The GDR remembered : representations of the East German state since 1989
Verlagsinfo: Competing representations of the former East German state in the German cultural memory. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the consequences of the country's divided past continue to be debated. The legacy of the German Democratic Republic occupies a major role in Germ...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English German |
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Rochester, NY [u.a.] : Camden House,
2011
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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| Schlagworte: | Collective memory Popular culture Deutschland Kollektives Gedächtnis Geschichte 1989-2010 Film Literatur Museum Gedenkstätte Geschichtsschreibung |
| Umfang: | VI, 300 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- From Berlin to Prenzlau : representations of GDR theater in film and literature Laura Bradley
- Melancholy and historical loss : postunification portrayals of GDR writers and artists Anne O'Driscoll
- Literary portrayals of the GDR by non-GDR citizens Stuart Parkes
- Screening the Stasi : the politics of representation in postunification film Nick Hodgin
- "The spirit of an epoch is not just reflected in pictures and books, but also in pots and frying pans" : GDR museums and memories of everyday life Silke Arnold-de Simine
- Re-mapping the wall : the wall memorial in Bernauer Strasse : from an unloved Cold War monument to a new type of memorial site Gunter Schlusche
- Commemorating the Berlin Wall Pertti Ahonen
- The evolution of memorial sites in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 1990 Andreas Wagner
- An unequal balance? : memorializing Germany's "double past" since 1990 Caroline Pearce
- Living through the GDR : history, life stories, and generations in East Germany Mary Fulbrook
- Competing master narratives : Geschichtspolitik and identity discourse in three German societies Thomas Ahbe
- Worin noch niemand war : the GDR as retrospectively imagined community Peter Thompson
- GDR historiography after the end of the GDR : debates, renewals, and the question of what remains Stefan Berger.