Hollywood Detective Agency, Report 1987–1990:

I was hired to have a look “over there.” There’s supposed to be a group in East Berlin called “Lesbians in the Church.” Once I had arrived on the other side, lesbian and church groups provided me with underground journals, of course “for internal church use only.” That’s how I came upon the only lesbian publication in the GDR, frau anders, in which the readers also reported on their lives as mothers. Then political events came fast and furious, but frau anders continued publication. On June 20, 1989, the special law against homosexuals Section 151 was removed from the GDR penal code and the wall fell on November 9 that year.

Very useful for the investigations in this case: Christiane Mlynski, one of the editors of frau anders reports, gives us deep insights.

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Perhaps it would be interesting if in this way a conversation could emerge about how other lesbians live with their children.

„Here is an appeal we wrote on behalf of the future editorial team.“

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„The women’s meeting was in Jena in May 89 and was organised jointly by the Jena women’s group, the straight women and our lesbian group.“

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„Living openly as a lesbian was difficult.“

„Here’s a copied letter. I wrote it, it’s my handwriting, I found it in the Stasi file.“

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Epilogue

An article by Antje Vollmer to her sisters in the former GDR appeared in EMMA in June 1991: „You from the East“.

Christiane Mlynski wrote a reply „You, Antje Vollmer, from the West!“, excerpts of which were published in EMMA 8/91.