Children’s Reciprocal Perceptions of Friendship Quality in the Sociocultural Contexts of East and West Berlin

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd D. Little ◽  
Mara Brendgen ◽  
Brigitte Wanner ◽  
Lothar Krappmann
Keyword(s):  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Sociocultural Influences ◽  
Interpersonal Perceptions ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
West Berlin ◽  
East And West ◽  
Sociocultural Contexts

Testing 551 East and 210 West Berlin children (grades 2-5), we sought to: (1) gain a broader understanding of the reciprocal nature of children’s friendships, especially their perceptions of friendship quality; and (2) examine sociocultural influences on such perceptions. We expected friends’ perceptions to form two distinct types of perceptions: (i) objectively perceived and, thus, shared interpersonal perceptions; and (ii) subjectively interpreted and, thus, nonshared intrapersonal perceptions. Mean and covariances structures analyses revealed that: (a) our distinction was well supported and generalisable across both contexts; and (b) East Berlin children reported more perceived friendship conflict, fewer mutual visits and sleep-overs, and less fun in their play activities than did their West Berlin age-mates. These differences are consistent with known characteristics of these two distinct sociocultural contexts.

The Establishment of the Jüdische Gemeinde von Groß-Berlin

2021 ◽  
pp. 321-340
Author(s):  
Tina Frühauf
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
Special Events ◽  
West Berlin ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
East And West

In the aftermath of the purges of 1952/1953, the Jewish community in Berlin was divided into East and West constituencies. This chapter traces the trajectory of the East Berlin community from this division until 1971. Against all odds and in the midst of turmoil, communal life in East Berlin continued, centered around its only synagogue, which was rededicated in 1953 as Friedenstempel. Rykestraße Synagogue became a cultural hub. It instigated a series of synagogue concerts and opened its doors for the annual commemorations of the November pogroms. Given the dearth of cantors, the community also maintained contacts with West Berlin, which regularly freed its cantors from their duties so that they could assist, especially for funerals at the Weißensee cemetery and for special events. The continual presence of cantors from West Berlin was most significant. It gave way to a mobility of musical practices both in Kultus and concerts.

After the Wall: Pride before the Fall, 1961–89

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Rodden
Keyword(s):  
Early Morning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sunday Morning ◽  
The West ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
West Berlin ◽  
Service Jobs ◽  
Subway Stations ◽  
Identity Cards ◽  
The City

East Berlin. August 13, 1961. As the sun peeks over the horizon on this beautiful Sunday morning, most East Berliners sleep on, but some rise for work; a few thousand of them are Grenzgänger, who cross town—quite legally—to work in the “other” Berlin, mostly as hotel and restaurant employees and in other service jobs made lucrative by the uneven exchange rate. Each day they make the trip to West Berlin—by foot, by bicycle, by S-Bahn and U-Bahn, showing their DDR identity cards and special work permits to the bored Grepos (Grenzpolizei, border police) stationed at the gates. But this morning the Grepos are not bored; today, as the would-be commuters discover as they reach streets and subway stations along the East Berlin border, no Grenzgänger will cross. “Die Grenze ist geschlossen!” people scream to each other in the early-morning stillness. “The border is closed!” No subway cars are running westward; Grepos guard the U-Bahn tunnels to prevent subway commuters from fleeing to the West on foot; Vopos turn back Grenzgänger at every checkpoint. The SED has apparently found a way to secure its future and halt the flight of DDR and skilled labor—by walling them in. WHO HAS THE YOUTH, HAS THE FUTURE! As the Grenzgänger stumble home and the DDR capital—“die Hauptstadt der DDR”—awakens to the nightmare, it is as if a tremendous howl—the anguished wail of cornered, trapped, desperate animals—has gone up throughout East Berlin— as it soon will over the DDR. For almost a decade, East Germany’s 600-mile border has been sealed by barbed wire and 12-foot electrified fencing; just inside the fence is a strip of land about 50 yards wide that is cleared of brush, dotted with mines, and covered by machine guns in high watchtowers. And so, most aspiring refugees make their way to East Berlin, where many of the streets and subway stations along the city border are guarded casually, if at all.

scholarly journals Erratum

1974 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 543-543
Author(s):  
Rita Pankhurst
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
West Berlin

I am indebted to Professor Dr. Ernst Hammerschmidt of Hamburg University for pointing out that the manuscripts Dillmann No. 19 and No. 42 mentioned on p. 30 and listed on p. 40 of my article on ‘The library of Emperor Tewodros II at Mäqdäla (Magdala)’, BSOAS, xxxvi, 1, 1973, are in the Staatsbibliothek der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz in West Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, and not, as stated in the article, in the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic.

A German Detente

Worldview ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 11-12
Author(s):  
Thomas Kielinger
Keyword(s):  
West Germany ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
East And West ◽  
East West

Amidst the sound and the fury that attended last year's missile controversy came an astonishing development in relations between the two Germanies, one which seemed to go against the prevailing winds of East-West tensions. While Moscow and its stalwart ally East Berlin were threatening hellfire if Bonn went ahead with NATO plans to station Pershing II missiles, exchanges on all levels between East and West Germany were never more relaxed. And (touch wood) 1984 continues on the same promising note on which 1983 left off.

Radio Propaganda during the Ocupation, 1945–1949

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Staff Turnover ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
West Berlin ◽  
East And West ◽  
Formative Years

This chapter focuses on the founding of RIAS and how stations in East and West Berlin reported on the Berlin Blockade and Airlift. It shows how RIAS's formative years, from 1946 to 1949, were turbulent ones. Constant tensions existed both within and without the station with regard to what its purpose and responsibility as a radio broadcaster actually were. Personnel problems led to internal discord, rivalries, and frequent staff turnover. The rapidly deteriorating political situation in Berlin, as Allied cooperation collapsed and German political parties quickly aligned themselves with the rival superpowers, both fed and compounded these pressures. From the very beginning the inherent contradictions between objective news and propaganda came to shape the type of station RIAS became and the type of news and programming it broadcasted.

scholarly journals Turán, Tamás and Carsten Wilke, eds. 2016. Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary – the "Science of Judaism" Between East and West. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 414 pages.

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 196-201
Author(s):  
David Mandler
Keyword(s):  
West Berlin ◽  
East And West

Turán, Tamás and Carsten Wilke, eds. 2016. Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary – the "Science of Judaism" Between East and West. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 414 pages.

The Berlin State Library/Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: A Library in Transition

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Landwehrmeyer
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
West Berlin ◽  
Lending Library ◽  
Post War ◽  
State Library ◽  
Lengthy Process

The division of Germany after the war led to the former Preussischer Staatsbibliothek (PSB) being split between the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek (DSB) in East Berlin and the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz (SBPK) in West Berlin. Following the country's unification, the collections are being reunified in one institution, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, which will be the biggest library in Germany. Both buildings will continue to be used, since neither is large enough to hold the entire collection, both are architecturally significant, and a new building is out of the question. Reintegrating the post-war collections is much less of a problem than the treatment of post-war acquisitions of the two libraries. Large numbers of books (many of them lacking in other major Germany libraries) are duplicated, and it is difficult to achieve a sensible allocation of materials between the buildings. It has been decided to use the older building (DSB) for holdings up to 1955, for consultation only, while the other building (SBPK), which dates from 1978, will house material from 1956 and serve as a lending library. The catalogue sittuation is equally complex. The DSB had a complete record of the pre-war collection of printed books, but the major part of the collection was either in West Berlin or lost; on the other hand, in the west, where 1.7m. volumes of PSB's holdings were concentrated, the SBPK had to start without any catalogue at all. The aim is now to carry out a complete retrospective conversion of all the varied existing catalogues within the next seven years. To add to these complications, the entire older building is being restored to acceptable standards and the former central reading room is being reconstructed; during the lengthy process a storage building is having to be rented. The greatest challenge of all, however, is the integration of staff.

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