Former study director Willi Stöhr (72) presented an insight into the documents for the first time on Wednesday. “Under observation – academy work in the eyes of the Stasi” in the academy’s music hall on Wednesday evening.

Stör applied for access to Stasi files in 2019, initially into his own and in 2022 into those of the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing. What he found there on more than 400 pages offers a very special insight into German-German history and into the fear that the GDR had of the church.