Anderson: A Documentary About A Man With a Double Life

Writer Sascha Anderson was a charismatic pop star of East Berlin’s oppositional literary and art underground scene in East Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg in the 1980s. He was also a zealous informant for the GDR’s secret services, the Stasi. More than twenty years later, the wounds he inflicted upon his former friends and colleagues still run deep and the finely woven web of lies, betrayals, and myths he unfurled  raise pertinent questions today about loyalty to our communities and friends, appeasement towards an aggressive political system, and personal responsibility and courage. Annekatrin Hendel’s psychogram looks into what prompted Anderson to act as he did and what convinced him to denounce others. Screened at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. 

Introduction by Mariana Ivanova (DEFA Film Library)

Event co-sponsored by the Deutsches Haus at New York University, the DEFA Film Library and German & Scandinavian Studies at UMass Amherst.