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

✍ Scribed by David Clarke, Ute Wölfel (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Remembering the German Democratic Republic in a United Germany....Pages 3-22
The Politics of Remembering the GDR: Official and State-Mandated Memory since 1990....Pages 23-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Representations of the Everyday and the Making of Memory: GDR History and Museums....Pages 37-53
Reinterpreting the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park after 1990....Pages 54-64
Transforming Berlin’s Memory: Non-State Actors and GDR Memorial Politics....Pages 65-76
Reinventing a Socialist Heroine: Commemorating Rosa Luxemburg after Unification....Pages 77-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Histories and Memories: Verklärung or Erklärung?....Pages 91-101
Generation and Transition: East German Memory Cultures....Pages 102-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Did Communists Have Better Sex? Sex and the Body in German Unification....Pages 119-130
From the ‘Niche Society’ to a Retreat from Society: East German Allotments as the Continuation of a Tradition?....Pages 131-143
‘The Era Has Passed, But it’s Nice to Remember’: Eastern Identifications with the GDR Past and Unified Germany....Pages 144-156
Remembering the Uprising of 17 June 1953....Pages 157-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Red Radiation: East German Army Officers in Post-Unification Germany....Pages 169-181
Autobiography as Participation in the ‘Master Narrative’: GDR Academics after Unification....Pages 182-194
‘The Past Does Not Repeat itself, But it Rhymes’: Autobiographies by Elites from the Confederate States of America and the German Democratic Republic....Pages 195-207
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
At Home with the Stasi: Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen as Historic House....Pages 211-222
Memories and Fantasies About and By the Stasi....Pages 223-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Between Denigration, Idealization and Historicization: Memories of Nazism and Everyday Antifascism....Pages 237-248
How Memory is Remembered: The Potsdam Memory Archive (1995–6)....Pages 249-265
Back Matter....Pages 266-294

✦ Subjects

Political History; Social History; Cultural History; History of Germany and Central Europe; Historiography and Method; European History