More than Beer and Lederhosen: Living in Germany in Memorable Times

Dr. Finney’s sojourns in West Germany have coincided with historic moments in the country’s history. Her job as a nurses’ aide in 1970 fell in the wake of the Economic Miracle and the contracting of Gastarbeiter*innen. She arrived in Tübingen to take up a dissertation fellowship in October 1977, days before members of the far-left militant Baader-Meinhof Group were found dead in their cells at Stammheim Prison. Holding a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Berlin, 1989-1990, coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and its aftermath.