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During the Cold War, spy stories became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imaginations of readers and film goers alike as secret police outfits quietly engaged in espionage and surveillance under the shroud of utmost secrecy. Curiously, in the post-Cold War period there are no signs of this enthusiasm diminishing. With the opening of the secret police archives in many countries in Eastern Europe comes the unique chance to excavate many forgotten spy stories and narrate them for the first time.
Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe brings together a wide range of Cold War spy stories from the Eastern Bloc and explores stories compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files. This edited volume also investigates spy narratives told in multimodal forms of communication and representation, that is, stories told through different and distinctive combinations of visual, verbal-aural, musical, textual, and gestural signs. Crafted from a blend of memory, fiction, and forensic evidence from the archived files, these stories offer a rediscovery of curious and enigmatic espionage events.
By revisiting some little-known DEFA films and their depictions of the East German spy as opposed to the sleek Western James Bond type, Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe explores old and new tropes in espionage films and television dramas. It concludes with a close reading of the moral ambiguity that is prominent in recent Hollywood spy films such as Bridge of Spies and transatlantic television productions about Cold War Germany such as Deutschland 83, which point to a new aesthetic of surveillance and a new post-ideological depiction of the spy. These stories of collusion and complicity, of betrayal and treason, of right and wrong, and of good and evil call into question Cold War certainties and divides.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar, and Corina L. Petrescu
Part 1. Intelligence Officers and Informers
1. The File Story of the Securitate Officer Samuel Feld
Valentina Glajar
2. Man without a Face: The Autobiographical Self-Fashioning of Spymaster Markus Wolf
Mary Beth Stein
3. The Stasi's Secret War on Books: Uwe Berger and the Cold War Spy as Informant and Book Reviewer
Alison Lewis
Part 2. Targets
4. Of Sources and Files: The Making of the Securitate Target Ana Novac
Corina L. Petrescu
5. Soviet Narratives of Subversion and Redemption during the Second Cold War and Beyond: The Case of Father Dmitrii Dudko
Julie Fedor
Part 3. Secret East/West Operations
6. Espionage and Intimacy: West Berlin Turkish Men in the Stasi's Eyes
Jennifer A. Miller
7. Fleeing to the West: The 1978 Airplane Hijacking from Gdansk to West Berlin
Axel Hildebrandt
Part 4. Spies on Screen
8. Espionage and the Cold War in DEFA Films: Double Agents in For Eyes Only and Chiffriert an Chef-Ausfall Nr. 5
Carol Anne Costabile-Heming
9. Breaking Borders: Niklaus Schilling's Critical Spy Drama Der Willi-Busch-Report
Lisa Haegele
10. Political Ambiguity in Recent Cold War Spy Stories on Screen
Cheryl Dueck
Contributors
Index
