Volume 22 (2025), Edition 1

Using the example of the Second World War, this paper aims to show that earlier experiences of war in childhood and youth are still experienced as stressful decades later and are accompanied by rather difficult health and psychological sensitivities...

The author reflects on the societal and personal turning points in her nearly 80 years of life, with the most significant being the events of 1961 with the construction of the Berlin Wall and 1989 with its fall. She perceives the current era, marked...

A high elderly (92 years old) author describes in her narrative the emotional response to reunification, the responsible handling of restituted property, the renovation process of a house from the Wilhelminian era, and her family involvement in...

The author describes how he was promoted and supported as a student who was compliant with the political system in the »actually existing socialism« in the former GDR during the 1980s and how he then got into conflict with the force of the system...

Helmut Kohl’s statement about the »flourishing landscapes« after reunification has attracted a lot of criticism and even ridicule. The author describes how reunification after 45 years of divergent development was a Herculean task for which...

35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, memories of the time of upheaval are awakened, accompanied by initial euphoria, later scepticism and also uncertainty. In each case, this is combined with the necessary adaptation, in some cases more, in...

Based on a personal example, insecurities in one’s own selfand identity-regulation as well as national and international radicalizations are shown using concrete current references. The compensation of identity insecurities leads individually and...

Based on several courses of treatment the author describes internal and external conflicts of elder citizens of the former GDR in Western Germany. Those patients, aged between 60 and 85 years, have moved to Western Germany at different times....