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title	:	The Wall in My Backyard : East German Women in Transition
author	:	Dodds, Dinah Jane
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870239325
print isbn13	:	9780870239328
ebook isbn13	:	9780585227023
language	:	English
subject	Women--Germany (East)--Social conditions, Women--Germany (East)--Interviews, Germany (East)--Social conditions.
publication date	:	1994
lcc	:	HQ1630.5.W35 1994eb
ddc	:	305.42/09431
subject	:	Women--Germany (East)--Social conditions, Women--Germany (East)--Interviews, Germany (East)--Social conditions.

Page iii The Wall in My Backyard East German Women in Transition Edited by Dinah Dodds and Pam Allen-Thompson Interviews and Translation by Dinah Dodds University of Massachusetts Press Amherst

Page iv Copyright 1994 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 94-18664 ISBN 0-87023-932-5 (cloth); 933-3 (pbk.) Designed by Jack Harrison Set in Adobe Minion by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The wall in my backyard: East German women in transition edited by Dinah Dodds and Pam Allen-Thompson; interviews and translation by Dinah Dodds. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87023-932-5 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-87023-933-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. WomenGermany (East)Social conditions. 2. WomenGermany (East)Interviews. 3. Germany (East)Social conditions. I. Dodds, Dinah Jane, 1943. II. Allen-Thompson, Pam, 1954 HQ1630.5.W35 1994 305.42'09431dc20 94-18664 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. The interview with Helga Schtz appeared as "Die Mauer stand bei mir im Garten," in Women in German Yearbook 7: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture, ed. Jeanette Clausen and Sara Friedrichsmeyer. Copyright 1991 by the University of Nebraska Press. Used by permission of the publisher.

Page v "I lived for eighteen years with the Wall in my backyard" HELGA SCHTZ

Page vii Contents AcknowledgmentsixIntroduction1InterviewsHanna Behrend, Sixty-Eight, Retired University Professor22Petra P., Thirty-Eight, Sauna Attendant30Eva Kunz, Forty-Two, Commissioner for Equal Opportunity, Magistrat38Katharina Stillisch, Forty-Eight, Press Secretary for Eva Kunz44Karin Tittmann, Thirty-Nine, Physical Therapist50Eva Stahl, Forty-Three, City Administrator58Gerda Maron, Forty-Eight, Film Editor for East German Television (DFF)65Ursula Korth, Forty-Seven, Office Employee, East German Television (DFF)75Marianne S., Twenty, Language Student80Gitta Nickel, Fifty-Four, Filmmaker90Eva P., Fifty-Three, Housekeeper97

Page viii Helga Schtz, Fifty-Five, Writer and Filmmaker103Heike Prochazka, Twenty-Nine, Water-Safety Instructor112Maria Curter, Forty-Five, Biologist121Tina F., Fifty, Urban Planner129Ursula Sydow, Forty-Seven, Former Editor for Aufbau Publishing136Haiderun Lindner, Forty-Eight, Physician and Mental Health Therapist143Jutta Braband, Forty-One, Representative to the Bundestag153Chronology and Glossary167Selected Bibliography175

Page ix Acknowledgments Deepest gratitude goes to the twenty-six East Berlin women who were interviewed for this book, including the eight whose interviews could not be included here. They generously shared their time and their stories. This book was possible only because they had the courage to speak candidly about their personal lives. A number of other people deserve special thanks for their contribution to this volume. Kathleen Bogan accompanied me to Berlin during the fall of 1990 on a Ful-bright Faculty Research Grant. A gifted writer and editor, she spent many hours reading the manuscript and making suggestions about organization and clarity. I am grateful to Portland author Floyd Skloot for the initial encouragement to publish the interviews. My colleague Angela Jung, director of the Lewis and Clark College study-abroad program in Munich, provided the initial interview contacts. Ginga Eichler, who was employed at the Agency for Foreigners in the East Berlin Magistrat, introduced me to others while I worked from her East Berlin city-center apartment. Actress Vera Oelschlegel offered her home on Mggel Lake in East Berlin as a base for the final editing. I am particularly grateful to Pam Allen-Thompson, German Studies scholar and Research Professor for Women's Studies at the University of Toledo, for giving this book the benefit of her skill as a writer and her expertise on the history and culture of the German Democratic Republic. Her knowledge provided valuable context for the introduction which she drafted, as well as for the bibliography which she prepared. In the countless hours of editing together, she and I discovered the satisfaction of collaborative work, talking through our differing opinions until we found agreement. Financial support for this project came from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, which granted me a sabbatical leave to Berlin during the fall and winter of 19901991 and a travel grant to return in the summer of 1992. Research grants were provided to Pam Allen-Thompson by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and by the Ohio State University Center for Women's Studies, which administered the Elizabeth Gee Grant for Research on Women. DINAH DODDS

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