Das mit den Männern und den Frau'n" ("That with the Men and the Women") was the name of a 1988 album by the singing actress Eva-Maria Hagen, which also featured Wolf Biermann and her daughter Nina Hagen. She sang in many different ways about variations of love and above all about what happened and changed dramatically in the play of the sexes. Several DEFA feature films also dealt with the relationship between the sexes in socialist and private everyday life in a comparatively open, relaxed and realistic way, with men and women living together in cooperation as well as in tension. The children's film "Alfons Zitterbacke" describes the division of labour in the Zitterbacke family, which still seems modern today: housework is shared as a matter of course. In "Das Schulgespenst", equality is similarly self-evident. The good girl in the pleated skirt is just not the normal case here, and the girl Carola Huflattich pulls herself out of the mess by her own hair without any male saviour at all. Rolf Losansky's children's film is a praise of stubbornness and does without gender clichés. "Spur der Steine", on the other hand, presents Manfred Krug as a broad-legged balla with a wide-brimmed hat and at the same time as a quintessential macho type, while Gitta Nickel describes the problems of equal rights for women in a differentiated way in "Sie". (Photo: "Sie")