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The German Wall

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series

Editors: Silberman, Marc

DOI: 10.1057/9780230118577

ISBN: 978-1-349-29431-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 19, 2015

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Introduction: Where Is Germany?

Silberman, Marc

Pages: 1 –8

[When the Berlin Wall opened unexpectedly on November 9, 1989, it marked a rupture of global significance in the history of the twentieth century. For Germany’s national history, the event has become—next to the defeat of 1945—the most significant date in collective memory, advancing very quickly...
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Germany 1989: A New Type of Revolution?

Jarausch, Konrad H.

Pages: 11 –35

[During the summer of 2009, Germany was inundated by a tsunami of commemorations for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall in 1989. Newspapers such as the Tagesspiegel ran a series of personal stories, recalling the transformation of individual lives; TV networks such as ORF broadcast...
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The Different Aesthetics of the Berlin Wall

Briese, Olaf

Pages: 37 –58

[From a global perspective, the Berlin Wall was a complete anomaly. It neither closed off a state or territory from the outside world nor protected one from invasion. What’s more, it was functionally backward: it protected the East German state from the escape of its own citizens; it was a...
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Politics, Culture, and Media before and after the berlin wall

Wrage, Henning

Pages: 59 –76

[This chapter treats the political and cultural rationales that rose and fell with the Berlin Wall as well as the iconography that developed around the establishment and dissolution of the inner German border. While the standard narrative of the Wall references the brutal imprisonment of a whole...
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Re-Capitalizing Berlin

Ward, Janet

Pages: 79 –97

[In this third decade since the fall of the Wall, the center of the postmillennial, reunified Berlin is still being rebuilt by design. Planning overreach is a problem by association: after all, urban social engineers—including the Nazi Albert Speer, of course, but also avant-garde modernist...
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Interim Use at a Former Death Strip? Art, Politics, and Urbanism at Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum

Till, Karen E.

Pages: 99 –122

[Twenty years after unification, Berlin continues to promote the (re) building of the city through marketing practices, including tours, white models, viewing platforms, and buildings wrapped with plastic façades to depict future urban scenes for residents and visitors to imagine. Although these...
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Jugendweihe: Revitalizing a Socialist Coming-of-Age Ceremony in Unified Berlin

Wolbert, Barbara

Pages: 123 –142

[Berlin in the spring of 2009: at a youth initiation event, called Jugendweihe, a poem entitled “Walpurgisnacht” is read in front of the girls and boys and their families.1 The poem’s last four lines refer to Germany’s East-West divide: “… when the sun happens to shine at night / when Germany...
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Neither Eastern nor Welcome: The Confused Lives of Berlin’s Balkan Migrants, 1950–2000

Blumi, Isa

Pages: 145 –164

[Throughout this volume, Berlin’s modern history is associated with division. Often lost in this history are the contributions that hundreds of thousands of migrants and “postmigrants” made in sustaining these divisions. By the time Social Democrat Klaus Wowereit became mayor in 2001, for...
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Class of 1989: Who Made Good and Who Dropped Out of German History? Postmigrant Documentary Theater in Berlin

Sieg, Katrin

Pages: 165 –183

[In the documentary play Klassentreffen: Die Zweite Generation {Class Reunion: The Second Generation), Özcan Mutlu, a local politician familiar to many residents of Kreuzberg, remembers growing up in walled-in West Berlin. The fortified division of Berlin, including its public transit system, not...
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On Italian Bridges: Navigating Rocks and Hard Places in Post-Wall Europe

Insana, Lina

Pages: 187 –204

[In a 1999 interview, Francesco Renda made the following provocative statement: I would like to preface my comments starting with a fundamental consideration: that is, that the geopolitical position of Sicily has changed This geopolitical change coincides with the end of the second millennium,...

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