The general theme of this volume is Alltag in the GDR, and a special section is devoted to Berlin in commemoration of the 750th anniversary of the city's founding. Other seminar topics include regional differences in the GDR and its international environment, methodology, and literature and aesthetics. Some thirty papers were given by sociologists, political scientists, Germanists, film critics and others in combined sections. Co-published by the Symposium on the German Democratic Republic.