Virtual Walls?
Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Germany
1st Edition
Published on 8. December 2017
212 pages
978-1-78744-168-2 (ISBN)
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A reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished journey.
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Franziska Lys | Michael Dreyer
Virtual Walls?
Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Germany
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12/2017
Camden House Inc
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STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.
STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.
Content
Introduction: United Politics-Divided Culture? - Franziska Lys and Michael Dreyer
Lost in Transition: Reflections on the Spectral History of the GDR - Charles S. Maier
Reconstituting the Federal Republic? Constitutional Law and Politics before and since 1989 - Andreas Niederberger
East German Literature and Reunification: Continuities and Discontinuities - Stephen Brockmann
The Afterlife of the GDR in Post-Wall German Cinema - Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien
Exhibiting 1989/2009: Memory, Affect, and the Politics of History - Kerstin Barndt
Reexamining the Staatskünstler Myth: Bernhard Heisig and the Post-Wall Reception of East German Painting - April A. Eisman
East German Orchestras and Theaters: The Transformation since the Wende - Daniel Ortuno-Stühring
What Do German High School Students Think about the GDR? Memory Culture between Glorification and Evaluation - Andreas Eis
The Ongoing Significance of East Germany and the Wende Narrative in Public Discourse - Michael Dreyer
Epilogue: The Wende and the End of "the German Problem" - Peter Hayes
Notes on the Contributors
Index
Lost in Transition: Reflections on the Spectral History of the GDR - Charles S. Maier
Reconstituting the Federal Republic? Constitutional Law and Politics before and since 1989 - Andreas Niederberger
East German Literature and Reunification: Continuities and Discontinuities - Stephen Brockmann
The Afterlife of the GDR in Post-Wall German Cinema - Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien
Exhibiting 1989/2009: Memory, Affect, and the Politics of History - Kerstin Barndt
Reexamining the Staatskünstler Myth: Bernhard Heisig and the Post-Wall Reception of East German Painting - April A. Eisman
East German Orchestras and Theaters: The Transformation since the Wende - Daniel Ortuno-Stühring
What Do German High School Students Think about the GDR? Memory Culture between Glorification and Evaluation - Andreas Eis
The Ongoing Significance of East Germany and the Wende Narrative in Public Discourse - Michael Dreyer
Epilogue: The Wende and the End of "the German Problem" - Peter Hayes
Notes on the Contributors
Index
