The GDR today : new interdisciplinary approaches to East German history, memory and culture / edited by Stephan Ehrig, Marcel Thomas and David Zell

"The GDR Today promotes interdisciplinary approaches to East Germany by gathering articles from a new generation of scholars in the fields of literary and visual studies, history, sociology, translation studies, political science, museum studies and curating practice. The contributors to this v...

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Corporate Authors:Peter Lang Ltd. (Publisher)
Other Authors:Ehrig, Stephan (Editor)
Thomas, Marcel (Editor)
Zell, David (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Oxford ; Bern ; Berlin ; Bruxelles ; New York ; Wien : Peter Lang, [2018]
© 2018
Series:Studies in modern German and Austrian literature Volume 6
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Introduction: the GDR today Stephan Ehrig, Marcel Thomas and David Zell
Memory in the narratives of Christoph Hein - Christoph Hein in narratives of memory Richard Slipp
Who is Heinz Stielke? : questions of identity in Michael Kann's Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn Elizabeth Ward
Investigating the (un)translatability of the GDR Mary Frank
Deconstructing revolutionary traditions: Stefan Schütz's Kohlhaas Stephan Ehrig
Music, the GDR military and the GDR today in the works of Walter Flegel Tom Smith
Agent of socialism : the knowledge of the East German academic librarian Christian Rau
The GDR in Ortschroniken and Heimatbücher after 1990 Dirk Thomaschke
Beyond Ostalgie : villagers and social change in East and West Germany Marcel Thomas
Memory as transmission : East German families remember the GDR Hanna Haag
Socialization, downgrading and othering : the formation of identity of young 'East Germans' Daniel Kubiak
Classroom memory debates on the GDR Marie Müller-Zetzsche
(Re)unifying narratives : the political memory of opposition at museums of the GDR Michaela Dixon
Post-Ostalgie : how German visual culture gradually overcomes binary representations of everyday life in the former GDR Stefanie Kreibich
'Modell DDR' : performative memory as curatorial practice Susanne Wernsing