There were 17 Stasi remand prisons and over 70 juvenile work camps in the GDR. The 45-minute documentary SPLITTER IM KOPF – HAFTBEDINGUNGEN IN DER DDR (Splinters in the Head – Prison Conditions in the GDR) gives a voice to four people who were imprisoned for weeks and years on charges of “subversive agitation” and “difficulty in being educated.” Their lives were turned upside down overnight; they lost their families as well as their economic and social livelihoods. The writer Siegmar Faust, the photographer Katrin Büchel, the auto mechanic Thomas Hannemann, and the doctor and singer-songwriter Karl-Heinz Bomberg describe their arrests and experiences in detention. 

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This will be followed by a Q&A with director Prof. Jürgen Haase and protagonist Dr. Karl-Heinz Bomberg.