The Stasi Poetry Circle av Philip Oltermann

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<p><font><b>The extraordinary true story of the Stasi¿s poetry club: <i>Stasiland </i>and <i>The Lives of Others</i> crossed with <i>Dead Poets Society</i></b><b>.</b></font><br><br><b>¿Engrossing.¿ <i>Observer</i></b><br><br><b>¿Remarkable.¿ <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>¿Magnificent.¿ Phillipe Sands</b><br><br><b>¿Gripping.¿ <i>Literary Review</i></b><br><br><b>¿A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel it must be true . . . [A] grippingly well-written book.¿ Anthony Quinn, <i>Observer </i>Book of the Week</b><br><br>In 1982, East Germany¿s fearsome secret police ¿ convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work ¿ decided to train their own writers, weaponising poetry in the struggle against the class enemy. Once a month, a group of soldiers and border guards gathered in a heavily guarded military compound in East Berlin for meetings to learn how to write lyrical verse.<br><br>Journalist Philip Oltermann spent five years rifling through Sta