Pioneers

I met Anne in the summer at Katzenhain state benefit office in East Berlin and

interviewed her later in a park nearby. She was at 44 years of age the oldest mother.

While her six-year-old son rode around on his bicycle we talked on a bench. This

interview was - at two and a half hours – not only one of the longest interviews

but also one of the most intriguing because of her perception of state dependency,

relative deprivation and mothering. She fitted all nine characteristics of a pioneer.