Marketa Goetz Stankiewicz: 2 books
The Silenced Theatre
Czech Playwrights without a Stage
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
Since the Soviet occupation of 1968 censorship has closed the curtain on free expression in Czechoslovakia. But plays continue to be circulated in typescript within the country, are regularly smuggled out for publication abroad, and continue to be produced without restriction in the West. This book...
Totalitarianism on Screen
The Art and Politics of The Lives of Others
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation's citizens. Known as the Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the...