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Do the different ideological legacies of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) result in persisting differences in women's housework in the unified Germany? In this paper, I examine the housework of employed German women, singles and as well as women with partners, in the decade after unification using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). This comparison allows me to assess the role of regional differences in shaping women's housework, while further distinguishing between full-time and part-time workers. The study shows that women with partners do more housework than single women do, regardless of region of residence. Among singles, there are no East- West differences in either the level of housework or the mechanisms that sha...
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...6315/73, X. v. Federal Republic of Germany, September 30, 1974, D.R. 1, p. 73; App... is of paramount importance in a democratic society. On the other side is the concept of retri...
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... the boredom of life in the `small town in Germany,' known affectionately as Bundesdorf or Langweilig... of the founding of the German Democratic Republic (GDR): the speech in which he referred to...
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... done that also when the GDR [German Democratic Republic] was still there, we got home from work, ...
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The unified city now replaces broken west traffic men with their cuddly eastern cousin, said an official of a Berlin design firm that copyrighted the symbol. The Ampelmann's form and image is used on lamps, cookie cutter molds, bookends, and every imaginable object sold in the firm's stores around Berlin.
At the other end, Museum Island's image is defined by the Altes (old) Museum, a neo-classical gem with a facade 18 columns wide. Built in 1830 to display the king's art collection, it now houses Berlin's Egyptology collection, starring the famous bust of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti.
Despite the panic-inducing list of things to see -- don't forget shows and museums -- Berlin has quiet retreats worth a detour. One is the Dorotheen cemetery with luminaries such as philosopher George Hege...
...The former German Democratic Republic may have had a dour image, but...
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... controversial memorials initiated after German unification. An interpretive framework of building..." of urban culture imagines a democratic form of inclusion in the present. What emerges fro... as the "Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Tyranny." Th...
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This paper challenges the view that current intergenerational relations in adulthood are either marked by permanent unsolvable conflict or by strict autonomy. Based on a theoretical model, the paper offers an overview on current relations between adult children and parents. The following questions will be addressed: 1. To what extent are adult children and parents who do not live in the same household any more, still connected via personal help and monetary transfers? Do they see and call each other quite regularly? Do they feel closely connected to each other? 2. To what extent are current relations between adult children and parents characterized by intergenerational conflict? 3. What are the most important determinants and consequences of ? Ho...
...The cover of an issue of the German magazine "Spiegel-Special" on generations is a goo... generations among adults in the Federal Republic of Germany, on the whole. Firstly, the paper will ... relations in the German Democratic Republic might even protect East German families f...
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... confidence in the durability of the `democratic peace.' . For the optimists, then, Germany's stren... early recognition to the breakaway republics of Slovenia and Croatia. But most of the anxiety a...
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... the dramatic re-organization of Berlin as Germany's newly re-united capital city (Grenzer), all poin... debates in light of a functional democratic polity that both participates in the debate and us... each ruling party (William III, Weimar Republic, Nazi, GDR, and now the new ly reunified Germany) ...