From there she made her way to the Lyzeum (as the school was then known) in Rostock each day, which involved the narrow gauge coastal railway, a lot of walking, and a journey time in each direction of two and a half hours.
As the daughter of a "bourgeois" small businessman – even a dead one – Liesel Carow found herself at or near the back of the queue for university places, and she was unable to study Law or Chemistry at Rostock as she had hoped.
"Musik und Gesellschaft" was a casualty of reunification in 1990, but her thoughtful contributions have continued to appear in other specialist and national publications including Neues Deutschland.
Her work was supervised by Günter Mayer from the Humboldt University although the doctorate itself was awarded by another Berlin academic institution, the Central Committee's Academy for Social Sciences.
[4] The return to full-time research involved taking a temporary break from her editorial duties and her salary was for a time suspended, but she was supported by a stipendium during this period.
Eisler, the man who had composed the East German national anthem, was an interesting and fruitful choice of subject on various levels, although unfortunately the dissertation has not yet been published.