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In this lecture, I will talk about how

to get rid of the negative energy in

the body.

The negative energy in the body is the

negative energy of the mind.

The negative energy in the mind is the

negative energy of the body.

The negative energy in the body is the

negative energy of the mind.

I like Magdeburg, yes.

I like it.

I became a Magdeburgerin.

The best thing was that we stole the

cows.

That we had a warm living room.

And with every room, we became more proud.

And nevertheless, we did not forget what it

means to be comfortable.

To be together in the youth.

And when it went to Stiller's, on Sunday

evening, after six hours of work, construction in

the afternoon, and Stein went there, until the

next morning, five men were dancing, one bottle

of Alkohol.

And that was beautiful.

You always have to approach people.

That is still my principle today.

And with them.

Together.

Tackle some things.

Because there is a lot that was created

there.

And with a lot of strength.

And a lot of, how should I say,

well, with a lot of, this is a

bit exaggerated, pathos.

I mean, we liked to do that.

Why did we like to do that?

Because we saw that something would come out

of it.

That's why we liked to do it.

Because we saw that something would come out

of it.

I spent my childhood in Bukau.

Magdeburg, Bukau.

I was born in Oschersleben.

I was not born here in Magdeburg.

My father was unemployed, and he got a

job here in Magdeburg in 1934.

And then we moved to Magdeburg.

I still went to school there in Oschersleben,

but then here in Magdeburg afterwards.

And then I grew up in Bukau.

My father worked at Bukau Wolf.

And there was Bukau.

I spent my whole childhood in Bukau.

And that was very nice.

As a child, you didn't notice all of

this.

It was a beautiful childhood.

It was a beautiful childhood.

Without further ado.

We had a little calf.

The children had to read poems, stuff potatoes.

We had a little calf.

The father had mowed ditches.

You had to loosen it up, so that

it would be dry.

So that there was a lot of food.

But it was fun, among other things.

We weren't always ready, but you had to.

It's not like today.

I don't like it, I don't feel like

it.

It didn't exist.

No, I was in the swimming club.

We were always a clique.

When the holidays were over, in the summer,

we would meet up at 8 a.m.

Bernhard would bring his bike.

If he didn't have one, he would take

it to the luggage rack.

Or the boys would take it to the

pole.

We would go to our swimming club, called

Neptune.

It was on the Bukau Elbe side.

And the club was right across from the

Rote Hornspitze, in front of the free water,

in front of the beach.

I had a girlfriend.

She had beautiful toys.

She had a dollhouse.

I was with her a lot.

And I had two siblings.

And then, as I said, there was always

an alarm.

In the evening, we would go to bed

in the basement.

My parents had built a double-decker bed.

I slept in a big bathtub, the zinc

bathtub, as they used to call it, where

we would bathe on the weekends.

That was the bed for me.

And in the morning, I have to say,

on the way to Robert-Koch-Straße, we

collected grenade splinters.

Because in Hillersleben and in Alt-Olfenstedt there

were the FlaKs.

And they were shooting.

For us, it was always an event when

we could collect grenade splinters in the morning

and exchanged them.

Those were childhood memories.

And in Robert-Koch-Straße I have to

say, now the houses are being renovated.

Magnificent.

They were empty during the war, but they

were playgrounds for us.

And when it rained in the summer, it

wasn't cold right away.

Then we bathed in these houses down in

the basement because the water was in there.

So I would say childhood memories that you

don't forget.

That was very embarrassing.

When the evening came, there was already a

bit of fear.

Now it could start again with the planes.

Then the siren went off.

Then everything was taken.

The trunk was finished with documents.

And then down in the basement.

And then the first time I have to

say, it was still beautiful.

There was laughter down there.

There wasn't much here yet.

We heard the rumbling when they flew over

us.

The men stood outside and put on their

earplugs.

And then we heard the rumbling the first

time.

One time it was, finally, as I liked

it, the army was coming.

We could roll away the trees and take

away the barriers.

Finally, we could sleep in peace.

That's how it started.

And first of all, waiting for the man

or for him to return.

And we have to do something for our

children.

The power behind it, that new life begins.

The rubble didn't just have to be removed

from the street.

That's how I see the work of the

women's rubble.

It was also about changing the lives of

the children.

And that's how it went.

I had to take my mother.

Just like that.

And even if it was these low-living

things, you were filled with it.

I have to say now, fresh air, the

sun, the people together.

They could speak.

In the basement, everyone was afraid every evening.

But this freedom, now it's going upwards.

And behind it is the power, I want

to make it.

We didn't know how it would go on.

In May the war was over.

And then we were at home.

What will happen now?

Until the message came.

We have to report to the employment office.

And the employment office is back today.

That was our employment office back then.

And then we reported.

Then it was either into agriculture or Magdeburg

in Trümmern.

As a Magdeburg child, of course, we decided

for Magdeburg.

Agriculture wasn't our profession.

In the beginning of 1946, we came back.

And then I searched and my father came

back from prison.

And he started again in Bukar Wolf, but

in Salbke, which is now SKL.

He started there and he asked if they

were looking for Stine de Pistien.

That was logical.

So I started as an assistant worker.

And then everything went wrong.

The halls were full of rubble.

They were full of rubble.

Now it was the case that women helped

to rebuild and de-rubble.

Of course, there were fewer men and therefore

women were also employed for this physically difficult

work.

But often it was also about the food

cards that were simply better.

Women who did not do it, got a

food card number 4.

So it was a very low level.

You could hardly live I only

worked at the main train station, station 0,

and then in the Jakobstraße from Pieterstraße through

to Hochbunker and at the Sturmbrücke.

That was my last job.

I was there for about a year and

then I looked for work.

Yes, this is the Industrie- und Einhändisbank,

an old market here at Otto von Giericke

and the Erzberger Straße, where later our 16

-story buildings stood.

The city center here in front.

And yes, these were the special corners that

were assigned to us.

We mainly had the Büroplatz, the German university

square.

Yes, there was also the Steinkippe, which you

will surely know, where they brought everything and

broke it in the Forschungsstraße.

And there we had a dear mother, who

always warmed us up with a little lunch.

That was Mrs. Lautenschläger.

I will never forget her.

Then we took our cookware and that was

put in the water bath and then we

had to eat a little.

They had to take a chair with them.

So because you could go to eat here,

there was nothing like that.

You had to take care of yourself.

From Bunker by foot to the main train

station or by bike.

And then we got there.

We didn't have any work equipment.

We had our coats on and carried them

with us.

And when it rained and snowed, we went

into such a small room.

There was an iron cannon and our things

were steaming.

And when it was dry, we went out

again.

What do you think?

Afterwards I got such a combination like the

soldiers wore such a drill suit.

The seamstress made it as a combination like

everyone has today.

And I put it on my stomach.

That was my work equipment.

We had a hammer.

We were always three men.

One picked out the stones, one knocked and

one stacked.

That's how it was done.

Up to 1,000 stones each.

There were 3,000 stones that we had

to clean first.

And then all the way down to Jakobstrasse.

We were always six or seven women.

And we had a polisher, our corporal from

Hohendodeleben.

He had us pretty much on our own.

But we also sang a lot, I have

to say.

We sang a lot of folk songs.

Melodies and lyrics that are still in my

head today.

That's how we encouraged each other when we

were knocking and had fun with each other.

Of course, we also told about friends we

had.

And when you were off in the evening

or on a Sunday night, it was a

long night.

That was also told here.

There was breakfast at home And as I

said, we also had breaks.

Before we moved, because with our work clothes

we didn't like to drive young girls through

the city.

And above all, we wore headscarves because of

the construction and the dust.

They were tied up with a knot at

the front.

But we moved.

But in the evening we put on our

civilian clothes again.

Because we wanted to be fine.

And there we picked out the stones, the

good stones.

They were knocked and stacked nicely.

And the small debris was thrown on the

car.

There were no lorries in operation like in

the city.

It was like this.

There was a car and when it was

full, it was picked up with two horses.

The whole hall had to be emptied.

It took a while.

And then suddenly they took it up.

What is that?

It shines so silver.

What is that?

I thought about it yesterday when the lady

sitting next to me found something in the

city.

We also found something.

But she picked it up as a souvenir.

I couldn't pick it up.

The whole hall was full of anti-tank

guns.

They stood there with the long tubes.

They were only so low.

They weren't that big.

You got scared when you saw that.

Solidarity was like this.

The three of us worked together to make

it easier.

If they had to look for the stones,

knock and stack them, they would never have

done a thousand pieces a day.

So we looked for the stones and then

it went hand in hand.

We had to interrupt our masonry work.

Our great master Klausnitzer Pfiffnur was like the

army and the sailors.

Then we all marched down to the tractor

and got the stones.

At that time we realized that the old

stones we were mining were the work of

women who worked very hard and optimistically to

advance the construction.

They tore it down, cleaned the stones and

then we came and loaded it up and

it went on with the masonry.

We realized for the first time that we

couldn't have worked without the women.

The respect for women who work hard and

work permanently is an important question.

To do such work for years is a

question not only of equality but also of

respect for women who not only do their

work but also do it with a high

level of awareness.

We saw the women as role models.

No arrogance.

It was an acknowledgeable activity that we fully

accepted.

There was no one who made negative comments.

The women felt that there was a mutual

relationship.

I would like to go back to that

time.

My brother sold his father's stuff at the

black market and ate dry bread or this

semolina.

You can do anything if you have to.

But we also stole coals on the main

railway.

That was the first thing we did in

the morning.

We packed our bags and sent out a

delivery.

We stole coals.

We went to the field and cut off

things like flour or wheat and barley.

We stole rye.

We cooked sugar juice.

We did everything.

Well, you have to say that after 1945

my mother stuffed a lot.

Stuffed potatoes, stuffed rye.

From that, syrup was cooked in the boiler

from the sugar rye.

Potatoes were stored.

My father, who worked at Junkers, was employed

at a company that built security systems.

A Dr. Bell in Mittagstrasse if I remember

correctly, he made drugs and there was sugar.

My father got a sugar deputy so that

we got through the situation.

The living space was given up like a

ticket.

A family with three children had access to

two rooms and a kitchen.

The big apartments in Hegelstrasse, Breitenweg, Hasselbachplatz were

shared.

And to keep these many rooms, there was

only a coal card.

And there was 12 cents of coal for

the family.

During the winter and later when the trade

organization was founded, you could buy expensive coal

through HO.

And if I go back to the beautiful

Belforterstrasse apartment where we moved to and so

many others did too, the room without ceiling

cleaning, the window didn't close, the window panes

weren't in there.

Dieler was happy to have a room and

a stove.

And everything was put in there.

During the post-war period I think of

the destroyed Magdeburg.

That's clear.

But for us young people a time of

peace We were dancing in the Dübler Mühle,

at the Olfenstädter Chaussee.

We were in Diestorf, there was the Landhaus.

We were in Old Olfenstädt at Gericke, that

was the dance floor.

Gericke or the Landhaus Olfenstädt.

But we also moved to Rotensee to be

able to dance.

That was how do you say the uproar,

the you and also.

And then I already met my husband in

1947 in the Dübler Mühle.

That was the wedding mill for us.

Many couples And today I'm 62 years married.

Yes.

Beautiful.

Our theatre was demolished, it wasn't.

But there were two cinemas.

In Bukau, UT-Palast Bukau, in Schönebecker Strasse

and in Sunenburg, UT-Palast Sunenburg in Braunschweiger

Strasse.

In Bukau operettas were shown, in Sunenburg operas

were shown.

And then the theatre came back and we

were very big theatre-goers, my husband and

I.

I got in at one o'clock in

the night when there was still theatre.

It was the premiere.

I saw all the premieres.

In the small theatre, in the Harmony, and

in UT-Palast Bukau there was operetta theatre.

You don't know that anymore, UT-Palast Bukau,

you shouldn't do that.

But those were the goals that we had.

We put ourselves there and got the tickets.

We even gave out requisites at the theatre

so that we could get theatre tickets for

Hoffmann's stories.

That was our time.

Yes, I'm actually proud of how Magdeburg has

developed.

You have to say that without hesitation.

I'm happy about every renovated house.

I'm happy about every renovated street or the

places that have been set up.

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