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The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures
- Narrated by: Michael Fenner
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Publisher's summary
Darkly comic and hauntingly surreal, The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures, examines obsession, paranoia and the dwindling career of a Stasi operative.
9th November 1989, East Berlin, the day the Berlin Wall will fall: Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi agent whose manual on the demoralisation of political opponents once made him renowned, is now in the fading twilight of his career.
Twenty five years earlier: a physicist, Johannes Held, had been sent by the East Germans to infiltrate a US military operation in the American desert, where teleportation and other paranormal activities were being investigated. Held had unknowingly fathered a child there, a fact Zeiger was aware of, and when he returned and refused to divulge what he had learned despite being tortured, Zeiger strangely became a sort of friend. But he would still betray him, a treachery that haunts him to this day.
Like many other officials and government functionaries, Zeiger has been feeling strange, beginning to lose his grip on reality, a development he has tied to the disappearance of a café waitress for whom he has developed an attraction. This woman, Lara, who has been missing for a month, has a surprising connection to Johannes Held. In his attempts to find her, Zeiger will discover that he himself has been betrayed, and as chaos breaks out, the Wall comes down and his carefully curated life unravels.
The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures brilliantly captures a moment when ideological winds shift and dogma and inhumanity reign.
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