Title: Bürger werden am Kopf mit Sendern angepeilt, belauscht, angeredet, verfolgt, gefoltert: Beispiel eines Widerstandes
Photographer(s): Andreas Seltzer
Writer(s): Dieter Hacker.
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Publisher(s): 7. Produzentengalerie, Berlin, Germany
Year: 1975
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Language(s): German
Pages: 70
Size: 10,5x14,5 cm
Binding: Softcover
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Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Germany, 1973-1974
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DER "SENDERMANN"
This was the name given to the person who in the winter of 1973 was supposed to have written the cryptic messages painted on the walls and written either on billboards or inside telephone booths in the Tempelhof and Schöneberg districts, warning that citizens were being monitored, listened to, talked to, persecuted and tortured by means of radio transmitters in their heads. He warned that C.I.A. radio transmitters had been placed in every third house in the entire city.
As strange and mentally ill as ‘Sendermann’ may seem, what he described was actually going on during the Cold War period, everyone was watching everyone.
In the East, the Stasi wired houses to monitor citizens, people were surveilled and photographed, suspects detained and interrogated and sometimes physically and mentally tortured.
A classic form of resistance and opposition in the pre-digital era, which like all direct forms of opposition conveys to us a piece of history and popular culture of the time.
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