Remembering the German Democratic Republic [electronic resource] : Divided Memory in a United Germany /
Clarke, D.editor.
Wölfel, U.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Part I: Introduction; 1 Remembering the German Democratic Republic in a United Germany; 2 The Politics of Remembering the GDR: Official and State-Mandated Memory since 1990; Part II: Memorials and Museums; 3 Representations of the Everyday and the Making of Memory: GDR History and Museums; 4 Reinterpreting the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park after 1990; 5 Transforming Berlin's Memory: Non-State Actors and GDR Memorial Politics
6 Reinventing a Socialist Heroine: Commemorating Rosa Luxemburg after UnificationPart III: Generations; 7 Histories and Memories: Verklärung or Erklärung?; 8 Generation and Transition: East German Memory Cultures; Part IV: Ordinary Lives; 9 Did Communists Have Better Sex? Sex and the Body in German Unification; 10 From the 'Niche Society' to a Retreat from Society: East German Allotments as the Continuation of a Tradition?; 11 'The Era Has Passed, But it's Nice to Remember': Eastern Identifications with the GDR Past and Unified Germany; 12 Remembering the Uprising of 17 June 1953
Part V: Elite Memories13 Red Radiation: East German Army Officers in Post-Unification Germany; 14 Autobiography as Participation in the 'Master Narrative': GDR Academics after Unification; 15 'The Past Does Not Repeat itself, But it Rhymes': Autobiographies by Elites from the Confederate States of America and the German Democratic Republic; Part VI: Remembering the Stasi; 16 At Home with the Stasi: Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen as Historic House; 17 Memories and Fantasies About and By the Stasi; Part VII: Remembering Antifascism
18 Between Denigration, Idealization and Historicization: Memories of Nazism and Everyday Antifascism19 How Memory is Remembered: The Potsdam Memory Archive (1995-6); Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p.266-288) and index.
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.
World politics.
Social history.
Civilization—History.
Europe, Central—History.
Historiography.
Europe—History.
Political History.
Social History.
Cultural History.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
Historiography and Method.
European History.