Samuel Meffire was the face of an ad campaign to show a different side to the former GDR but later served time for armed robbery
n the dying days of the German Democratic Republic, a group of peace activists gather in a church in Dresden to discuss the more bottom-up, less authoritarian country they would like to see emerge out of the crumbling socialist state.
The series – Disney’s first original series produced in Germany – does not aspire to challenge storytelling conventions, but it manages in unexpected ways to cut across the often told story of the “peaceful revolution” of 1989 – as well as contemporary debates about law enforcement’s treatment of black people.
Now living in Bonn, in the western Ruhr valley, he said he would not take his two children on a holiday to the eastern state where he grew up. “The neo-something is now part of the normal cityscape during the day, too,” he writes. “The vampires are bound to the night no longer. They have acquitted themselves from this spell. And the well-behaved, demoralised citizens applauded them.”
In 1995, Meffire was involved in a string of armed robberies and went on the run in France and what was then Zaire – now the Democratic Republic of the Congo – where he was caught up in the first Congo war and eventually extradited to Germany. After serving seven years in prison, he now works as a social worker, security contractor and author.
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