Group spirit among women in a divided country. Book review of Phil Leask, Friendship without Borders: Women’s Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany. Berghahn Books, 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 053331642110410
Author(s):  
Maria Puschbeck-Raetzell
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
East And West ◽  
Women's Stories

scholarly journals Reinventing Consumption Traditions through the Process of Unification of a Country: Understanding “Good Bye Lenin!”

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-153
Author(s):  
Ece Ceren Engür
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Times

This paper focuses on the change of consumption traditions in terms of re-unification of a country. The discussion bases on the movie, “Good Bye Lenin!”(2003) and chases the transformations on consumption trends in order to understand how the re-unification of East and West Germany influences the practices of everyday life after a four decade long segregation. The movie displays the 1990’s Germany during the times when the Berlin Wall falls and frames a family portrait which is dominated by an idealist and traditional mother character in the last days of her life.

scholarly journals Conservative Modernity

2020 ◽  
pp. 150-182
Author(s):  
Katrin Schreiter
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
German Society ◽  
West Germany ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
Living Space ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Right

This chapter focuses on the role of functionalism on living space in East and West Germany. Implementation of modernization in everyday life happened gradually in the postwar German countries and there were a host of reasons for this. Thee analysis in this chapter suggests that functionalist discourse diffused German society, yet not with the consistency that the disciples of modernism would have liked. It was a conservative modernity that showed widespread awareness of the right materials, the wrong embellishments, and the need for the emotional comfort of traditions and social relations. The population accepted the practicality of functionalism's clear lines and rectangular shapes for small apartments. However, it did not accept the emotional emptiness of the functionalist extreme.

Trends in the Prevalence of Atopic Eczema in East and West Germany

1998 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-376
Author(s):  
Schäfer ◽  
Krämer ◽  
Vieluf ◽  
Behrendt ◽  
Ring
Keyword(s):  
Atopic Eczema ◽  
West Germany ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
East And West

A Reflection on Crucial Periods in 50 Years of Social Psychology (in Germany)

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Katja Corcoran ◽  
Michael Häfner ◽  
Mathias Kauff ◽  
Stefan Stürmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Early Development ◽  
West Germany ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West

Abstract. In this article, we reflect on 50 years of the journal Social Psychology. We interviewed colleagues who have witnessed the history of the journal. Based on these interviews, we identified three crucial periods in Social Psychology’s history, that are (a) the early development and further professionalization of the journal, (b) the reunification of East and West Germany, and (c) the internationalization of the journal and its transformation from the Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie to Social Psychology. We end our reflection with a discussion of changes that occurred during these periods and their implication for the future of our field.

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