Friendship without Borders : : Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany / / Phil Leask.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Leask, Phil,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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 --; Chapter 3. No Longer Young --; Chapter 4. Turning Fifty --; Chapter 5. Toward Retirement --; Chapter 6. Reunited? --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789206562; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789206562?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Phil Leask.

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.