Ilse Kokula

She sought and found support so that she could catch up on her schooling and study social work at the Higher Technical College.

These and many other discussions were published in the "Lesbian-Gay Emancipation Documents" section of the Homosexual Lifestyles Unit (edited by the Senate Department for Youth and Family, Berlin).

[7] Kokula connected many lesbians from East and West, from the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and thereafter.

As a lesbian researcher and emancipation fighter, the role of a gender equality officer in the administration was a source of tension inside and outside the institutions and stakeholders.

Since her retirement in 2004, she has been working as a volunteer at the Frieda Women's Center in Berlin,[10] where she regularly organizes lectures and discussions on various aspects of lesbian life.