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Remembering the German Democratic Republic
Author | : D. Clarke,U. Wölfel |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230349698 |
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Memories of and attitudes to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, within contemporary Germany are characterized by their variety and complexity, whilst the debate over how to remember the GDR tells us a lot about how Germans see themselves and their future. This volume provides a range of international perspectives.
Remembering the German Democratic Republic
Author | : D. Clarke,U. Wölfel |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230349698 |
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Memories of and attitudes to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, within contemporary Germany are characterized by their variety and complexity, whilst the debate over how to remember the GDR tells us a lot about how Germans see themselves and their future. This volume provides a range of international perspectives.
Memorializing the GDR
Author | : Anna Saunders |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2018-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781785336812 |
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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.
Born in the GDR
Author | : Hester Vaizey |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198718741 |
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The real life stories of eight East Germans caught up in the dramatic transition from Communism to Capitalism by the fall of the Berlin Wall - and what they feel about life after the Wall.
Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic
Author | : Chris Weedon |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2023-08-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004544901 |
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More than thirty years after German reunification, Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic addresses how life in the GDR is remembered, thereby enriching and complexifying the narratives of East German life found in public history, museums, tourist venues, film, media and popular fiction. The frequent stress on material lack, social restrictions and the repressive state is expanded and reconfigured by interviewees who variously both challenge and confirm widespread assumptions about what it meant to live in the GDR. Aimed at a wide readership, this book gives English-speaking readers access to varied and detailed accounts of everyday life, individual engagement with state institutions and different views of GDR politics, society and culture.
AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany
Author | : Josie McLellan,Lecturer in Modern European History Josie McLellan |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2004-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199276264 |
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AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany is a book about remembering and about forgetting, about war, and about the peace which eventually followed. In the unlikely setting of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Spanish Civil War became the subject of a debate which both predated and outlasted the Cold War, involving historians, veterans, politicains, censors, artists, writers, and Church activists. Examining these multiple memories and interpretations of Spain castsnew and unexpected light on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, and the relationship between history and memory under state socialism.The ruling Socialist Unity Party made full use of the antifascist legacy as legitimation for a non-democratic state. But despite dogged attempts at control and censorship, the state was unable to silence competing voices. All over East Germany, International Brigade veterans preserved their version of events - in letters to each other, in communications with the party, in discussions with friends and family around the kitchen table, and in memoirs written for the 'desk drawer'. For younger EastGermans, the war retained an undeniably romantic aura. From their perspective, Spain was a far-away land to which they were forbidden to travel, the stuff of camp-fire singalongs and fantasies of adventure.This book dissects the relationship between state-sponsored history, the lobbying of veterans, cultural interpretations of war, and the memory traces left behind by marginalised or politically oppositional groups and individuals. It is a cultural history of memory under state socialism, a social history of veteran groups and their relationship with the state, and a political history of communist culture. Above all, it is the story of how post-war Europeans came to terms with the heavy burden oftheir pre-war past.
Born in the GDR
Author | : Hester Vaizey |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191028830 |
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The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and upheaval: from the way they voted, the newspapers they read, to the brand of butter they bought. But what was it really like to go from living under communism one minute, to capitalism the next? What did the East Germans make of capitalism? And how do they remember the GDR today? Are their memories dominated by fear and loathing of the Stasi state, or do they look back with a measure of fondness and regret on a world of guaranteed employment and low living costs? This is the story of eight citizens of the former German Democratic Republic, and how these dramatic changes affected them. All of the people in the book were born in East Germany after the Berlin Wall was put up in August 1961, so they knew nothing other than living in a socialist system when the GDR fell apart. Their stories provide a fascinating insight not only into everyday life in East Germany, but also into how this now-vanished state is remembered today, a quarter of a century after the fall of the Wall.
The German Democratic Republic
Author | : Peter Grieder |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2012-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781350307322 |
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A clear, concise and thought-provoking introduction to the history of East Germany which engages critically with key debates and advances new interpretations of the origins, development and demise of the GDR. Peter Grieder also offers an original conceptualization of the GDR as a totalitarian welfare state.