B: I was born into a deaf family.
B: $GEST-AUFMERKSAMKEIT1^
B: ICH1*
B: FRÜHER1*
B: früher
B: ICH1*
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: GEBURT1A
B: geboren
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: FAMILIE1
B: familie
B: GEBURT1A
B: FERTIG1B
A: Are your parents deaf?
B: ABLAUF2^
A: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
A: ELTERN1B*
A: eltern
B: Yes, I was born into a deaf family.
A: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: JA1A
A: DU1*
A: I see/
A: WIEDER1A^
A: ach so
B: ICH2*
B: FAMILIE1
B: familie
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: GEBURT1A
B: geboren
B: FERTIG1B
B: ABLAUF2^
B: I went to school in Erfurt.
B: ICH1
B: SCHULE1B*
B: schule
B: WO1A
B: wo
B: IN1
B: in
B: erfurt
B: ERFURT1
B: GEHÖREN1^
B: My mother used to drop me off at kindergarten, which was close to the school.
B: ICH1
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: kindergarten
B: KIND2*
B: GARTEN1
B: mama
B: MAMA11*
B: ||$PROD*
B: $INDEX1
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: schule
B: SCHULE1C
B: BEREICH1A
B: There we started to learn to articulate individual letters.
B: ANFANG1A
B: anfang
B: ARTIKULATION1^||$NUM-EINER1A:1d
B: a
B: $ALPHA1:B||$NUM-EINER1A:2d
B: b
B: $ALPHA1:C||$NUM-EINER1A:3d
B: c
B: $ALPHA1:D||$NUM-EINER1A:4d
B: d
B: $PMS*||$NUM-EINER1A:5
B: e
B: $PMS*
B: f
B: ABLAUF2^
B: Later in school, I was the only child in class who had deaf parents. Everybody else came from hearing families.
B: ICH1
B: SCHULE1E*
B: schule schule
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: gehörlos
B: WIMMELN1*
B: ICH2*
B: ich
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: gehörlos
B: KLASSE8*
B: ABER1*
B: MEIN1
B: $NUM-EINER1A:1d*
B: ein
B: MEIN1*
B: FAMILIE1
B: familie
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: ICH1*
B: $NUM-EINER1A:1
B: ein
B: $GEST^
B: familie
B: KLASSE8*
B: FAMILIE1*
B: SCHULE1C
B: schule
B: KLASSE1
B: klasse
B: KLASSE8*
B: SEIN-IHR1*
B: FAMILIE1
B: familie
B: HÖREND1A||$INDEX1
B: hören{d}
B: ||$INDEX2*
B: I was in class A, no, B.
B: $GEST^*
B: ICH1
B: $ALPHA1:A
B: a
B: ICH2*
B: $ALPHA1:B
B: b
B: In class A there was another child from a deaf family.
B: KAMERAD2*
B: ANDERS2*
B: ander
B: $ALPHA1:A
B: a
B: $INDEX1*
B: ICH2
B: KLASSE1
B: klasse
B: KLASSE8*
B: BESITZEN1*
B: [MG]
B: FAMILIE1
B: familie
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: $INDEX1*
B: The other pupils in my class were also deaf and could talk to one another, but that was about it.
B: ICH1
B: stumm
B: GRUPPE1A*
B: TAUB1A^*
B: WIMMELN1*
B: ja
B: MEIN1
B: meine
B: KLASSE1
B: klasse
B: KLASSE8*
B: MEIN1*
B: KLÄREN1*
B: So, I was constantly looking for other children who came from deaf families.
B: ALLE2A
B: WER3
B: wer
B: $INDEX1
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: gehörlos
B: SEIN-IHR1*
B: FAMILIE1
B: familie
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: ICH1
B: With some of them I hung out whenever I could; we stayed in touch.
B: STAMM4B
B: stamm
B: ICH2*
B: PAAR-ANZAHL1
B: KONTAKT2B*
B: [MG]
B: GRUPPE1A*
B: Although all the other children were also deaf, I didn‘t quite click with them. I rather spent all my time with those friends who also came from deaf families.
B: $INDEX1
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: MANNSCHAFT1^*
B: WIE7A
B: wie
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: MANNSCHAFT1^*
A: Yes, their identity was different from yours.
A: $ORAL^
A: aber
B: ICH2*
B: GRUPPE1A*
A: IDENTITÄT1A
A: ide{ntität}
B: ICH1
B: STAMM4A*
B: stamm
A: ANDERS2
A: anders
B: ICH1*
A: ide{ntität}
A: IDENTITÄT1A
B: GRUPPE1A*
A: BEREICH1A^*
B: TAUB1A^*
B: ICH2*
B: FAMILIE1
B: familie
B: TAUB1A^*
B: stumm
B: BEREICH1E^*
B: ABLAUF2^
B: That went on until I left school after tenth grade, then/
B: SCHULE1E*
B: schule schule schule
B: ABLAUF2
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: BIS1*
B: bis
B: SCHULE1E*
B: schule
B: FERTIG1A*
B: BIS1*
B: bis
B: $NUM-KLASSE1:10*
B: klasse zehn
B: SCHLUSS2A
B: schluss
B: DANN1A
B: dann
A: What was it like with the teachers?
A: lehrer
A: LEHRER2
A: PERSON1
A: wie sieht aus
A: WIE-SIEHT-AUS1
A: DU1^*
B: What about my teachers?
B: MEIN1*
B: meine
A: Did your teachers use the oral method, or did they sign?
A: lehrer
A: LEHRER2
B: LEHRER2
B: lehrer
A: $INDEX1*
A: ORAL1
A: oral
B: Well, oral/
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: [MG]
A: oder
A: ODER4B*
B: $LIST1:1of1d
A: GEBÄRDEN1A*
B: ORAL1*
B: Oh, you are asking which methods they used to teach us.
B: ACH-SO2*
B: [LM:ah]
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
B: MEIN1*
B: mein
B: LEHRER2
B: lehrer
B: ANSPRECHEN2*
B: My teacher asked us questions and checked our pronunciation.
B: ICH1
B: $INDEX1||$INDEX4
B: SUCHEN-TASTEND1*
B: $INDEX1||$INDEX1
B: LEHRER2
B: lehrer
B: MEISTENS1B
B: meist
B: $INDEX1*
B: FRAGE1
B: frage
B: $INDEX1*
B: SUCHEN-TASTEND1
B: SPRECHEN2*||$INDEX2
B: sprechen
B: $INDEX1||$INDEX1
B: GUT1*||$INDEX1*
B: gut gut gut
B: Whenever it was my turn, the teacher told me ”#Name1, you don’t speak very well.”
B: ICH1*||$INDEX1
B: ich
B: #name1
B: SPRECHEN4*
B: sprichst
B: $INDEX1*
B: MITTELMÄSSIG1*
B: [MG]
B: $INDEX1*
B: wie
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
B: SAGEN1*
B: BEISPIEL1^*
B: $INDEX1*
B: The grades on my report were always bad, only threes and fours [A German 3 is equivalent to a C, a 4 to a D].
B: SPRECHEN4*
B: ZEUGNIS4*
B: zeugnis
B: SCHLECHT1
B: schlecht
B: ICH1
B: $NUM-EINER1A:3d*
B: drei
B: $NUM-EINER1A:4d*
B: vier
B: Why should I object that?
B: ICH2*
B: $GEST^*
B: PROTEST1
B: protest
B: WARUM9*
B: warum
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
B: So when I got my report card, my grade for speaking was really bad.
B: ICH1
B: HIN2
B: ZEUGNIS4
B: zeugnis
B: BEKOMMEN3*
B: schlecht
B: ICH2*
B: SCHLECHT1*
B: SPRECHEN2*
B: sprechen
B: SCHLECHT1*
B: schlecht
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: $INDEX2
B: I showed it to my mum, and she said that the teacher was being too strict.
B: ICH1*
B: GRUND4B
B: grund
B: $PROD*
B: ICH2*
B: ich
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: mein mama
B: MAMA11
B: $INDEX1
B: ICH2*
B: $INDEX1*
B: $GEST^*
B: SPINNEN-VERRÜCKT-SEIN2
B: $INDEX1*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: UNTERRICHTEN1*
B: GENAU2
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: She said that I’m deaf and that that’s it.
B: ||$INDEX1
B: TAUB1A^||$INDEX1
B: stumm
B: FERTIG1B
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: FERTIG1B
B: I didn’t care.
B: ICH1*
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
B: Me and my mum went to school. She asked my teacher whether the other deaf children in my class really spoke well, and if so, why my speaking was bad.
B: DANN1A*
B: DORTHIN-GEHEN1*
B: SCHULE1B*
B: schule
B: DORTHIN-GEHEN1*
B: ICH1
B: lehrer
B: LEHRER2*
B: MANNSCHAFT1^*
B: ICH1*
B: MUTTER5*
B: $INDEX1
B: KLASSE8*
B: MEIN1
B: mein
B: KLASSE1
B: klasse
B: KLASSE8*
B: SPRECHEN2*
B: sprechen
B: GUT1
B: gut
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: SPRECHEN2*
B: sprech sprech sprechen
B: SCHLECHT1
B: schlecht
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN2^
B: WARUM3B*
B: warum
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: The teacher didn’t know what to say.
B: [MG]
B: SAGEN1*
B: $GEST^*
B: My mother said that those children in my class with hearing parents were at an advantage.
B: SAGEN1*
B: $INDEX1*
B: [MG]
B: MEIN1*
B: [MG]
B: MEINUNG1A
B: meinung
B: ICH1
B: $INDEX1*
B: FAMILIE1*
B: fam{ilie}
B: BEREICH1A^*
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: gehörlos
B: SEIN-IHR1*
B: FAMILIE1
B: familie
B: HÖREND1A||$INDEX1
B: hörend
B: VORTEIL1*
B: [MG]
B: Each time the children went home on the weekends, their parents were able to help them improve their pronunciation.
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: NACH-HAUSE1
B: heim
B: WOCHENENDE1*
B: wochenende
B: HEIM6
B: heim
B: $INDEX1*
B: ERKLÄREN1*
B: erklären
B: $LIST1:1of1d
B: HALS1^
B: [MG]
B: $LIST1:2of2d
B: HÖREN1*
B: hören
B: ERKLÄREN1*
B: $INDEX1*
B: BESSER1*
B: besser
B: I on the other hand would only sign with my parents, because they are also deaf.
B: ICH2*
B: ich
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: ICH1*
B: HEIM6
B: heim
B: ICH1*
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: GEBÄRDEN1G
B: FERTIG1B
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: I’m, so to speak, ”completely deaf”, because I used to only speak at school.
B: ICH1*
B: SELBST1A*
B: selbst
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: gehörlos
B: VOLL2B
B: voll
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: SPRECHEN2
B: sprechen
B: $GEST^*
B: [MG]
B: ICH1
B: nur
B: NUR2A*
B: IN1
B: schule
B: SCHULE1B*
B: $INDEX1
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: DARUM1
B: darum
B: ICH2
B: ABLAUF2^
B: My teacher told me that if my speaking remained that bad I would lose any contact to hearing people later on in life.
B: LEHRER2*
B: lehrer
B: BESCHEID1A*
B: DU1
B: WENN1
B: SPÄTER3
B: später
B: DU1*
B: SPRECHEN2
B: sprechen
B: SCHLECHT1*
B: schlecht
B: DU1*
B: SPÄTER3
B: später
B: DU1
B: KONTAKT2B
B: kontakt
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: VERLIEREN1
B: verloren
B: I thought he was totally exaggerating.
B: ICH1
B: $INDEX1*
B: GESCHICHTE2^*||AUFZÄHLEN1C*
B: $LIST1:3of3d
B: DAZU1^*||AUFZÄHLEN1C^*
B: I really didn’t care.
B: ICH2
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
B: EGAL3
B: egal
B: So I kept doing what I was doing until I finished school.
B: ICH2*
B: ich
B: ABLAUF2^
B: SELBST1A
B: selbst
B: ABLAUF2^
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: BIS1*
B: bis
B: SCHULE1B*
B: schule
B: FERTIG1B
B: fertig
B: ENTLASSEN1
B: entlassen
B: I also met a hearing girl during my time as an apprentice. Even though, it was quite hard for me.
B: LEHRLING1A*
B: lehrling
B: WIE4A*
B: wie
B: ICH1*
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: wie
B: HÖREND1A
B: hörend
B: MÄDCHEN1
B: mädchen
B: HÖREND1A*
B: hörend
B: MÄDCHEN1*
B: KENNENLERNEN1*
B: kennenlernen
B: HÖREND1A||$INDEX1
B: hörend
B: ICH1*
B: LEIDEN1B^*
B: So if I wanted to get to know a girl, I had to write.
B: ICH1*
B: MUSS1A*
B: muss
B: ICH1*
B: SCHREIBEN1A*
B: ICH2*
B: UNTERHALTUNG1*
B: KENNENLERNEN1*
B: kennen{lernen}
B: SCHREIBEN1A*
B: I did say short words like ”come”, and the hearing girl told me that she thought I spoke just fine.
B: SAGEN1*
B: KURZ3A*
B: kurz
B: WORT1*
B: worte
B: ICH1
B: KOMMEN-AUFFORDERN1*
B: komm
B: $INDEX1*
B: MEIN1
B: HÖREND1A||$INDEX1
B: hörend
B: MÄDCHEN1*
B: mädel
B: SAGEN1*
B: DU1*
B: du
B: SPRECHEN2
B: sprichst
B: gut
B: GUT1
B: DU1
B: I explained to her that I could only say short words, but that I couldn’t say longer words properly.
B: NUR2B
B: ICH2*
B: KURZ3A*
B: kurz kurz kurz
B: FERTIG1B
B: WENN1
B: LANG-ZEIT4A*
B: lang
B: SPRECHEN2*
B: sprechen
B: MITTELMÄSSIG1
B: ABLAUF2^
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: That’s one example of how I experienced it all; I’m deaf and it still worked out.
B: BEISPIEL1*
B: ICH1
B: BIS1*
B: bis
B: JETZT1*
B: jetzt
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: gehörlos
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: What was your job training like?
B: KLAPPT1
B: klapp
A: SCHULE1A*
A: sch{ule}
A: BILDUNG1
A: ausbildung
B: Oh, the job training/
A: wie sieht aus
A: WIE-SIEHT-AUS1
B: WAS1B^*
B: [MG]
A: DU1^*
B: BILDUNG1
B: aus{bildung}
B: … I was in training to become a carpenter.
B: ausbildung
B: ICH2
B: BILDUNG1
B: TISCHLER-SCHREINER1B
B: tischler
B: ICH2*
A: Was that also in Erfurt?
B: DORT1*
A: $INDEX1
A: ERFURT1
A: erfurt
A: auch
A: AUCH1A
A: DU1*
B: No, it was in Leipzig!
B: NEIN1B*
B: nei{n}
B: LEIPZIG2*
B: leipzig
A: Okay, in Leipzig.
B: ||$INDEX1
A: LEIPZIG1*
A: leipzig
B: LEIPZIG2*
B: leipzig
B: I passed the training’s final exam/
B: TISCHLER-SCHREINER1B
B: tischler
B: BILDUNG1
B: ausbildung
B: BESTEHEN1
B: best{anden}
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: Before that, I was in prison.
B: ICH1
B: VORHER4*
B: davor
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: GRUND4B
B: grund
B: ICH2*
B: ich
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: gefängnis
B: gewesen
B: GEWESEN1
B: ICH2*
B: Can I also talk about my time in prison, my attempted escape?
B: DAZU1*
B: zu
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C*
B: gefängnis
C: Sure you can.
B: FLUCHT1A*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: I was in prison because I tried to escape.
B: ICH2*
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: gefängnis
B: GEWESEN1*
B: gewesen
B: ICH2*
B: FLUCHT1B
B: All I wanted was freedom, but I was stuck in the German Democratic Republic, in the east.
B: ICH2*
B: GRUND4B*
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: ICH1
B: WOLLEN2*
B: will
B: freiheit
B: FREI2A*
B: RUND-KUGEL1^*
B: $ALPHA1:D-D-R
B: d-d-r
B: OSTEN1B
B: ost
B: GEHÖREN1^*
B: I wanted to leave the GDR and go to the West, but it was hopeless.
B: RUND6A^
B: $INDEX1*
B: WOLLEN2
B: will
B: WESTEN1A*
B: west
B: DORTHIN-GEHEN1*
B: AUSSICHTSLOS3A*
B: FERTIG1A
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
B: ICH2*
B: In 1984, my family filed an application to emigrate.
B: neunzehnvier{und}achtzig
B: $NUM-SCHNIPS1:9
B: $NUM-HUNDERT3*
B: $NUM-EINER1A:4
B: $NUM-ZEHNER2A:8d*
B: MEIN1
B: FAMILIE1
B: familie
B: MELDUNG1*
B: a{nmelden}
B: MELDUNG1
B: anmelden
B: ausreiseantrag
B: AUSREISE1*
B: POSTER1^
B: GEBEN-FESTHALTEN1A*
B: We fought for four years, but nothing came of it.
B: PROTEST1^*
B: JAHR1A*
B: vier jahre
B: AUSSICHTSLOS3A||$INDEX1
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: We continued to fight, so that we would be able to emigrate, and we didn’t end up tearing apart the application form.
B: FLUCHT1A*
B: AUSREISE1*
B: ausreise
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: ZUSAMMENSTOSS1^*
B: kämpfen kämpfen
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: AUFGEBEN1*
B: [MG]
B: ZERREISSEN1*
B: BLEIBEN1*
B: bleib
B: I kept an eye on the whole situation. I was sure that I didn’t want to stay in the GDR, everything there was too narrow for me.
B: ICH1
B: BEOBACHTEN5*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: ICH1*
B: SELBST1A
B: selb{st}
B: $GEST^*
B: $ALPHA1:D-D-R*
B: d-d-r
B: BEREICH1A^
B: OFT1B^
B: regel
B: VIERECK5^*
B: I just wanted to go to the West; I told my self to be courageous.
B: ICH1
B: WOLLEN2
B: will
B: FLUCHT1A
B: fliehen
B: WESTEN1A
B: ICH2*
B: ich
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ICH2*
B: $INDEX1*
B: SAGEN1*
B: MUSS1A
B: muss
B: MUT1*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: I kept other deaf people in view, and finally I asked two or three deaf people I was hanging out with all the time whether they were also considering trying to escape.
B: ICH1*
B: EINIGE1*
B: ICH2*
B: BESCHEID1A*
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: BEREICH1A^*
B: ICH2
B: WER3||$INDEX1
B: wer
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: STAMM4B*
B: stamm
B: ICH1*
B: $NUM-EINER1A:2
B: $NUM-EINER1A:3d*
B: $NUM-EINER1A:2d*
B: $NUM-EINER1A:3d
B: ICH2*
B: BEISPIEL1^*
B: FLUCHT1A
B: I found out that they also wanted to go.
B: $INDEX1
B: TAUB1A^
B: GERN1*||AUFZÄHLEN1C*
B: ICH2*
B: WIE4A*
B: wie wie
B: WOLLEN2||$LIST1:3of3d*
B: will
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: SAGEN1
B: sa{ge}
B: AUCH1A
B: auch
B: ICH1
B: ich
B: WOLLEN2
B: will
B: NEIN3B^*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: I didn’t know whether I should drop out of my job training or whether it was too important.
B: ICH2*
B: BILDUNG1
B: ausbildung
B: WICHTIG1
B: wichtig
B: $GEST^*
B: ABBRUCH1
B: abbrechen
B: In the end, I decided to do it - this was a life-changing decision, it was more important than the training.
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: EGAL3*
B: egal
B: ICH2*
B: WICHTIG1
B: wichtig
B: MEIN1*
B: mein
B: LEBEN1G*
B: leben
B: BILDUNG1*
B: aus{bildung}
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
B: MEIN1*
B: mein
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: Those two had already prepared the escape.
B: ICH2*
B: $INDEX1
B: TAUB1A^*
B: VORBEREITUNG2
B: vorbereiten
B: FERTIG1B
B: We took the train from Leipzig to the border; it was supposed to continue to Frankfurt on the Main.
B: ICH1*
B: ZUG1D
B: zug
B: VON3*
B: LEIPZIG2*||$INDEX1
B: leipzig
B: ||BIS1
B: bis
B: GRENZE2*
B: grenze
B: $PROD*
B: $INDEX1
B: SOLL1
B: soll
B: DORTHIN-GEHEN1*
B: frankfurt main
B: FRANKFURT1
B: $ALPHA1:M-I-N
B: DORT1*
B: SOLL1
B: soll
B: The train approached the border, where the customs inspection was happening. There we got arrested.
B: ICH1*
B: $INDEX1||$PROD*
B: ICH1*
B: ZUG1B*
B: zug
B: $PROD*
B: BIS1
B: bis
B: ICH1*
B: $PROD*
B: grenze
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: DEUTSCH1*
B: deutsch
B: ZOLL3
B: zoll
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: $PROD*
B: VERHAFTEN2
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: We were hiding underneath the seats.
B: ZUG1B*
B: SITZEN1A
B: sitz
B: UNTEN1*
A: Underneath the seats?
A: MERKWÜRDIG1*
B: $PROD*
A: $INDEX1
A: UNTER1A*
B: Yes, underneath the seats, but unfortunately they still found us.
B: ICH1*
B: GEWESEN1
B: gewe{sen}
B: $PROD*
B: VERHAFTEN2
B: [MG]
B: MIST4*
B: ICH2*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: That was the end.
B: ICH2*
B: ich
B: AUS-VORBEI1
B: aus
B: FERTIG1B
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: [MG]
B: We were arrested and brought to the Stasi prison for interrogation.
B: $PROD*
B: ENDE1^*
B: dann
B: $GEST^*
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: DORT1
B: GESPRÄCH2
B: At the prison, there was a magistrate, or rather, a Stasi operative, and an interpreter.
B: gefängnis
B: ||$INDEX1
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C*
B: $ALPHA1:D-D-R*
B: d-d-r
B: POLIZEI1A*
B: p{olizei}
B: DETEKTIV1C^*
B: pa{rtei}
B: PARTEI1^*
B: po{lizei}
B: STASI1C*
B: stasi
B: POLIZEI1A*
B: polizei
B: DAZU1*
B: dazu
B: dolmetscher
B: DOLMETSCHER1
B: EINSTELLEN-ARBEIT1A*
B: ICH2*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: They asked me why I wanted to leave the GDR.
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: fra{gen}
B: FRAGE1
B: WARUM1*
B: WARUM3B*
B: warum
B: $ALPHA1:D-D-R
B: d-d-r
B: VERLASSEN1A
B: verlassen
B: I told them there were several reasons, for example, first, I’m deaf, second, I’m not a spy, and also, I wanted to be free.
B: ICH1*
B: GRUND4B
B: grund
B: ICH1
B: LISTE1B*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ICH2*
B: SELBST1A
B: selbst
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ICH1*
B: KEIN1*
B: kein
B: SPION1*
B: spion
B: KEIN1*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ICH1
B: WOLLEN2*
B: will
B: FREI2A
B: frei
B: FERTIG1B*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: Also, starting in 1984, my family had fought for four years for their application to emigrate to be accepted, but it never worked out.
B: ICH2*
B: UND3
B: und
B: MEIN1
B: mein
B: FAMILIE1
B: familie
B: MELDUNG1*
B: a
B: ausreiseantrag
B: AUSREISE1*
B: ANTRAG2
B: neunzehnvier{und}achtzig
B: $NUM-SCHNIPS1:9
B: $NUM-HUNDERT3*
B: $NUM-EINER1A:4
B: $NUM-ZEHNER2A:8d
B: BIS-HEUTE2
B: bis heute
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: SEHEN1
B: sehe
B: JAHR1A*
B: vier jahre
B: PROTEST1^*
B: kampf kampf kampf
B: $INDEX1
B: KLAPPT1*
B: klappt n{icht}
B: AUSREISE1*
B: ausreise
B: $INDEX2
B: KLAPPT1
B: klappt ni{cht}
B: That’s why I attempted to escape.
B: ICH2
B: DESHALB1
B: deshalb
B: ICH1*
B: VERSUCHEN2
B: versuch
B: ICH1*
B: FLUCHT1B
B: The Stasi official wasn’t amused, but because of the interpreter the court could understand me. Later I had to sign my confession.
B: $INDEX1||$INDEX1
B: PARTEI1^*||$INDEX1
B: stasi
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: [MG]
B: WISSEN2B||$INDEX1
B: weiß
B: GERICHT1
B: gericht
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: VERSTEHEN1*
B: versteh
B: FERTIG1B
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: UNTERSCHREIBEN1B
B: schreib
B: ICH1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: ICH2*
B: VERSTEHEN1*
B: verst{ehen}
B: ICH2*
B: UNTERSCHREIBEN1B*
B: schreiben
B: dolmetsch
B: DOLMETSCHER1
B: UNTERHALTUNG1
B: UNTERSCHREIBEN1B
B: schreiben
B: KLAPPT1
B: Some time passed, and every two or three months the Stasi interrogated me again, but I kept giving them the very same reasons that I had told them about and signed at the first hearing. Yet, they kept interrogating.
B: ABLAUF2^
B: $INDEX1*
B: WIE-IMMER1*
B: FRAGE1*
B: SPÄTER4*
B: NOCHMAL2A
B: noch mal
B: FRAGE1*
B: ||BEISEITE1A*
B: MONAT1*
B: zwei
B: MONAT1*
B: NOCHMAL2A
B: noch mal
B: FRAGE1
B: frage
B: ICH1
B: DASSELBE2A
B: selbe
B: ERZÄHLEN4*
B: AUFZÄHLEN1A*
B: SO1*
B: so so
B: TEXT3^*
B: kontroll{e}
B: $NUM-ORD1:3d
B: noch mal
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: ||AUFZÄHLEN1A
B: SO1*||AUFZÄHLEN1C*
B: so so kontroll
B: Yes, that’s how the Stasi operated.
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: STASI1C*
B: stasi
B: SO3*
B: They continued their interrogations for quite some time, but at some point, they gave up and no longer continued to suspect me of being a spy.
B: REIHE1^*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: $INDEX1
B: AUFGEBEN1
B: aufgeb
B: $INDEX1
B: SPION1*
B: spion
B: NEIN2A*
B: But my lawyer protected me.
B: MEIN1*
B: mein
B: rechtsanwalt
B: RECHT1
B: ANWALT1
B: $INDEX1
B: SCHUTZ1A*
B: schutz
B: ICH1*
B: SCHUTZ1A*
B: schutz
B: He stated that I was not politically active or spoke badly about the GDR.
B: $INDEX1||$INDEX1
B: DU1*
B: POLITIK1
B: politik
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: ÜBER1
B: über
B: $ALPHA1:D-D-R
B: d-d-r
B: DISKRIMINIERUNG2*
B: [MG]
B: KEIN9
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: But I was just deaf and wanted to be free.
B: STIMMT1A*
B: $LIST1:1of1*
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: GRUND4B
B: grund
B: WOLLEN2*
B: will
B: FREI2A
B: frei
B: The court and the prosecutor wanted to sentence me to three to four years in prison.
B: $INDEX1
B: $GEST^
B: GERICHT1
B: gericht
B: WOLLEN2
B: will
B: staatsanwalt
B: MANNSCHAFT1^*
B: ANWALT1
B: WOLLEN2
B: will
B: JAHR1A*
B: drei bis
B: JAHR1A*
B: vier jahre
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: GEHÖREN1^
B: My lawyer wanted to support deaf people and was on our side, because he saw that deaf people were suffering a lot. He didn’t believe I was a spy.
B: MEIN1*||$INDEX1
B: MEIN1*
B: rechtsanwalt
B: RECHT1*
B: ANWALT1*
B: WOLLEN2*
B: will
B: UNTERSTÜTZEN4*
B: un{terstützen}
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
B: TAUB1A^||$INDEX1
B: stumm
B: LEIDEN1A
B: leid
B: DU1
B: du
B: SPION1*
B: spion
B: KEIN9
B: STIMMT1^
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
B: BEISPIEL1^*
B: He based his defence on the fact that I had been waiting for my application to emigrate for four years, and that I had been fighting for it a lot.
B: ICH2
B: MELDUNG1
B: anmelden
B: AUSREISE1*
B: aus{reise}
B: JAHR1A*
B: vier jahre
B: PROTEST1*
B: pro{te}st pro{te}st
B: WARTEN1B*
B: warten
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: I got a verdict of ”not guilty” and was relieved.
B: DARUM1
B: daru{m}
B: freispruch
B: FREI1
B: SPRECHEN4
B: ICH1
B: ich
B: WOHL1
B: I was allowed to move to Western Germany immediately.
B: IRGENDWANN1^
B: SOFORT6
B: gleich
B: AUSREISE1*
B: ausreise
B: WEG-FORT1*
B: weg
B: FERTIG1A
B: WESTEN1B
B: UMZIEHEN2*
A: Where in the West did you go, to Frankfurt?
B: WESTEN1A
B: west
A: $ORAL^
A: west
A: wo
A: WOHIN1*
B: DEUTSCH1*
B: To Cologne.
A: DU1*
B: KÖLN2A
B: köln
A: FRANKFURT1*
A: frankfurt
B: DORT1*
A: Okay, to Cologne.
A: KÖLN2A*
A: köln
B: So, then I was in the West, in Cologne, and everything felt kind of different there.
B: KÖLN2A*
B: köln
B: ICH1
B: DORT1
B: WESTEN1A*
B: westen
B: BEREICH1A^
B: ANDERS2
B: anders
B: KÖRPER1^
B: Deaf people in the West were different somehow.
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: WESTEN1B
B: westen
B: WIMMELN1^*
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
B: My father’s cousin and some of his relatives lived there, and I visited them from time to time, but I didn’t really feel comfortable in the West.
B: MEIN1*
B: mein
B: VATER1*||$INDEX1
B: vater
B: GEHÖREN1^*
B: VERWANDT1*
B: ve{rwandte}
B: COUSINE1*
B: cousine
B: VERWANDT1
B: verwandte
B: DA1
B: da
B: ICH1
B: DORT1
B: ABLAUF2^*
B: [MG]
B: SELBST1A
B: selbst
B: WESTEN1A*
A: Were those relatives deaf or hearing?
B: BEREICH1A^
B: [MG]
A: VERWANDT1*
A: verwa{ndte}
A: ALLE1B^*
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
A: HÖREND1A
A: höre{nd}
B: They were hearing.
B: HÖREND1A
B: hörend
A: BEREICH1A^*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
B: ||$INDEX2
B: It was good there, sure, but it was not really my thing.
B: ICH1
B: $INDEX1
B: GUT1
B: WIMMELN1^*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ICH1*
B: SELBST1A
B: selbst
B: EINIGERMASSEN1*
B: [MG]
B: I wanted to see what it would be like in Berlin and went there.
B: ICH1*
B: FEHLER1^
B: ICH1*
B: berlin
B: BERLIN1A*
B: DORT1
B: berlin
B: BERLIN1A*
B: DORT1
B: ICH1
B: FAHREN3*
B: They had wild parties with great atmosphere, it was a completely different nightlife.
B: HIER1
B: hier
B: $INDEX1
B: PARTY1A*
B: STIMMUNG3*
B: stimmung
B: $LIST1:2of2d
B: nachtleben
B: NACHT2
B: LEBEN1F
B: HIER1
B: nachtleben
B: NACHT2
B: LEBEN1F
B: $LIST1:2of2d*
B: ABLAUF2^*
B: PARTY1A
B: I thought about which of the two would be better for me.
B: ICH1
B: $INDEX1
B: ICH1
B: BESSER1||$INDEX1
B: besser
B: ICH2
B: $GEST^*
B: Finally, I ended up deciding to leave Cologne behind, so I moved to Berlin.
B: ICH2
B: [MG]
B: AB8*
B: ab
B: KÖLN2A
B: ICH1*
B: AB8*
B: ab
B: ICH1*
B: DORTHIN-GEHEN1*
B: berlin
B: BERLIN1A
B: HIER1
B: FERTIG1B
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: My life continued there, I had a hearing girlfriend at some point, but that was over some time later as well.
B: ABLAUF2^
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: FREUND-FEST1*||$NUM-EINER1A:1d
B: freundin
B: HÖREND1A*
B: hörend
B: AB1A*
B: $LIST1:2of2d
B: There were many things I found interesting, I experienced a lot, and I had many different jobs.
B: INTERESSE1A
B: interessant
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*||$NUM-EINER1A:3d
A: You were like a master in the art of living.
B: ABLAUF2^
A: LEBEN1C*
A: leben
B: VIEL1A*||EINIGE1*
B: viel
A: FISCH1^
A: [MG]
B: $PROD*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
B: ICH2*
B: ARBEITEN2
B: arb{eiten}
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN2^
B: VERSCHIEDEN2B
B: $PROD*
B: Now I have a family, a girlfriend and a baby, and she stayed with me to this day.
B: JETZT1
B: jetzt
B: $NUM-EINER1A:1d
B: eine
B: FAMILIE1
B: familie
B: FREUND-FEST1
B: BEISPIEL1^*
B: ABLAUF2^
B: GEBURT1A
B: BIS-HEUTE2
B: bis heute
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: $GEST-HÄNDE-FALTEN1^
C: Maybe you could talk a bit more about your job training in Leipzig? About the different jobs people could learn there, and about what it was like with the people there?
B: Well, jobs? I/
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: BERUF1A
B: berufe
B: ICH1
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: In Leipzig I was in a home/
B: LEIPZIG2*
B: leipzig
B: $INDEX1
B: HEIM3
B: heim
B: SCHLAFEN1^
B: [MG]
C: Please sign towards her.
B: In Leipzig I was together with lots of deaf people.
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
B: ICH1
B: LEIPZIG2*
B: leipzig
B: DORT1
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: GRUPPE1A*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ||$NUM-EINER1A:1d
B: We got up to a lot of mischief.
B: DUMMHEIT1
B: dummheit
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
B: But of course the job training was very important as well.
B: BILDUNG1
B: ausbildung
B: WICHTIG1
B: wichtig
B: ARBEITEN1*
B: arbeit
B: BILDUNG1
B: ausbildung
B: But I was in prison for eight or nine months in the meantime.
B: ICH1
B: IN-ENTHALTEN2*
B: in
B: MASS-HORIZONTAL4B^
B: zwischen
B: ICH2
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: GEFÄNGNIS3A
B: ICH1*
B: MONAT1*
B: acht
B: MONAT1*
B: neun
B: IN-ENTHALTEN2
B: MASS-HORIZONTAL4B^
B: So I lost a bit of time.
B: VERLUST1A*
B: verlust
B: MASS-HORIZONTAL4B^*
B: When I got out of prison, I concentrated on my training to become a carpenter. I passed the final exam and got my certificate.
B: ICH2*
B: FERTIG1B*
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: FREI1
B: frei
B: $INDEX1
B: WICHTIG1*
B: DORT1
B: BILDUNG1
B: ausbildung
B: ARBEITEN2
B: arbeit
B: TISCHLER-SCHREINER1B
B: tischler
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: BESTEHEN1
B: best{anden}
B: KLAPPT1
B: ZEIGEN-PAPIER2*
B: I was relieved.
B: ICH2*
B: KÖRPER1^*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: I spent a lot of time with deaf people and we did a lot of stupid things.
B: ABLAUF2^
B: ICH1
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A*
B: gehörlos
B: GRUPPE1A*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: DUMMHEIT1
B: dummheit
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
B: It was a great time, I also played soccer, for example. Well, what else could I talk about?
B: TOLL1A*
B: toll
B: FUSSBALL1B
B: fußball
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*||AUFZÄHLEN1C
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: There was a lot of alcohol.
B: $LIST1:1of1d
B: ALKOHOL1||AUFZÄHLEN1C*
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
B: It was an adventurous time.
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN2^
C: Would you maybe be willing to talk about your eight to nine months in prison and the things you experienced there?
B: ABENTEUER1
B: abenteuer
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: Yes, so, I was in prison during that time/
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: ABER1^
B: ICH1
B: ich
B: GEFÄNGNIS3B*
B: IN-ENTHALTEN2*
B: in
A: Were you the only deaf person and everyone else was hearing?
A: ALLEIN2
A: allein
A: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: Yes, I was the only one.
A: ALLE1A
A: alle
A: HÖREND1A
A: hörend
B: NEIN2B*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
B: ICH1*
B: ALLEIN2*
B: allein
B: ICH1*
B: ALLEIN2*
B: allein
B: ICH1*
B: I wasn’t allowed to be with deaf people for the fear of treason, so we were separated.
B: ICH1*
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: GRUPPE1A*
B: VERRATEN1A*
B: verra{ten}
B: NEIN2B*
B: TRENNEN2*
B: I was in prison for eight months.
B: ICH1*
B: MONAT1*
B: acht monate
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: Were you in prison during GDR times, I mean, in the east?
A: $ALPHA1:D-R
A: d-d-r
A: DORT1
A: gefängnis
A: GEFÄNGNIS3A
A: DU1*
B: Yes, the prison was in the East, not in the West.
B: OSTEN1A*
B: ost ost ost
A: ZEIT5A*
A: OSTEN1B*
A: $GEST^
B: WESTEN1A
B: west
B: KEIN8
B: [MG]
B: OSTEN1A
B: ost
B: ICH2*
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: HIER1
B: FERTIG1B
B: In prison, there were strict mealtimes. We had breakfast and then a regular 8-hour workday.
B: [MG]
B: ICH2
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: $LIST1:1of1d
B: ESSEN2
B: essen
B: MESSEN1C
B: maß
B: ZEIT1
B: GANZTAGS1B*
B: MORGEN3*
B: morgen
B: GANZTAGS1B*
B: WIE3B
B: ARBEITEN1
B: arbeit
B: STUNDE2B*
B: acht stunden
B: DASSELBE2A*
B: {das}selb
B: So it started in the morning and went on until 6 p.m.
B: MORGEN3
B: morgen
B: $PROD*
B: GANZTAGS1B*
B: ABEND2
B: abend
A: So, you didn’t work there? Did you just eat, and beside that, you just killed time, or what?
A: BEDEUTUNG1^*
A: bedeutet
A: ARBEITEN2
A: arbeit
B: $NUM-UHR1C:6d
B: sechs
A: NICHT3B
B: No, I worked on clamps for braces, those you wear with trousers.
B: NEIN2B*
A: ESSEN2
A: essen
B: IRRTUM3^
A: FERTIG1A*
B: NUR2B
A: LAUFEN-HERUM1*
B: EINFACH1*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
B: SAGEN1^*
B: EINFACH1
B: einfach
B: $PROD*
B: HOSENTRÄGER1
B: BASTELN1B*
B: basteln
B: SCHRAUBE3*
B: PROBLEM2A^*
B: For a hundred clamps you got fifty pfennig [former German currency].
B: SAGEN1^
B: $NUM-HUNDERTER1:1
B: hun{dert}
B: STÜCK2
B: stück
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN2^*
B: $NUM-ZEHNER2A:5*
B: fünfzig
B: PFENNIG1
B: pfennig
B: In total, it was enough to buy a bit of food or tobacco.
B: MULTIPLIZIEREN1
B: mal
B: RECHNEN1*
B: $LIST1:1of1d
B: KAUFEN1A
B: ka{u}fen
B: ICH1*
B: ESSEN2
B: essen
B: $LIST1:2of2d
B: TABAK2
B: tabak
B: KAUFEN1A
B: AUFZÄHLEN1A*
B: I also had to work on the connections of the electrical cords again and again. I had to install tiny little screws.
B: STROM5A
B: strom
B: OBEN1
B: $PROD*
B: VERBAND2A^
B: ??
B: $PROD*
B: SCHRAUBE3*
B: schrau{ben} schrau{ben} schrauben
B: ICH1*
B: SCHMAL1A^*
B: MUSS1A*
B: muss
B: SCHRAUBE3*
B: schraube
B: KLEIN9
B: [MG]
B: $PROD*
B: alles
B: $PROD*
B: Those couldn’t be screwed in too deeply, just until the middle, so that the cords were secured, but not too tightly.
B: ABER1*
B: a{ber}
B: $PROD*
B: [MG]
B: TIEF1*
B: tief
B: NEIN2B*
B: LOCKER1*
B: lock{er}
B: $PROD*
B: LOCKER1*
B: lock{er}
B: $PROD*
B: $INDEX1
B: $PROD*
B: kabel
B: $PROD*
B: fest
B: ICH1*
B: $INDEX1||MASS-VERTIKAL2A^
B: ICH1*
B: $PROD*
B: After I had fastened ten screws, I wanted to stop, but I wasn’t allowed to. I had to fasten 80, 90 or 100 screws, for which I got one or two German mark [former German currency].
B: $NUM-EINER1A:10
B: zehn
B: STÜCK2*
B: stück
B: VORBEI2A
B: BIS1
B: bis
B: $NUM-HUNDERTER1:1
B: hundert
B: EURO1*
B: $NUM-HUNDERTER1:1
B: hun{dert}
B: $NUM-ZEHNER2A:8d
B: achtzig
B: $NUM-ZEHNER2A:9d
B: FERTIG1B
B: $NUM-MARK1:1
B: ein mark
B: $NUM-MARK1:2
B: zwei mark
B: So I had to work in prison as punishment.
B: ICH1*
B: ARBEITEN1
B: arb{eiten}
B: SO1*
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: WAS5^
B: zur
B: strafe
B: STRAFE1A
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: Overall, prison life was/
B: ICH1
B: PFLEGE2^
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
A: What was communication like in prison?
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: KOMMUNIKATION1C
A: kommunikation
A: wie sieht aus
A: WIE-SIEHT-AUS1
A: BEREICH1A^
A: wie sieht aus
A: WIE-SIEHT-AUS1
B: True, that’s quite interesting.
A: $GEST-OFF^
B: INTERESSE1A
B: So, I was the only deaf person among all those hearing people. Once, four or five hearing people came to me and asked how I ended up in prison.
B: ICH2
B: IN1
B: in
B: ICH1
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: ALLE1A
B: HÖREND1A
B: hörend
B: $NUM-EINER1A:4
B: vier
B: $NUM-EINER1A:5*
B: fünf
B: HÖREND1A*
B: KENNENLERNEN1
B: KOMMEN1
B: $INDEX1
B: WAS-BEDEUTET1
B: was is{t}
B: I told them about my escape.
B: ICH1
B: FLUCHT1A
B: $INDEX1
B: a
B: Another guy told me that he was in prison because of some robbery; others were there due to different felonies.
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
B: ICH1*
B: WAS1A*
B: EINBRUCH3^*
B: verbrecher
B: $LIST1:1of1d*
B: DIEBSTAHL1*
B: diebstahl
B: ANDERS2*
B: andere
B: $INDEX1*||AUFZÄHLEN1C*
B: [MG]
B: VERSCHIEDEN2B*
B: verschied
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: They asked me if I was deaf.
B: SAGEN1
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: TAUB1A^
B: I explained to them that I was deaf, and they asked what I was doing with my hands, so I showed them finger spelling. But there was no printer, so I had to write down and draw the alphabet on a piece of paper, all by hand.
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: ERKLÄREN1
B: ICH2
B: TAUB1A^
B: stumm
B: $GEST^*
B: $ALPHA1:A
B: a
B: FINGERALPHABET1*
B: ICH2
B: DRUCKEN-PAPIER1
B: drucker
B: ZEICHEN2^*
B: KEIN9
B: MEIN1*
B: KANN2B^
B: PAPIER4
B: [MG]
B: $ALPHA1:A-B-#
B: a-b
B: $ALPHA1:A
B: a
B: BIS1*
B: bis
B: $ALPHA1:Z
B: z
B: ICH2
B: SCHREIBEN1E*
B: schreib
B: ZEICHEN2^
B: malen
B: $ALPHA1:A*
B: a
B: $ALPHA1:B*
B: b
B: ICH1*
B: SCHREIBEN1C^*
B: ICH1
B: HALTEN-BLATT1A*
B: SCHREIBEN1B*
B: The hearing guys looked at it.
B: HÖREND1A*
B: hörend
B: HALTEN-BLATT1A*
B: FERTIG1B
B: At night I noticed that the hearing guy in the bunk above mine took the piece of paper and practiced finger spelling, but I didn’t think anything of it and fell asleep.
B: ABEND2
B: abend
B: HALTEN-BLATT1A
B: [MG]
B: $INDEX2*
B: HÖREND1A*
B: hörend
B: $PROD*
B: ABEND2
B: abend
B: BETT2A
B: bett
B: ICH2
B: $PROD*
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: gefängnis
B: $PROD*
B: OBEN1
B: HÖREND1A
B: hörend
B: $PROD*
B: ÜBEN1*
B: üben
B: KENNEN1A*
B: kenn
B: ICH2
B: SCHAUEN2*
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
B: When we woke up the next morning, the man in the bed above mine leaned down and said ”good morning”, using finger spelling.
B: MORGEN1A
B: morgen
B: FRÜH2*
B: früh
B: HÖREND1A*
B: hörend
B: $PROD*
B: BETT2A
B: bett
B: $PROD*
B: $ALPHA1:G_2-U-T-E-N-M-O-R-G-E-N*
B: guten morgen
B: I was surprised and congratulated him on having learned to finger spell.
B: ICH1
B: [MG]
B: APPLAUS1
B: DU1
B: GUT3
B: GEBÄRDEN1B
B: FINGERALPHABET1*
B: fingeralpha{bet}
B: KANN2B*
B: kann
B: That’s what it was like in prison.
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ABLAUF2^
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: gefängnis
B: SO1*
B: so
B: I went for a silent walk around the yard, but that was pretty much it.
B: ICH1
B: AUSSEN2^
B: hof
B: STILL2
B: GEHEN2^*
B: spazieren
B: FERTIG1B
B: Once a week I was allowed to borrow books from the library, but that quickly became quite boring.
B: $INDEX1
B: ICH1*
B: bücherhandel
B: BUCH1B*
B: HANDLUNG1A
B: einmal
B: $NUM-EINER1A:1*
B: WOCHE1A
B: MAL3*
B: mal
B: $PROD*
B: LANGEWEILE1*
B: langw{eilig}
B: TEXT1B^*
B: ICH2
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: I also played cards, for example, what’s the name of that game? Rummy?
B: ICH1
B: ich
B: mache
B: MACHEN1*
B: $GEST^
B: MEISTENS1B
B: meist
B: ICH1*
B: $INDEX1*
B: SPIELEN1
B: spiel
B: KARTENSPIEL2*
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: KARTENSPIEL2*
B: ro{mmé}
B: $ALPHA1:R-O-M-E
B: rommé
B: KARTENSPIEL2*
B: rommé
B: [MG]
B: $LIST1:2of2d*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: I also played chess and read books, but I can’t really think of much else.
B: SCHACH1B
B: schach
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: [MG]
B: BUCH1B
B: bücher
B: ODER4B*
B: VERSCHIEDENES1^
B: FERTIG1B*
B: BIS1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: The food was really good.
B: $LIST1:1of1d
B: ESSEN2
B: essen
B: GUT1*
B: We played for the meat that we got on Sundays. If I lost the card game, I had to give my fine meat to my opponent the upcoming Sunday.
B: WENN1
B: ZUERST1B
B: zuerst
B: ICH1*
B: SPIELEN1
B: spiel
B: $INDEX1*
B: KARTENSPIEL2
B: WENN1
B: VERLOREN1
B: FÜR1
B: für
B: GUT1^*
B: NÄCHSTE1
B: WENN1
B: SONNTAG1C
B: sonntag
B: $NUM-EINER1A:1d
B: ein
B: MAL3*
B: mal
B: GUT1^*
B: fein
B: fleisch
B: FLEISCH13
B: $PROD*
B: ICH1
B: FUTSCH2
B: [MG]
B: $PROD*
B: Yet, if I won, I would get their fine meat. So it went round, and we took turns.
B: ||WENN1
B: ||ICH2*
B: ||GEWINNEN1
B: [MG]
B: ICH1*
B: BEKOMMEN3*
B: gegenseitig
B: DISKUSSION1A^*
B: HANDLUNG1^*
B: DISKUSSION1A^*
B: We had a lot of fun playing cards/
B: SPASS1
B: spaß
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: UND2B*
B: KARTENSPIEL2*
B: Or sometimes the person who lost had to do ten push-ups on the spot, like a punishment. Well, that’s how we killed time.
B: VERLOREN1
B: $INDEX1
B: SAGEN1^*
B: $NUM-EINER1A:10
B: zehn
B: MAL3*
B: mal
B: LIEGESTÜTZ1
B: $INDEX1
B: LIEGESTÜTZ1*
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN3^
B: STRAFE1A
B: strafe
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ICH2*
B: WIMMELN1^*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: ABLAUF2^
A: What happened if you won?
A: GEWINNEN1
A: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: WIE-SIEHT-AUS1
A: wie sieht aus
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: GEWINNEN1
A: [MG]
B: If you won?
A: WIE-SIEHT-AUS1
A: wie sieht aus
B: WENN1*
B: GEWINNEN1
B: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: Yes, did the winner always get meat?
B: WENN1*
A: WENN1*
A: FLEISCH1A*
A: fleisch
B: GEWINNEN1
B: [MG]
B: Yes, so, for example the winner would get my meat and then had two pieces of meat on his plate.
A: IMMER1A
A: immer
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: FLEISCH1A
A: fleisch fleisch
B: FLEISCH11*
B: fleisch
B: $PROD*
A: $GEST-OFF^
B: GEWINNEN1*
B: [MG]
B: $PROD*
B: fleisch
B: HÖREND1A*
B: hö{rend}
B: SEIN-IHR1*
B: $PROD*
B: fleisch
B: $PROD*
B: I had to silently accept that and would only have potatoes and red cabbage, I didn’t have any meat.
B: ICH1*
B: SCHWEIGEN3^
B: FERTIG1B*
B: SCHWINDELN1^
B: kartoffeln
B: rotkraut
B: ROT1A*
B: KOHL1
B: FERTIG1B
B: WO1A
B: wo
B: BLEIBEN3
B: bleibt
B: fleisch
B: FLEISCH13*
B: $PROD*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: ICH2
B: ZUR-SEITE-SCHIEBEN1*
B: I mixed my food with breadcrumbs so that it would look like more and ate it.
B: ICH1
B: DAZU1*
B: {da}zu
B: ICH2*
B: BROT3A
B: brot
B: $PROD*
B: DAZU1*
B: DICK4
B: dick
B: ICH2*
B: ESSEN2
B: essen
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: Well, that’s what prison was like/
B: ABLAUF2
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: At first I thought that I would have to stay in prison for three or four years, and I tried not to be afraid.
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: gefäng{nis}
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: DENKEN1A
B: da{chte}
B: ICH1
B: DENKEN1A*
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: DENKEN1A
B: da{chte}
B: ICH1
B: JAHR1A*
B: DENKEN1A*
B: GEFÄNGNIS3B
B: gefängnis
B: ICH1*
B: DENKEN1A
B: da{chte}
B: ICH2*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: JAHR1A*
B: drei
B: JAHR1A*
B: vier jahr
B: angst
B: ICH1*
B: ANGST1*
B: NICHT3B*
B: [MG]
B: ICH2*
B: I knew that it would be hard and that I would have to show courage to get through all that.
B: HART1A*
B: hart
B: MUT1*
B: mut
B: ICH2*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: But instead of keeping me for three or four years, I got released after only eight months; I felt very relieved.
B: JAHR1A*
B: [MG]
B: JAHR1A*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: GRUND4B*
B: grund
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: MONAT1*
B: acht {m}o{nate}
B: FREI1
B: frei
B: ICH1
B: WOHL1
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: Only eight months, that’s good.
A: MONAT1*
A: acht monat
B: I got released, but didn‘t go to the west immediately. I first finished my job training, and then I moved to the West. Still, in the west/
A: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
A: [MG]
B: FREI1
B: frei
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: $INDEX1
A: GUT1*
A: gut
B: SOFORT6
B: gleich
B: AUSREISE1*
B: aus{reise}
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: BILDUNG1*
B: aus{bildung}
B: BESTEHEN1
B: be{standen}
B: FERTIG1B*
B: SOFORT6
B: gleich
B: WESTEN1B
B: west
B: UMZIEHEN2*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: [MG]
A: Wait, can you explain that a bit further? So you were in prison for eight months and then did your job training, or what?
B: ABLAUF2^
A: DU1*
B: ABER1*
B: TROTZDEM2A
B: tro{tzdem}
A: BILDUNG1*
A: ausbildung
B: WESTEN1B*
A: WIE-SIEHT-AUS1
A: wie sieht aus
A: phase
A: PHASE2B
A: FERTIG4*
A: MONAT1*
A: acht monate
B: Again, I was in training for two years, then it got interrupted.
A: PHASE2B
A: wie sieht aus
A: WIE-SIEHT-AUS1
B: ZEITRAUM1*
B: BILDUNG1*
A: $GEST-OFF^
B: aus{bildung}
B: $NUM-LEHRJAHR2:1d*
B: ein
B: $NUM-LEHRJAHR2:2d*
B: UNTERBRECHEN3*
B: $PROD*
B: ZEITRAUM1
B: HINEINSTECKEN3^*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: People told me that my instructor was sorry I had to go to prison.
B: LACHEN1^*
B: tut mir leid
B: TUT-MIR-LEID3*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: LEIDER1
B: leider
B: AUF-PERSON1*
B: ICH2*
B: $GEST^*
B: [MG]
A: And what were the exams like?
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
A: $GEST^
A: TEST1
A: prüfung
B: PHASE1A^*
B: No, before I went to prison I finished my internship and also did the written exam.
A: WIE-SIEHT-AUS1
A: wie sieht aus
B: TEST1*
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: $GEST-OFF^
B: FERTIG1B*
B: PRAKTIKUM1*
B: praktikum
B: SCHREIBEN1E*
B: schrei{ben}
B: FERTIG1B*
B: BESTEHEN1*
B: bestan{den}
B: I only did manual work during my time in prison. I went to Mühlhausen afterwards; it’s close to Leipzig.
B: [MG]
B: IN1*
B: PHASE1A*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: GEFÄNGNIS3C
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ARBEITEN2
B: arb{eiten}
B: WIMMELN1^*
B: ARBEITEN2
B: arb{eiten}
B: DORT1*
B: SCHLAFEN1^*
B: ICH2*
B: LEIPZIG2*||$INDEX1
B: leipzig
B: NEIN2B*
B: mühlhausen
B: $ALPHA1:M||$INDEX1
B: BEREICH1A^*
B: There was another training facility there, and the training supervisor kept an eye on me for six or seven months. In the end he told me that I had passed it and that I could transfer.
B: ICH2*
B: ARBEITEN2*
B: ar{beiten}
B: TISCHLER-SCHREINER1B*
B: tischler
B: VERBINDUNG2
B: gebunden
B: DORT1*
B: $INDEX1
B: ICH2
B: ARBEITEN2
B: arb{eiten}
B: $PROD*
B: PROBE3B^
B: neugierig
B: MONAT1*
B: sechs monat
B: MONAT1*
B: SEHEN-AUF5*
B: ARBEITEN2
B: arb{eiten}
B: ICH1*
B: WIMMELN1^*
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
B: BESTEHEN1
B: best{anden}
B: ||$PROD*
B: FERTIG1B
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: I moved to the West right away.
B: ABLAUF2^*
B: SOFORT6
B: gleich
B: WESTEN1B
B: west
B: UMZIEHEN2*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: That’s how it continued/
B: ABLAUF2^
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^
C: First, you were in Leipzig, in the vocational training centre for deaf people. Which jobs could deaf people learn there, where did the deaf people come from?
B: Right, first/
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: [MG]
B: ZUERST1B*
B: On Sundays, I would tell my mum goodbye and then take the train to Leipzig, where my training facility and vocational school were located.
B: STAMM2A
B: stamm
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: SONNTAG1C
B: sonntag
B: ICH1*
B: AB11
B: ICH2*
B: MAMA11
B: mama
B: $PROD*
B: tschüss
B: ICH2*
B: FORT1
B: LEIPZIG1*||$NUM-EINER1A:1d*
B: leipzig
B: $INDEX1
B: BILDUNG1*
B: aus{bildung}
B: berufsschule
B: BERUF4*
B: SCHULE1B*
B: We always met up at Leipzig main station and got together there.
B: KOMMEN1*
B: hauptbahnhof
B: $WORTTEIL-HAUPT4
B: BAHNHOF1*
B: LEIPZIG1*
B: leipzig
B: STAMM4B*
B: stamm
B: ABLAUF1^*
B: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV1^*
B: They were from Berlin and from Dresden, and I came from Erfurt.
B: VON3*
B: von
B: DRESDEN1*||$NUM-EINER1A:1d*
B: dresden
B: ||$PROD*
B: BERLIN1B*
B: berlin
B: $PROD*
B: ||ERFURT1
B: erfurt
B: GEHÖREN1^*
B: ||$PROD*
B: DRESDEN1*
B: dresden
B: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV2^*
B: ZUSAMMEN1A*
B: MISCHEN2*
B: $INDEX1
B: We spent time together until the evening, it was a great atmosphere and there was a lot of alcohol/
B: BIS1*
B: bis
B: ABEND2
B: abend
B: STIMMUNG3||$NUM-EINER1A:1d*
B: stimmung
B: $LIST1:2of2d
B: ALKOHOL1
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^
B: The reunions were always really happy occasions; we’d talk and drink, there was a great atmosphere.
B: ALLE1B^
B: KLAR1A^*
B: logisch
B: [MG]
B: ||$NUM-EINER1A:1d*
B: ALKOHOL1*
B: ||$NUM-EINER1A:2d*
B: STIMMUNG3*
B: stimmung
B: GUT3*
B: gut
B: wiedersehen
B: WIEDER1B*
B: SEHEN1
B: GEBÄRDEN1A*
B: FERTIG1B
B: ZUSAMMEN1A*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: At night, we’d all go to the home, everyone went to their separate rooms, until the next morning in Leipzig when/
B: ABEND2
B: abend
B: HEIM3
B: heim
B: SCHLAFEN1^
B: DORTHIN-GEHEN1
B: $PROD*
B: FERTIG1B*
B: MORGEN1A
B: morgen
B: ||$NUM-EINER1A^*
B: $GEST-OFF^*||AUFZÄHLEN1C^
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: LEIPZIG1*
B: l{eipzig}
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: You worked as a carpenter, but what jobs did the others do?
B: $GEST-KEINE-AHNUNG1^
A: tischler
A: HOBEL2^*
A: DU1*
A: EINTRETEN1A^
A: ANDERS2*
A: andere
B: Okay, so the first a carpenter, the second a painter, and the third a shoemaker.
A: WAS1B*
A: was
B: $LIST1:1of1d*
B: ach ja
B: TISCHLER-SCHREINER1B*
B: tischler
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
B: $LIST1:2of2d*
B: MALEN2*
B: $LIST1:2of2d
B: MALEN2*
B: maler
B: $LIST1:3of3d*
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: $LIST1:3of3d*
B: SCHUHMACHER1*
B: schuhmacher
B: What was the fourth job? It wasn’t fine mechanics, those people were in Dresden, but what was the fourth job?
B: $LIST1:4of4d*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
A: Maybe people could be trained to become tailors?
B: GUT1^*
B: f{einmechaniker}
A: SCHNEIDER1
A: [MG]
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: feinmechanik
B: GUT1^
B: TECHNIK1^*
B: NEIN2B*
B: DRESDEN1*
B: dresden
B: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
A: Maybe there were tailors?
B: $LIST1:4of4d*
A: [MG]
A: SCHNEIDER1
B: $INDEX1
B: No, the training to become a tailor took place in Halle.
B: SCHNEIDER1*
B: näher
A: $GEST-OFF^
B: halle
B: HALLE-STADT1
B: GEHÖREN1^*
B: HALLE-STADT1
B: halle
B: SCHNEIDER1*
B: näher
B: halle
B: HALLE-STADT1
B: GEHÖREN1^*
B: I think that’s it.
B: $LIST1:5of5*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: GLATT1^
B: FERTIG1B*
A: Only four training options? That really isn’t much, but it’s also interesting. And you couldn’t become a technical drawer either?
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: $NUM-EINER1B:4*
A: vier
A: wenig
A: WENIG4*
B: There were only a few/
A: INTERESSE1A*
A: technisch
A: TECHNIK1
B: $GEST^
B: nur
B: $LIST2^*
A: ZEICHEN3A*
A: NEIN2B
B: No. Dental technicians were trained in Dresden.
B: zahntechniker
B: ZAHN1*
A: $GEST-OFF^
B: TECHNIK1*
A: NEIN2B*
B: DRESDEN1*||$INDEX1
B: dresden
B: ||GEHÖREN1^*
B: zahntechniker
B: ZAHN1*
B: TECHNIK1*
B: Lab technicians were also trained in Dresden.
B: LABOR1*
B: labor
B: DRESDEN1*||$INDEX1
B: dresden
B: GEHÖREN1^*
B: In Leipzig, they firstly trained mechanics, secondly, carpenters, then thirdly, painters, and fourthly, well what was it, right, wood, and that was basically it.
B: $GEST^
B: $LIST1:1of1d
B: LEIPZIG1*
B: leipzig
B: MEISTENS2*
B: [MG]
B: $INDEX1*
B: $LIST1:1of1d*
B: MECHANISMUS2*
B: mecha{nik}
B: $GEST^*
B: $LIST1:2of2d
B: TISCHLER-SCHREINER1B*
B: tischler
B: $LIST1:3of3d*
B: MALEN2*
B: maler
B: $LIST1:4of4d*
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: FERTIG1B*
B: PFLEGE2^*
B: holz
B: GEHÖREN1^*
B: FERTIG1B*
B: $LIST2:1-4of4d
B: FERTIG1B*
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: You couldn’t become a gardener either?
A: GARTEN14B*
A: gä{rtner}
B: IN-ENTHALTEN2
A: NEIN2A*
B: No, you could learn to become a gardener in Güstrow.
B: NEIN2B*
B: GÜSTROW1
B: güstrow
B: ||$INDEX1
B: $GEST^
B: That was it, I guess.
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: FERTIG1B*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: $GEST-KEINE-AHNUNG1^
B: NAME2^*
B: When school was over, we usually went to the disco at night.
B: BIS1
B: bis
B: BILDUNG1*
B: aus{bildung}
B: FERTIG1B*
B: fertig
B: ABEND2
B: abend
B: DISCO1
B: disco
B: We met a different places and drank alcohol.
B: ICH1*
B: $GEST^
B: mal
B: TREFFEN2A
B: treffen
B: $INDEX1
B: ||$INDEX1
B: $INDEX1
B: ALKOHOL1^
B: DREHEN8^
B: Sometimes we’d go dancing in Halle.
B: BIS1^
B: DISCO2*
B: disco
B: WO1A
B: wo
B: halle
B: $INDEX1
B: HALLE-STADT1
B: $INDEX1
B: DREHEN8^*
B: The other deaf people where like me; they were from the east just like me, and they used the same signs. That was great.
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A||$INDEX1
B: gehörlose
B: SOFORT6*
B: wie ich
B: GEBÄRDEN1A*
B: [MG]
B: SOFORT6*
B: wie ich
B: OSTEN1B
B: osten
B: BEREICH1A*
B: SOFORT6*
B: GEBÄRDEN1A*
B: SOFORT6*
B: wie ich
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: [MG]
B: WIMMELN1^*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: GUT3*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: FERTIG1B*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: HANDLUNG3^
B: $GEST-OFF^