The young Jörg Berger refused to be spoon-fed. Privately, he leads the mid-70s with an unsteady life-changing women's friendships. In friendship he has separated from his wife. For the Stasi, he is so, however, the uncertainty factor. Finally, he served as coach of the East German Junior National Team in a responsible post, which is commonly associated with West travel. Berger, however, on the instructions of the party may no longer travel. The recruitment as informer, is it by the Ministry of State Security offered as a supposed way out, he refuses. "People put pressure on me then that I should marry again," recalls Berger. "I was in a situation where I said: 'So you can not live the next thirty years!" I wanted to take my life into their own hands. " Berger receives a complete surprise in 1979 allowed to accompany the junior national team to Yugoslavia. Buy it is clear to him: From this trip he will not return to East Germany. The most difficult is the farewell to Ron, his eight-year-old son. Will he ever see him again? One last time his parents visited Jörg Berger in the northern city of Leipzig, only the mother, he tells of his plan, secretly in the attic. Both cry. Because the mother was often in the West already retired, it gives the son a piece of advice along the way: "Do not think the wait over there for you." As the train from Belgrade crossed the Austrian border, Berger leans out of the window and yells out his joy. His escape was successful. But shortly after arriving in Germany comes the disillusionment. The German Football Federation (DFB) are reserved in the case Berger. In no case would the largest sports association advised the Federal Republic under the suspicion of acting as emergency aid organization, and thus the already strained German-German relations to weigh on sports. The successful former East German coach selection will also make his first-time coach ticket, called the DFB condescending. Despite everything, he will soon make career in the Bundesliga, and more often his name appeared in the press.
for State Security Berger's success is a provocation. In their understanding, he is a "sport traitor", a criminal who has left his socialist homeland in the lurch. Berger feels watched, he feels that it also followed the Stasi in the West. Shortly after his escape, he is approached on the street. The two strangers are full-time employees of the Ministry. They call on Berger, to travel to Sweden, where his mother would wait for him. But Berger suspects a trap. "I could not imagine that my mother did the day I know that if I had been in Sweden, one would have tried to get back into the GDR." Certainty about the level of supervision Berger awarded only after the wall came down with the insight into his Stasi file. Unofficial least twenty-one staff had scheduled the Mielke-authority on him, of which more than half of the west. Two of his closest friends have spied on him for years, including Bernd Strange, who rises as a loyal Stasi information provider in the 80 years up to the coach of East Germany. After the turn No one is the old SED leadership cadre to get Berger added. Even Wolfgang Riedel, who led the 1979 delegation to Yugoslavia, has never apologized to him. As the Stasi file of the book author proves himself Riedel had immediately after the escape of Berger's stitched heel, with the aim to catch him even before the border. After the Fall Career Riedel makes the DFB. As Treasurer he wears to 2004, the responsibility for the finances of the Northeast German Football Association. For his outstanding service to him, the DFB badge of honor is awarded in gold. Even a well-known East German doping doctor Berger met again after the Fall: Dr. Hans Jörg Eißmann and early 90s working as a doping control on behalf of the DFB. Berger throws him on edge from the cabin. Until today, the DFB has failed to overcome his East German past. A deficit which Berger identifies deserving autobiography relentlessly.
(Source: Zeit.online.de)
for State Security Berger's success is a provocation. In their understanding, he is a "sport traitor", a criminal who has left his socialist homeland in the lurch. Berger feels watched, he feels that it also followed the Stasi in the West. Shortly after his escape, he is approached on the street. The two strangers are full-time employees of the Ministry. They call on Berger, to travel to Sweden, where his mother would wait for him. But Berger suspects a trap. "I could not imagine that my mother did the day I know that if I had been in Sweden, one would have tried to get back into the GDR." Certainty about the level of supervision Berger awarded only after the wall came down with the insight into his Stasi file. Unofficial least twenty-one staff had scheduled the Mielke-authority on him, of which more than half of the west. Two of his closest friends have spied on him for years, including Bernd Strange, who rises as a loyal Stasi information provider in the 80 years up to the coach of East Germany. After the turn No one is the old SED leadership cadre to get Berger added. Even Wolfgang Riedel, who led the 1979 delegation to Yugoslavia, has never apologized to him. As the Stasi file of the book author proves himself Riedel had immediately after the escape of Berger's stitched heel, with the aim to catch him even before the border. After the Fall Career Riedel makes the DFB. As Treasurer he wears to 2004, the responsibility for the finances of the Northeast German Football Association. For his outstanding service to him, the DFB badge of honor is awarded in gold. Even a well-known East German doping doctor Berger met again after the Fall: Dr. Hans Jörg Eißmann and early 90s working as a doping control on behalf of the DFB. Berger throws him on edge from the cabin. Until today, the DFB has failed to overcome his East German past. A deficit which Berger identifies deserving autobiography relentlessly.
(Source: Zeit.online.de)
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