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.
Berlin and I: Vom Mauerblümchen zur Weltstadtpflanze | From Wallflower to Metropolitan Plant
“Manchmal bleibt eine/r am selben Ort sitzen, und die ganze Welt um eine/n herum verändert sich. Bleibe ich unberührt oder ändere ich mich mit?”
“Sometimes one remains immobile in a place and sees the world around one changing. Do I remain unchanged or do I change, too? How does that happen? Do I take an active part in this change?”
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.