Remembering the German Democratic Republic

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Remembering the German Democratic Republic in a United Germany

      • David Clarke, Ute Wölfel

      Pages 3-22

   3. The Politics of Remembering the GDR: Official and State-Mandated Memory since 1990

      • Andrew H. Beattie

      Pages 23-34

3. Memorials and Museums

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Representations of the Everyday and the Making of Memory: GDR History and Museums

      • Andreas Ludwig

      Pages 37-53

   3. Reinterpreting the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park after 1990

      • Courtney Glore Crimmins

      Pages 54-64

   4. Transforming Berlin’s Memory: Non-State Actors and GDR Memorial Politics

      • Jenny Wüstenberg

      Pages 65-76

   5. Reinventing a Socialist Heroine: Commemorating Rosa Luxemburg after Unification

      • Barbara Könczöl

      Pages 77-87

4. Generations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Histories and Memories: Verklärung or Erklärung?

      • Mary Fulbrook

      Pages 91-101

   3. Generation and Transition: East German Memory Cultures

      • René Lehmann

      Pages 102-115

5. Ordinary Lives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Did Communists Have Better Sex? Sex and the Body in German Unification

      • Josie McLellan

      Pages 119-130

   3. From the ‘Niche Society’ to a Retreat from Society: East German Allotments as the Continuation of a Tradition?

      • Anne-Marie Pailhès

      Pages 131-143

   4. ‘The Era Has Passed, But it’s Nice to Remember’: Eastern Identifications with the GDR Past and Unified Germany

      • Claire Hyland

      Pages 144-156

   5. Remembering the Uprising of 17 June 1953

      • Richard Millington

      Pages 157-166

6. Elite Memories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Red Radiation: East German Army Officers in Post-Unification Germany

      • Andrew Bickford

      Pages 169-181

   3. Autobiography as Participation in the ‘Master Narrative’: GDR Academics after Unification

      • Christiane Lahusen

      Pages 182-194

Memories of and attitudes to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, within contemporary Germany are characterized by their variety and complexity, whilst the debate over how to remember the GDR tells us a lot about how Germans see themselves and their future. This volume provides a range of international perspectives.

• Berlin
• communism
• fascism
• Germany
• history
• politics
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

• Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath, UK

  David Clarke

• Department of Modern Languages and European Studies, University of Reading, UK

  Ute Wölfel

DAVID BATHRICK Professor of German and Jewish Studies, Cornell University, USA. ANDREW BEATTIE Lecturer in German and European Studies, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. ANDREW BICKFORD Associate Professor of Anthropology, George Mason University, Virginia, USA. DAVID CLARKE Senior Lecturer in German, the University of Bath, UK. MARY FULBROOK Professor of German History, University College London, UK COURTNEY GLORE CRIMMINS Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA. CLAIRE HYLAND Doctoral Student, the University of Bath, UK. SARA JONES Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, the University of Bristol, UK. BARBARA KÖNCZÖL DAAD-Fachlektorin for Contemporary German History, University of Cambridge, UK. CHRISTIANE LAHUSEN Doctoral Student, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, Germany RENÉ LEHMANN Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. ANDREAS LUDWIG Director, the Dokumentationszentrum Alltagskultur der DDR in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany. JOSIE MCLELLAN Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, the University of Bristol, UK. RICHARD MILLINGTON Ph.D. Graduate, the University of Liverpool, UK ANNE-MARIE PAILHÈS Associate Professor of German, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France. HELMUT PEITSCH Professor of German at the University of Potsdam, Germany. JOANNE SAYNER Lecturer in Cultural Theory, Department of German Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. UTE WÖLFEL Lecturer in German, the University of Reading, UK. JENNY WÜSTENBERG Ph.D. Graduate in Political Science, the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. STEFAN ZAHLMANN Professor for the History and Theory of Media Cultures, the University of Vienna, Austria

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