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In youth research as well as in research in old age, there has been a tendency to examine each generation separately - an approach that tries to comprehend youth and old age within their respective boundaries, as isolated entities. However, by neglecting the interrelations between the different generations, several key aspects that are crucial to the formation of their respective identity remain elusive. Given a model of three generations - of youth, middle generation and old age -, both youth and old age share a common social dependency on the middle generation in many respects. Moreover, those generations are dominated by the middle one and only take a marginal position in comparison. The relation between the surrounding generations and the ‘middle’ generation (for which there is no proper term actually) could be described best as “not yet” or “not any more”. These circumstances certainly have an impact on the formation of individual identity within the generations of youth and old age: the process of evaluating the norms, values, models and ideals of the middle generation (which are central to and preferred by society) plays a substantial role in the development of identity. The course of this process and its outcome are often similar with both the young and the elderly people, whilst there are also clear differences. In my contribution, I would like to outline the ramifications of this social dependence with regard to the impact it has on the formation of identity in the generation of the elderly people. Similarly, I intend to give impetus to a reflection on the forms of interdependence between the young and the middle generation as well as between the young and the elderly. Also, I would like to discuss the effects these interrelations have on young people’s identity.
Auf der Grandlage eines Drei-Generationen-Modells (Jugend, mittlere Generation, Alter) wird dargestellt, welche Anlässe es für alte Menschen zur Kommunikation mit Angehörigen der eigenen wie auch der anderen Generationen gibt. Dabei wird nach familiären, institutionellen und freien Kommunikationssituationen differenziert. Jede Konstellation wird in Hinblick auf Quantität und Qualität der Kommunikation sowie auf mögliche Erschwernisse und Probleme, insbesondere auch als Folge von körperlichen Gebrechen, charakterisiert. Auf diese Weise entsteht ein Bild des „kommunikativen Haushalts“ (Luckmann) der älteren Generation, das auf Schwachstellen hin überprüft wird. In einem letzten Schritt wird skizziert, welche Möglichkeiten zur Intensivierung der intra- wie der intergenerationellen Kommunikation bestehen.