Remembering the German Democratic Republic : divided memory in a united Germany
Memories of and attitudes to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, within contemporary Germany are characterized by their variety and complexity, whilst the debate over how to remember the GDR tells us a lot about how Germans see themselves and their future. This volume provides a r...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan,
2011
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| Schlagworte: | Collective memory Political culture Memory Kollektives Gedächtnis Gesellschaftsleben Soziale Situation Brauch Politische Kultur Geschichtspolitik Geschichtsbewusstsein mehr... |
| Umfang: | XIV, 294 Seiten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Notes on Contributors
- PART I: INTRODUCTION
- Remembering the German Democratic Republic in a United Germany; D.Clarke & U.Wolfel
- The Politics of Remembering the GDR: Official and State-Mandated Memory since 1990; A.Beattie
- PART II: MEMORIALS AND MUSEUMS
- Representations of the Everyday and the Making of Memory: GDR History in Exhibitions and Museums; A.Ludwig
- Reinterpreting the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park after 1990; C.Glore Crimmins
- 'Transforming Berlin's Memory: Non-State Actors and GDR Memorial Politics Today; J.Wustenberg
- Reinventing Rosa Luxemburg: Commemorating Rosa Luxemburg in the Berlin Republic; B.K̲ncz̲l
- PART III: GENERATIONS
- Histories and Memories: Verkl̃rung or Erkl̃rung?; M.Fulbrook
- Generation and Transition: East German Memory Cultures; R.Lehmann
- PART IV: ORDINARY LIVES
- Did Communists Have Better Sex? Sex and the Body in German Reunification; J.McLellan
- From the 'Niche Society' to a Retreat from the World: East German Allotments as the Continuation of a GDR Tradition; A-M.Pailḧs
- 'The Era Has Passed, But It's Nice to Remember': Eastern Identifications with the GDR Past and Unified Germany; C.Hyland
- Remembering the Uprising of 17 June 1953; R.Millington
- PART V: ELITE MEMORIES
- Red Radiation: East German Army Officers in Post-Unification Germany; A.Bickford
- Autobiography as Participation in the 'Master Narrative': GDR Academics after Unification; C.Lahusen
- 'The Past Does Not Repeat Itself, But it Rhymes': Autobiographies by Elites from the Confederation of States of America and the German Democratic Republic; S.Zahlmann
- At Home with the Stasi: Gedenkst̃tte Hohensch̲nhausen as Historic House; S.Jones
- Memories and Fantasies about and by the Stasi; D.Bathrick
- Between Denigration, Idealization and Historicization: Memories of Nazism and Everyday Antifascism; J.Sayner
- PART VII: REMEMBERING ANTIFASCISM
- How Memory is Remembered: The Potsdam Memory Archive 1995-1996; H.Peitsch. Bibliography; Index;