Memorial Bautzner Street Dresden

About this audio guide

This guide to the Gedenkstätte Bautzner Straße in Dresden reads a prison as a building: walls, cells, floors and the sums they encode. It starts from a nineteenth-century paper and cardboard factory, goes down into the Soviet secret service cellar known as the Fuchsbau, and up into the cell block East Germany's Stasi built for itself in the nineteen fifties. Listen from the courtyard, then again as you pass the vehicle lock.