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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784204003321

Autore

Till Karen E

Titolo

The new Berlin : memory, politics, place / / Karen E. Till

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

0-8166-9402-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xii, 279 pages)

Disciplina

943/.155088

Soggetti

Memory - Political aspects - Germany

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence

Berlin (Germany) History 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A fence, June 1999 -- Hauntings, memory, place -- Infobox, July 1997 -- The new Berlin: from Kiez to Kosmos -- A flyer -- The Gestapo terrain: landscape, digging, open wounds -- Fieldnotes: the topography of terror, 1994 and 2002 -- Berlin's Ort der Täter: a historic site of perpetrators -- A neighborhood -- Aestheticizing the rupture: Berlin's Holocaust Memorial -- A newspaper article -- Memory in the new Berlin.

Sommario/riassunto

Four locations frame The New Berlin: the Topography of Terror, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Jewish Museum, and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum. Through field notes, interviews, archival texts, personal narratives, public art, maps, images, and other sources, Karen Till describes how these places and spaces exemplify the contradictions and tensions of social memory and national identity.