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Memorializing the GDR : monuments and memory after 1989 / / Anna Saunders



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Autore: Saunders Anna <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Memorializing the GDR : monuments and memory after 1989 / / Anna Saunders Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2018
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (382 pages)
Disciplina: 943/.1087
Soggetto topico: Memorials - Germany (East)
Memorialization - Political aspects - Germany (East)
Collective memory - Germany (East)
Soggetto geografico: Germany (East) History
Germany History Unification, 1990 Influence
Soggetto non controllato: 20th century
art
berlin wall
civic
collective forms of memory
commemorative projects
conflicting memories
diplomacy
east germany
eastern germany
europe
gdr
german culture
german democratic republic
german history
german society
historical contexts
history
identity
karl marx
memorial culture
memory
modern german history
occupied germany
peaceful revolution
public memory
regional constructions
retrospective
revolutionaries
social change
social history
social issues
socialist monuments
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Memory debates and the built environment since unification -- 'Working through' the GDR past -- A shifting memorial culture -- Memory, monuments and memorialization -- Notions of, and problems with, collective forms of memory -- Monuments, memorials and 'memory markers' -- Socialist icons: from heroes to villains? -- The role of monuments in the GDR -- Transition: October 1989 to October 1990 -- Eastern Berlin I: from unification to Lenin's fall -- Eastern Berlin II: from the commission's recommendations to -- Thalmann's survival -- Demolition debates beyond Berlin: Chemnitz's 'nischel' -- Modification: a modern makeover for Halle's flag monument -- Relocation: finding a new home for Leipzig's Karl Marx relief -- Conclusion: the ever-present narrative of 1989 -- Soviet special camps: reassessing a repressed past -- Special camps and interrogation centres -- Commemoration without monumentalization: representing silenced memories at Buchenwald -- Emotive symbolism and reconciliation at Funfeichen -- Breaking the silence: historical revision in Greifswald -- A monument without answers? Haftstatte Prenzlauer Allee, Berlin --
Conclusion: Revoking silence -- 17 June 1953 uprisings: remembering a failed revolution -- Conflicting interpretations in Berlin: Katharina Karrenberg, Wolfgang Ruppel and beyond -- Remembering Hennigsdorf's steelworkers -- Tank tracks in Leipzig -- Tank tracks in Dresden -- Conclusion: diverse remembrance -- The Berlin Wall: historical document, tourist magnet or urban eyesore? -- The early post-Wende years: from commodification to preservation -- Ubergange: Remembering border crossings and transitions -- Bernauer Strasse wall memorial (Part I): peripheral remembrance? -- Victimhood and visibility I: Remembering child vicitms in Treptow -- Victimhood and visibility II: White crosses in duplicate -- Victimhood and visibility III: The Freedom Memorial, Checkpoint Charlie -- Towards decentralised remembrance: the gesamtkonzept and Bernauer Strasse (Part II) -- Conclusion: Shifting remembrance -- Remembering the 'peaceful revolution' and German unity -- Building national memory? Berlin's freedom and unity monument -- Remembering the Leipzig demonstrations: the Nikolaikirchhof and beyond -- Schwerin's controversial remembrance of the round table -- Swords into ploughshares: Dessau's peace bell -- Transforming the fortunes of Magdeburg? the development of a citizens' monument -- A truly democratic project? Plauen's Wende monument -- Conclusion: The concrete legacy of the peaceful revolution -- Conclusion: Beyond the palimpsest -- What remains? -- Dominant narratives -- Dialogic remembrance and entangled memories.
Sommario/riassunto: Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, political, and historical contexts. Emphasizing the interrelationship of built environment, memory and identity, it brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history, as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of identity.
Titolo autorizzato: Memorializing the GDR  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78533-681-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910796866303321
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