During the early years after the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961, a number of smuggling operations from behind the Wall were executed, and the reports of them spread through the Western media. In the 1960s and early 1970s, the popular Swedish men’s magazines Lektyr and Fib Aktuellt published several exclusive photo reportages about such operations, providing Swedish readers with information about the East Germans’ desire to escape their country, and the West Germans’ willingness to assist. This article discusses the Swedish escape reports as examples of border crossing through their form as well as their content. It is analysed, how the escape reports published in Sweden both represented and generated border-crossing activity. The smuggling stories also illustrate the entangled character of popular print media: the travels of texts and pictures beyond national, cultural and lingual borders as well as travels between apposite publications. The material of the article consists of a total of ten reportages published in Lektyr and Fib Aktuellt between 1965–1966 and 1973.

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外交官行动和其他走私故事

1961年柏林墙竖立后的最初几年里，在墙后进行了多次走私活动，有关这些活动的报道通过西方媒体传播开来。在 1960 年代和 1970 年代初期，流行的瑞典男性杂志 Lektyr 和 Fib Aktuellt 发表了几篇关于此类行动的独家图片报道，向瑞典读者提供有关东德人逃离祖国的愿望以及西德人愿意提供帮助的信息。本文通过形式和内容讨论瑞典逃亡报告作为越境的例子。分析了瑞典发布的逃亡报告如何代表和产生过境活动。走私的故事也说明了流行印刷媒体的纠缠不清的性格：文本和图片跨越国家、文化和语言边界的传播以及在相关出版物之间的传播。文章的材料包括 1965-1966 和 1973 年间在 Lektyr 和 Fib Aktuellt 上发表的总共十篇报告文学。