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Friendship without Borders: Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
New York, NY: Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
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.