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When the Wall Came Down
When the Wall Came Down provides a wide-ranging compendium of responses in Germany and other countries to the events of 1989-90, and includes essays by Henry Kissinger, Vaclav Havel, Ralf Dahrendorf and Timothy Garton Ash.
The Victims at the Berlin Wall, 1961-1989
Although many deaths at the Berlin Wall have been publicized over the years in the media, the number, identity and fate of the victims still remain largely unknown. This handbook changes this by answering the following questions: How many people actually died at the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989? Who were these people? How did they die? How were their relatives and their friends treated after their deaths? What public and political reactions were triggered in the East and the West by these fatalities? What were the consequences for the border guards who pulled the trigger and the military and political leaders who gave them their orders after the East German border regime collapsed and the Wall fell? How have the victims been commemorated since their deaths? By documenting the lives and circumstances under which these men and women died at the Wall, these deaths are placed in a contemporary historical context. The authors, in addition to systematically researching the relevant archives and examining all the legal proceedings and Stasi documents, also conducted interviews with family members and contemporary witnesses.
Post-Imperial Brecht
Post-Imperial Brecht challenges prevailing views of Brecht's theatre and politics. Kruger focuses much of her analysis in regions where Brecht has had special resonance, including East Germany, and South Africa, where Brechtian philosophy has been vigorously employed in the anti-apartheid movement. Kruger also analyses political interpretations of Brecht in light of other key dramatists, including Heiner MÜller and Athol Fugard. The book also examines Brechtian influence on writers and philosophers such as Adorno, Benjamin, and Barthes.
Germany's Second Chance
How does a country reconstitute itself as a functioning democracy after a period of dictatorship? The new community may execute, imprison, or temporarily disenfranchise some citizens, but it will be unable to exclude all who supported the fallen regime. Political reconciliation must lay the groundwork for political trust. Democracy offers the compromised--and many who were more than just compromised--a second chance. In this new book, Anne Sa'adah explores twentieth-century Germany's second chances. Drawing on evidence from intellectual debates, trials, literary works, controversies about the actions of public figures, and partisan competition, Sa'adah analyzes German responses to the proble...
Becoming East German
For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a single-minded emphasis on repression and coercion fails to address a number of important historical issues, including those related to the subjective experiences of those who lived under communist regimes. With that in mind, the essays in this volume explore significant physical and psychological aspects of life in the GDR, such as health and diet, leisure and dining, memories of the Nazi past, as well as identity, sports, and experiences of everyday humiliation. Situating the GDR within a broader historical context, they open up new ways of interpreting life behind the Iron Curtain – while providing a devastating critique of misleading mainstream scholarship, which continues to portray the GDR in the restrictive terms of totalitarian theory.
Kaleidoscopic Mind
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Twenty Years on
New essays on the evolution of cultural memory of the former German Democratic Republic since 1989-90 and its importance for Germany's continuing unification process. Twenty years on from the dramatic events that led to the opening of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the GDR, the subjective dimension of German unification is still far from complete. The nature of the East German state remains a matter of cultural as well as political debate. This volume of new research focuses on competing memories of the GDR and the ways they have evolved in the mass media, literature, and film since 1989-90. Taking as its point ofdeparture the impact of iconic visual images of the fall of the Wall on ou...
'Wende' und 'Einheit' im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur
Das zweibändige Handbuch ist die erste umfassende Gesamtdarstellung der literarischen Verarbeitung von "Wende" und deutscher "Einheit". Band I informiert zunächst ausführlich über den sich nach 1989 rapide verändernden Literaturbetrieb, sprachliche Aspekte der "Wende" und wesentliche Feuilletondebatten. Im Zentrum stehen exemplarische Analysen wichtiger Essays, Tagebücher und Autobiografien, Protokolle, Erzählungen, Romane, Gedichte und Dramen u.a. von Christa Wolf, Volker Braun, Brigitte Burmeister, Christoph Hein. Weitere Kapitel setzen sich mit dem Phänomen der "Ostalgie", Figuren wie "IM", "Ossi" und "Wessi", häufig wiederkehrenden Metaphern und Motiven sowie intertextuellen Beziehungen auseinander. Band II enthält die bisher umfangreichste thematisch ausgerichtete Bibliografie von Primär- und Sekundärtexten. Durch die systematische Betrachtung von Texten aller Gattungen wird das bisherige Bild der sogenannten "Wendeliteratur" in vielerlei Hinsicht korrigiert und erweitert.
