und “das Leben der Anderen” Name:Klasse:

___ million people live in Germany, and ___ of these live in the capital city, Berlin. WWII ended on ________ 1945 and Berlin, as the capital, was split into ____ zones : British, American, _________ and ________. Rising tension between East and West meant that in _____ the Soviets blocked ______ access to West Berlin. This was known as the Berlin Blockade. The ___________ had to drop in supplies. In 1961 the Soviets built the Berlin Wall to stop the _____ ________ of people leaving for the West. Life was very different on either side of the Wall. In _______ the Wall fell, and official ______________ took place on 3 rd September The German _________ moved over in The current Chancellor is called _______________. In Berlin you can see the ___________ ____ between East and West Berlin. The East-Side Gallery has work by _____ different painters. The Gedächtniskirche was ________ in 1943 and has been left as a monument to _______. The Jewish Memorial remembers the _______ Jews who died in camps in WWII. The German ___________ lives in Schloss Bellevue. In Berlin there are ______ theatres, 170 ________, many art ________, 3 ____________, a large ___________, ___ zoos and lots of ________. You can swim and sail on the __________. The Berlin football team is called ____________ and the ice hockey team are the ________.

1. What was the ‘Cold War’? 2. In what year did Germany officially become 2 separate countries? 3. What were their names? 4. In which Occupation Zone was the city of Berlin located? 5. Why did the economy do better in West Germany than in East Germany? 6. Who was the leader of East Germany when the Berlin Wall was built? 7. When exactly was the Berlin Wall begun? 8. How many years did the Berlin Wall stand? 9. Give 4 details about the structure of the Wall – e.g. length, height, number of watch towers, length of electric fence etc. 10. Look at a map of Europe (e.g in your planners) – explain how the fact that Hungary opened its border to Austria enabled thousands of East Germans to escape. What route did they take? 11. When were the Berlin Wall and the borders between East and West Germany opened? 12.When were East and West Germany unified (made into one country)?

DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN Wiesler is a playwright / Stasi officer. He is ordered to monitor Dreyman / Grubitz, who is suspected of being anti DDR / BRD. Minister Hempf / Jerska orders it, but he is mainly interested in the politics / girlfriend. Wiesler starts to observe him and discovers Dreyman is / is not anti DDR. This changes however. His friend Jerska has been blacklisted by the Stasi / Government for years. Eventually he escapes East Germany / kills himself. Dreyman decides to write a book / article and send it to the West. Even though he now has evidence, Wiesler does not betray / confess to Dreyman. He has become involved in the lives of Dreyman and Christa-Maria / Maria-Christa and has started to believe in free-thinking / Communism. When the article is published, the East German government is really pleased / embarrassed. Grubitz / Hempf blackmails Christa-Maria into revealing the author. Wiesler comes under suspicion as the flat is searched and no evidence / book is found. He is ordered to interrogate / spy upon Christa-Maria. He faces a difficult choice – whether to interrogate / sacrifice himself or Dreyman.