NAME IT FIRST

Workbook

For East German Families

Wende, Wandel, und die Geschichte Zwischen den Generationen

The Wall came down. The conversation between generations did not always follow.

This is for:

For the East German family where the GDR, the Wende, and what came after shaped how generations speak — and where the conversation has not happened yet.

You'll produce:your The East German Family Document

The Name It First Experience

Your family carries the GDR, the Wende, and everything that came after. This workbook opens the conversation between the generation that lived it and the generation that inherited the silence. You will build The East German Family Document — a signed identity document naming what the experience means across generations.

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Sample questions

  1. What does East German identity mean in your household — the history of the GDR, the Wende, and what your family lived through?
  2. What from East German life does your family carry that the reunified Germany doesn't fully see or value?
  3. What do you want the next generation to understand about what it meant to grow up in the East — not the Stasi version, but the full one?

Research basis

Berry on acculturation / Bowen on intergenerational family systems / Yehuda on intergenerational transmission / scholarship on East German identity after reunification

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