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American playwright Doug Wright is interviewing German antiques collector Charlotte, an eccentric figure who survived the Nazi and Communist regimes as a transgender woman. Charlotte’s story is clouded by ambiguity and controversy stemming from the fact that she cooperated with the Stasi, the Communist secret police force that spied on and jailed East German citizens. Most citizens cooperated with the Stasi, though, as they had no real choice. In this scene, Doug asks Charlotte about her
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Start: Doug: Charlotte, I know this is difficult. And I know I’m an American, from thousands of miles away…I didn’t even really know what the Cold War was until it ended…so I’ve no right to sit in judgment. But, about Alfred Kirschner…his arrest… Charlotte: Hmm. Yes. Of course.
[... … …] End: Charlotte: These hands have laid mortar and brick; they have carved walnut. But for Alfred they learned to knit. Doug: But Charlotte, I— Charlotte: It is beautiful, yes?
Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, pp. 63-64.
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