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SoliNaR at ZeBuS e.V. is organizing a headphone reading as part of the “Zukunftsinitiative Stadteil II” program, under the “Social City” subprogram. In cooperation with the Silent Rixdorf e.V. association, the event will take place in a garden in the heart of Rixdorf.

Who is this woman? Her Stasi files describe Uta as “tall,” “slender,” “very intelligent, and at times also very cunning.” They call her “crazy about men” and note that she “smokes a lot and also consumes a lot of alcohol.”

But is that all there is to her? How can one describe a person full of hope and desire who becomes entangled in the contradictions of her time?

Uta was a sex worker for over forty years. Assigned by the Stasi to work with men starting in 1971, she was both perpetrator and victim. In Clemens Böckmann’s deeply moving novel, he, she, and the files together tell a life story.

There is no single truth about the GDR or the exploitation of women—but there is attention for a person forgotten by everyone.

Headphone rental: €2 (Silent Rixdorf e.V.)

(Language: German)

Registration at: solinar@zebus-ev.de

Dates
July 2026
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