Sielard Wiesler Essay

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In the early 1980, a Staci East German secret police officer, Gerd Wiesler,who is depicted as, a proud, zealous, disciplined , entirely cold-blooded professional, and highly skilled ,with the highest level of monitoring of suspected individuals, is tasked with conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, named Georg Dreyman (a successful dramatist) and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland (a popular actress).Although at first,wiesler doesn’t believe that Dreyman is as good as people see him,laiter he is convinced otherwise and he is absorbed in their lives as he more and more listens to their conversation until he began to intervene in and protecting their lives positively without them realizing that. Finally he is caught …show more content…
Politically, the minister uses his political powers to go for what he wants. He even goes to the extent of hiring a professional severance officer, Wiesler to watch the family while he has a good time from distraction to get what he wants, Sieland. The young officer just for cracking a joke about SED leader Erich Honecker, he is transferred to the most low-level, soul-crushingly boring job available. After publishing an anonymous exposé in one of the leading West German weeklies, Der Spiegel. The article which concerns the DDR government's cover-up of the high suicide rate in East Germany; the government stopped collecting suicide statistics in 1977, at which time East Germany's suicide rate was higher than that of every other country in Europe except for Hungary, the free thinker writer, Dreyman, was highly chased by the minister and other political figures. This even led to the death of his lifelong companion, Sieland. The social classes in East German are seen through the way of life of people. The rich, intellectual and politics life a good life while the poor struggle to settle in life. Drayman is unable to tie the tie because he comes from a middle class family, where suites seemed too expensive for them, so they went for a regular wear, the young officer is demoted to a least job available, and he had no say because he comes from a poor background.

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