Friendship without Borders

Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany

Phil Leask (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

338 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-118-0 (ISBN)

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Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schönebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs. This book draws on that unprecedented resource, complemented by a set of interviews, to paint a rich portrait of “ordinary” life in postwar Germany. It shows how these women—whether reflecting on their experiences as Nazi-era schoolchildren or witnessing reunification—were united by their complex interactions with official power and their commitment to sustaining a shared German identity as they made the most of their everyday lives in both the GDR and the Federal Republic.

Phil Leask is an honorary research associate in the School of European Languages, Culture and Society at University College London. The author of numerous novels and short stories as well as scholarly reviews and articles, he has also contributed to several edited volumes: Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler (ed. Mary Fulbrook and Andrew I. Port, Berghahn 2013); Ruptures in the Everyday: Views of Modern Germany from the Ground (ed. Andrew S. Bergerson and Leonard Schmieding, Berghahn 2017); and Psychodynamics of Writing (ed. Martin Weegmann, Routledge 2018.).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

The Schönebeck Women and Where They Went

Introduction

Chapter 1. From Schoolgirls to Young Women

Chapter 2. Grown Up: The Long 1950s

Chapter 3. No Longer Young:The 1960s

Chapter 4. Turning Fifty: The 1970s

Chapter 5.Toward Retirement: The 1980s

Chapter 6. Reunited? The 1990s and Beyond

Conclusion: The Schönebeck Women and Their Group

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.08.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-80539-118-6 / 1805391186
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-118-0 / 9781805391180
Zustand	Neuware