Divided: A Memoir
Without ever losing sight of the larger political and cultural context, Divided dramatizes the intimate, funny, wrenching, and often visceral process of a girl becoming a woman, a woman becoming herself, and ultimately finding her home in her body.”
Christine Schoefer wrote her dissertation at UC Berkeley on politics and literature in East Germany. After a period of academic teaching and research, she became a freelance writer. She still lives in two places: Berkeley and Rodenaes, a village in the northwest corner of Germany.
Oral History with Leticia Andreas-Wolf
Sunday, January 15, 2012
“My birthplace is Dresden, Germany, year 1965. Despite growing up for my first 10 years in the old East behind the Iron Curtain, my childhood was rather happy and carefree. A dramatic event in 1974 changed the life of my parents and me forever. In 1975, we were forced to leave East Germany for West Germany, and settled in Braunschweig, and later in Wunstorf, near Hannover.