Publications attached to gas-filled balloons, released from West Germany and carried across the inner-German border.

Without context, the balloons could be many things.
A game, an installation, a meteorological device.

The book assembles photographs from the Stasi archives with protocol-like texts documenting the flights and their landings.
What appears is an image of everyday life in the GDR – fragmented, provisional, and reconstructed.


A broader historical context of the inner-German border and its mechanisms.

• 2025
• 40 pages
• 53 images
• 22 × 32 cm
• Hardcover (thread-bound)
• Language: English
• ISBN 978-3956955772
• Spector Books