Remembering the German Democratic Republic: Divided Memory in a United Germany

By David Clarke

Book Overview

Foreword Notes on the Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION Remembering the German Democratic Republic in a United Germany; D.Clarke & U.Wolfel The Politics of Remembering the GDR: Official and State-Mandated Memory since 1990; A.Beattie PART II: MEMORIALS AND MUSEUMS Representations of the Everyday and the Making of Memory: GDR History in Exhibitions and Museums; A.Ludwig Reinterpreting the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park after 1990; C.Glore Crimmins 'Transforming Berlin's Memory: Non-State Actors and GDR Memorial Politics Today; J.Wustenberg Reinventing Rosa Luxemburg: Commemorating Rosa Luxemburg in the Berlin Republic; B.Konczol PART III: GENERATIONS Histories and Memories: Verklarung or Erklarung?; M.Fulbrook Generation and Transition: East German Memory Cultures; R.Lehmann PART IV: ORDINARY LIVES Did Communists Have Better Sex? Sex and the Body in German Reunification; J.McLellan From the 'Niche Society' to a Retreat from the World: East German Allotments as the Continuation of a GDR Tradition; A-M.Pailhes 'The Era Has Passed, But It's Nice to Remember': Eastern Identifications with the GDR Past and Unified Germany; C.Hyland Remembering the Uprising of 17 June 1953; R.Millington PART V: ELITE MEMORIES Red Radiation: East German Army Officers in Post-Unification Germany; A.Bickford Autobiography as Participation in the 'Master Narrative': GDR Academics after Unification; C.Lahusen 'The Past Does Not Repeat Itself, But it Rhymes': Autobiographies by Elites from the Confederation of States of America and the German Democratic Republic; S.Zahlmann At Home with the Stasi: Gedenkstatte Hohenschonhausen as Historic House; S.Jones Memories and Fantasies about and by the Stasi; D.Bathrick Between Denigration, Idealization and Historicization: Memories of Nazism and Everyday Antifascism; J.Sayner PART VII: REMEMBERING ANTIFASCISM How Memory is Remembered: The Potsdam Memory Archive 1995-1996; H.Peitsch Notes Bibliography

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349324868
• ISBN13: 9781349324866
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"