Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe

Valentina Glajar is a professor of German and an honorary professor of international studies at Texas State University, San Marcos. She is the coeditor of Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics (Nebraska, 2013) and co-translator of Herta Müller’s novel Traveling on One Leg. Alison Lewis is a professor of German at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of several books, including one in German about love and gender in literature during Germany’s reunification and a book in German about the Stasi’s infiltration of the literary underground. Corina L. Petrescu is an associate professor of German at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Against All Odds: Subversive Spaces in National Socialist Germany. Glajar, Lewis, and Petrescu recently coedited Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing.

"With the opening of the secret police archives in many countries in Eastern Europe comes the unique chance to excavate many forgotten spy stories and narrate them for the first time. 'Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe' brings together a wide range of Cold War spy stories from the Eastern Bloc and explores stories compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files"--

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar, and Corina L. Petrescu Part 1. Intelligence Officers and Informers 1. The File Story of the Securitate Officer Samuel Feld Valentina Glajar 2. Man without a Face: The Autobiographical Self-Fashioning of Spymaster Markus Wolf Mary Beth Stein 3. The Stasi’s Secret War on Books: Uwe Berger and the Cold War Spy as Informant and Book Reviewer Alison Lewis Part 2. Targets 4. Of Sources and Files: The Making of the Securitate Target Ana Novac Corina L. Petrescu 5. Soviet Narratives of Subversion and Redemption during the Second Cold War and Beyond: The Case of Father Dmitrii Dudko Julie Fedor Part 3. Secret East/West Operations 6. Espionage and Intimacy: West Berlin Turkish Men in the Stasi’s Eyes Jennifer A. Miller 7. Fleeing to the West: The 1978 Airplane Hijacking from Gdansk to West Berlin Axel Hildebrandt Part 4. Spies on Screen 8. Espionage and the Cold War in DEFA Films: Double Agents in For Eyes Only and Chiffriert an Chef—Ausfall Nr. 5 Carol Anne Costabile-Heming 9. Breaking Borders: Niklaus Schilling’s Critical Spy Drama Der Willi-Busch-Report Lisa Haegele 10. Political Ambiguity in Recent Cold War Spy Stories on Screen Cheryl Dueck Contributors Index