The play illuminates the destroyed villages in the GDR restricted area
The play illuminates the destroyed villages in the GDR restricted area
The memory of the forced relocations in the former GDR becomes alive when the premiere of the play "The sloped houses in the border area" in the former US camp takes place in the Point Alpha memorial in Rasdorf on June 26th at 6.30 p.m. The focus is on Stalinist practices and the fate of the residents, whose villages were demolished in the restricted area. The tickets are free of charge, which should attract many interested parties. The play is staged by students from Hünfeld and by the Landestheater Eisenach and gives a unique insight from the first-person perspective of the former buildings that were affected by forced relocations. Director Stephan Rumpf and dramaturge Juliane Stückrad integrate the descriptions of the suffering residents to prevent forgetting and to document the destruction at the inner German border. The basis of the project is the book "For one's own security" by Wolfgang Christmann and Bruno Leister, who will be present at the premiere to answer questions and introduce the audience to the topic, reports Antennethueringen.de.
Our neighbors in Thuringia know that the compulsory relocations during the "Action Uger" had a profound effect on the population in the 1950s. These secret and meticulously planned measures of the Ministry of State Security concerned around 10,000 people, and there were no legal foundations or fair compensation. Many affected people who lived near the strongly guarded border were driven out of their home villages under the pretext of "security". In addition, there are no excuses and no reversal for those who have lost their home, reports MDR.de.
The shadows of the past
countless villages between Rhön and Baltic Sea were not spared the forced relocation. A direct result of this brutally carried out operations was the closure and destruction of communities to enable the expansion of the border security systems. Those affected often had to move into new, foreign places under miserable conditions, where they were stamped as criminals by neighbors. Even today it happens that members of this tragic fate are reminded of the events and hook what really happened with their ancestors. This does not get any better, if you consider that there were no fair compensation payments for lost property in the 1950s, it goes down.
It is also worth reporting that the forced relocations in the inner German border area did not only take place in a large wave. Even in the 1970s and 1980s, isolated forced relocations were continued. In particular, the "Aktion Kornblume" in 1961 led to the relocation of around 2,000 people. In the villages that were affected by these actions, often no more than gray desert remained, while the historic buildings and caves faded unnoticed under the dust of the past. According to Wikipedia, both self -employed and farmers who were stamped as "politically unreliable" were driven out in the time of the compulsory exposure. The reports of denunciations and the arbitrary assessment of those affected by the authorities did not make the situation better and will be part of the narrative in the play that will soon be celebrating its premiere.
The stories of these injustices may still be painful about 30 years after the fall of the wall as painful memories, but the play in Rasdorf gives the words and memories of the villagers left behind. The hope is that, after the idea, the audience not only with a new understanding, but also with a feeling of responsibility for memorial culture, as Antennethueringen.de notes.
If you want to learn more about the background of the compulsory releases, you will find useful insights into mdr.de , and wikipedia .
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