Geheim! Stasi at the TUD

The app “Geheim!“ is a virtual tour on the campus of TU Dresden. It enables users to visit various places that were monitored, investigated and surveilled by Stasi as late as 1989. These places and their stories can be explored by finding histocaches.

The histocaches contain stories from the files of the Stasi, associated with buildings and places on the campus of TU Dresden. The app provides insights into these files ‒ outside the Archives, at the scene where they happened. Augmented reality revives the historic views of these places.

The stories tell of the monitoring and protection of sensitive research areas like nuclear physics, but also the surveillance of everyday student life in dormitories and clubs. They can highlight only small parts of the Stasi surveillance system, which kept evolving over the 40 years of existence of the GDR.

"Geheim!" is a joint project of the Federal Archives and the Stasi Records Archive, the Chair of Computer Graphics and Visualization at TU Dresden and the University Archive of the TU Dresden.

The app was developed by students, doing a complex lab project at the Chair of Computer Graphics and Visualization. Research and curating was done by the Stasi Records Archive Dresden. The University Archive Dresden contributed the historic photographs used in AR mode as well as additional background information.

Imprint:
Technical realization (TU Dresden):
Prof. Dr. Stefan Gumhold; Dipl. Inf. Benjamin Russig; David Groß, MSc. and Marzan Tasnim Oyshi, MSc.
Development: David Victor Raj Anthony, Olena Horokh, Paul Hunt, Tania Krisanty, Sneha Verma Prakash, Masoud Taghikhah, Sadika Tanzila, Victor

Contact:
Technische Universität Dresden, Professur für Computergraphik und Visualisierung, 01062 Dresden
Phone: +49 (0)351 463 38384, Email: cgv-web@mailbox.tu-dresden.de, Web: https://tu-dresden.de/ing/informatik/smt/cgv

Research, texts, editing (Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv):
Cornelia Herold, M.A., Dr. Maria Fiebrandt, Luisa Fennert, B.A.

Contact:
Bundesarchiv/Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv Dresden, Riesaer Straße 7, 01129 Dresden
Phone: +49 (0)30 18 665-3411, Email: dresden.stasiunterlagenarchiv@bundesarchiv.de, Web: www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de

Research (University Archive TU Dresden):
Dr. Matthias Lienert, Jutta Wiese

Contact: Technische Universität Dresden, Universitätsarchiv, 01062 Dresden
Phone: +49 (0)351 463 34452, Email: uniarchiv@tu-dresden.de, Web: https://tu-dresden.de/ua

Dresden, 2021