Friendship without Borders

Informationen zum Autor Phil Leask is an honorary research fellow 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.). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Drawing on a set of interviews and a thousand letters written over fifty years, Friendship, Power, and Everyday Life considers how a group of women, self-defined as non-political, experienced, accepted, rejected, or countered the exercise of power across twentieth-century regimes in Germany. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

Autorentext

Phil Leask is an honorary research fellow 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.).

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
Drawing on a set of interviews and a thousand letters written over fifty years, Friendship, Power, and Everyday Life considers how a group of women, self-defined as non-political, experienced, accepted, rejected, or countered the exercise of power across twentieth-century regimes in Germany.

Inhalt

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