Memorializing the GDR
Subtitle: Monuments and Memory After 1989
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781785336805
Subjects: Memorials; Germany (east), history; Germany, history, unification, 1990
Description: 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.