Memorializing the GDR monuments and memory after 1989

Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of...

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Main Author: Saunders, Anna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Berghahn Books 2018
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
20th Century
berlin wall
civic
collective forms of memory
Collective memory
commemorative projects
conflicting memories
diplomacy
east germany
eastern germany
Europe
gdr
german culture
german democratic republic
german history
german society
Germany
historical contexts
HISTORY
HISTORY / Europe / Germany
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General
identity
karl marx
memorial culture
Memorialization
Memorials
memory
Modern
modern german history
occupied germany
peaceful revolution
public memory
regional constructions
retrospective
revolutionaries
social change
Social History
social issues
socialist monuments
memory
peaceful revolution
east germany
german society
civic
socialist monuments
commemorative projects
20th century
social issues
berlin wall
identity
historical contexts
german democratic republic
collective forms of memory
europe
karl marx
art
public memory
occupied germany
social history
modern german history
retrospective
history
conflicting memories
regional constructions
memorial culture
german history
eastern germany
diplomacy
gdr
german culture
social change
revolutionaries
ISBN:1785336819, 1785336800, 9781785336812, 9781785336805
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Summary:Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, political, and historical contexts. Emphasizing the interrelationship of built environment, memory and identity, it brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history, as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of identity.
ISBN:1785336819
1785336800
9781785336812
9781785336805
DOI:10.1515/9781785336812