Empty years

Stasi prison January 27, 1986

Played chess all day yesterday.

As long as I had some light.

Getting used to the cold.

Most importantly: I’m getting used to the wooden board I sleep on.

Must have slept through half the night after a rough hour or two.

Started playing self invented theater pieces and wrote a poem.

Jens Thieme poem "leerjahre" from his book: 'Kopfgeburt'.

Stomach cramps from the hunger.

Or is there a bug coming on?

No guards showing up.

Haven’t seen daylight in a week.

Haven’t smelled fresh air either.

But I kept my fighting spirit up.

Workout after breakfast.

Theater and chess.

Workout at night.

It’s the new routine.

In a locked-away life.

Forgotten by the world.

*Testimony -> Start. This blog entry is part of a linear narrated testimony of the contemporary witness Jens Thieme who was imprisoned 1985-1986 as a political prisoner in various GDR prisons by the GDR Ministry of State Security. Stasi prison, Stasi jail, Stasi detention.