Memorializing the GDR : monuments and memory after 1989 / / Anna Saunders |
Autore | Saunders Anna <1967-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 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 |
ISBN | 1-78533-681-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796866303321 |
Saunders Anna <1967->
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New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2018 | ||
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Memorializing the GDR : monuments and memory after 1989 / / Anna Saunders |
Autore | Saunders Anna <1967-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 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 |
ISBN | 1-78533-681-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810019403321 |
Saunders Anna <1967->
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New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2018 | ||
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Where the world ended : re-unification and identity in the German borderland / / Daphne Berdahl |
Autore | Berdahl Daphne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1999] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
Disciplina | 341.42 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnology - Germany
Social change - Germany - Kella |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
berlin wall border zones contemporary cultural studies daily life east germany economic economics ethnographic ethnography european history finance german government german politics government identity international politics liminal spaces liminality modern history modern world political politics scholarly social studies socialism socialist true story wartime west germany world history world politics |
ISBN |
1-283-29170-3
9786613291707 0-520-92132-1 0-585-12957-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Village on the Border -- 2. Publicity, Secrecy, and the Politics of Everyday Life -- 3. The Seventh Station -- 4. Consuming Differences -- 5. Borderlands -- 6. Design Women -- 7. The Dis-membered Border -- Epilogue: The Tree of Unity -- Glossary of Terms -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778864603321 |
Berdahl Daphne
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1999] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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