From rampaging teens to female assassins: why has East German culture become so cool?

Is Britain’s sudden appetite for the GDR an unhealthy obsession? Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, examines the new wave of books and shows about life under the Stasi in the vanished state

The Guardian - UK · May 10, 2023

Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review – the human face of the socialist state

This revisionist history of East Germany paints a picture of a land that catered for its people’s needs – albeit while subjecting them to constant state surveillance

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2023

Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review – overturning cliches of East Germany

A revisionist history that adds stability, contentment and women’s rights to the familiar picture of authoritarianism

The Guardian - UK · Mar 29, 2023

10 of the best hotels in Berlin

A repurposed 19th-century public bathhouse, an old factory housing vintage caravans and a former Stasi spy hub are among the eclectic places to stay in the German capital

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2023