Synopsis
There is no contact to my father and my grandparents any more. Too often we didn’t see and speak to each other for many years. It seems we never had a real relationship. About their past, which is my family’s history, I don’t know more than a few sentences, adumbrations. Normannenstraße - the street where the former headquarter of the Stasi, the ministry for secret police, ist located. Everyone of the former GDR knows that. Normannenstraße is where I grew up. My grandfather probably worked in the ministry for secret police, my father for the anti-terror squad. But no-one ever spoke about it. My efforts to break the silence about the past regularly failed.What does it mean for a familly and for their next generations? What will it mean for our daughter?
