03037nam 2200493 450 991079273130332120170223081042.01-80073-008-X10.1515/9781785333033(CKB)3710000001123495(MiAaPQ)EBC4676997(DE-B1597)636263(DE-B1597)9781785333033(EXLCZ)99371000000112349520170407h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierNarratives in the making writing the East German past in the democratic present /Anselma GallinatNew York :Berghahn Books,2017.©20171 online resource (242 pages) illustrations1-78533-303-8 1-78533-302-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Questions of Discourse, Narrative, and Memory after Fundamental Regime Change -- Chapter One. Remembering East Germany in the United Nation: The Second German Dictatorship and Dual History -- Chapter Two. Institutions That Write Memory: The Working Group Aufarbeitung and the Daily Paper Introduced -- Chapter Three. Debating the Past at the Daily Paper: The East German Border Regime -- Chapter Four. Ordering Memory for Government: Everyday Life in East Germany -- Chapter Five. What Makes an Aufarbeiter and a Journalist? -- Chapter Six. Democracy in Trouble: Remembering to Safeguard the Future -- Chapter Seven. Memory for Citizenship: The Trouble with Democracy -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- IndexDespite the three decades that have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the historical narrative of East Germany is hardly fixed in public memory, as German society continues to grapple with the legacies of the Cold War. This fascinating ethnography looks at two very different types of local institutions in one eastern German state that take divergent approaches to those legacies: while publicly funded organizations reliably cast the GDR as a dictatorship, a main regional newspaper offers a more ambivalent perspective colored by the experiences and concerns of its readers. As author Anselma Gallinat shows, such memory work—initially undertaken after fundamental regime change—inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy in the present.Anthropology and historyGermanyCollective memoryGermanyGermany (East)HistoriographySocial aspectsAnthropology and historyCollective memory943/.1087NB 5550rvkGallinat Anselma1513358MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792731303321Narratives in the making3747801UNINA