she would "maintain the strictest silence [about] her collaboration with the Ministry for State Security". Also unexpected for someone who had been convicted and imprisoned for trying to flee the country, is a card index entry in the Stasi records indicating that with effect from May 1988 Uta Felgner's status as an active Stasi collaborator had been reinstated. More surprises for Hans Schulze Whatever he may have learned during his time as a prisoner in East Germany, Hans Schulze, the West German lover implicated in Felgner's failed attempt to flee the country, had more surprises in store after he was made aware of the press revelations from the Stasi records. It was only then that he discovered that the woman he had known had been an Informal collaborator working for the Stasi. That was not all. Visiting the Stasi Records Agency he came across and watched an old Stasi training film entitled "Wer ist wer?" ("Who's who?"). He himself appeared several times in the film, which featured the career progression of a female Stasi "decoy" identified in the film as IM Eva. Eva's biographical base data bore an uncanny resemblance to that of Uta Felgner. Schulze stated: "The woman dealt with at several points in the film is the woman I knew, Uta." The film depicted the agent as "exceptionally tactile and self assured" ("äußerst kontaktfreudig und selbstsicher auftretend"), which made it easy for her to establish "contact and intimacy ... with well positioned men", especially from the west. Other details which Schulze recognised as references to the woman he had known included the description of her as "always well turned out and dressed in the latest style, giving an attractive appearance which hit the mark" ("Stets gepflegt und sehr modern gekleidet, verfehlte ihr attraktives Äußeres dabei seine Wirkung nicht."). After the wall came down When the Berlin Wall was breached by protestors in November 1989 it quickly became apparent that the fraternal Soviet troops hosted by East Germany had not received instructions from Moscow to engage in violent suppression of any uprising, as they had done back in 1953. That opened the way for a series of changes which led to an end for one-party dictatorship and then, formally in October 1990, German reunification. The state for which Felgner and her Stasi handlers had worked no longer existed. Armed with an (apparently embellished) background as a qualified nurse with