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Katrin Sass speaks openly about the Stasi drama surrounding her best friend

Katrin Sass speaks openly about the Stasi drama surrounding her best friend

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As a popular acting star, Katrin Sass was also under surveillance in the GDR. When she looked at her Stasi file after the fall of the Berlin Wall, she made a shocking discovery.

Leipzig – With films such as “Good Bye, Lenin” or the series “Weissensee”, actress Katrin Sass (67) has not only celebrated her great successes, but has also worked through a piece of GDR history. The TV star was once spied on by the Stasi herself. The sad thing: among others, by her then best friend.

Stasi drama surrounding Katrin Sass: Her former best friend had spied on her

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Katrin Sass had the opportunity to look into her Stasi file, as she revealed in the MDR programme “Riverboat”. told. She was literally speechless. “There were pages and pages of my entire life,” the 67-year-old remembers. To her horror, she was also spied on by “my best friend at the time.” The clue was the Stasi name “IM Kasimir.” Kasimir was the name of her best friend Sabine's cat.

When she later found out that Sabine “didn't want to die with this guilt,” Sass picked up the phone and contacted her. “I'm not calling so that you can die in peace,” Katrin explained on the phone. “I'm calling to learn forgiveness.” During the phone call, according to Sass, “there was just screaming, crying, screaming, crying,” and the actress realized that after more than 33 years, she still can't make up with Sabine because the hurt is so deep.

Using beer as an accelerant: Actress Katrin Sass burned her Stasi file

In the spring, they met again at the funeral of actor Peter Sodann (†87), who died in April and whose secretary Sabine had been. Katrin wanted to make another attempt to clear things up. But after the memorial service, Sabine disappeared again. A few weeks ago, Katrin Sass decided to burn the Stasi file. The TV star even used beer as an accelerant. A final reconciliation with Sabine is still pending.

On the left we see actress Katrin Sass in side profile; on the right we see Katrin Sass at “Riverboat”
Katrin Sass speaks openly about her Stasi file. The actress was once spied on by her former best friend. © IMAGO / Future Images & Screenshot: “Riverboat” / MDR

The Stasi had once tried to lure Katrin Sass, as she said in an interview in 2015 weser-kurier.de One day, a man in an Adidas tracksuit stood at her door and thanked her on behalf of a football club for an evening of singing. “I then invited him in and he began to question me,” Sass recalled. “It quickly became too much for me, so I complimented him on it.” When he ignored her on the street a few days later, she realized: “The Stasi's war.”

You appear in front of the camera as a detective for “Polizeiruf 110” and as a public prosecutor for the “Usedom-Krimis”. In the spring, however, actress Katrin Sass herself became the target of police investigations. Sources used: MDR-TV (Riverboat”, broadcast on August 30, 2024), weser-kurier.de

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