Abstract
In: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2015. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, pp. 151–160.
First published in 2007, Edith Anderson’s memories Love in Exile concerned her life in the Soviet Occupation Zone and, then, in the GDR; they became a niche market favourite. Edith Anderson was a member of the Communist Party USA. She held strong views, those of a confident, feminist-oriented young woman who wanted to work and who expected the party to take up the interests of working women just as much as its attention to issues of the black population ad their demanded to participate in the world of work and social life in the United States. Anderson was disappointed, as she details in Love in Exile and in her novel Yellow Light, which was written and published in the GDR (1956), about her experiences as a woman conductor at the American railroad. Of Jewish heritage, Anderson came to Germany in 1947 with her husband, the German Communists Max Schroeder. She had a similarly critical views of the German population during the post-war period; nevertheless, she remained connected to the GDR – if with distance. Edith Anderson died in 1999 in East Berlin.
Über die Autorin
Birgit Schmidt, geb. 1960 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, 1980 bis 1987 Studium der Literaturgeschichte, Deutschen Philologie sowie der Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte in Freiburg/Breisgau. 2002 Promotion im Fach Literaturgeschichte, Lehrerin in der Erwachsenenbildung. Journalistische Tätigkeit, Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Nationalsozialismus und Widerstand, kommunistische Literatur, DDR-Literatur, Antisemitismus der Linken, Frauengeschichte. Lebt in Berlin.