Overview

More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East - and how the filling of previous absences and the absence of previous presence - creates the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and historical narration and preservation.

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Author:   Gwyneth Cliver ,  Carrie Smith-Prei
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   13
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.549kg
ISBN:  

9781782384908

ISBN 10:   1782384901
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   01 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Gwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-Prei PART I: GROUNDWORK Chapter 1. Preserving the Past Before and After the Wende: A Case Study of Quedlinburg Heike Alberts Chapter 2. No Man's Land: Fiction and Reality in Buddy Giovinazzo's Potsdamer Platz Christopher Jones PART II: PROJECTIONS Chapter 3. Cinematic Reflections of Germany's Postunification Woes: Architecture and Urban Space of Frankfurt (Oder) in Halbe Treppe, Lichter, and Kombat Sechzehn Sebastian Heiduschke Chapter 4. Reclaiming the Thuringian Tuscany: The Touristic Appeal of Bad Sulza and its Toskana Therme Erika Nelson Chapter 5. Berlin through the Lens: Space and (National) Identity in the Postunification Capital Susanna Miller, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Tamara Nadolny, Heidi Manicke, Flavia Zaka, Trevor Blakeney, and Jude Hirman Chapter 6. The Amputated City: The Voids of Hoyerswerda Gwyneth Cliver PART III: THEORIES Chapter 7. Sounding out Erfurt: Does the Song Remain the Same? Heiner Stahl Chapter 8. Restoration and Redemption: Defending Kultur and Heimat in Eisenach's Cityscape Jason James Chapter 9. The Bauwerk in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility: Historical Reconstruction, Pious Modernism, and Dresden's susse Krankheit Rob McFarland with Elizabeth Guthrie Afterword Rolf J. Goebel Notes on Contributors Index

Reviews

The essays in this collection resolutely de-center Berlin as a privileged subject of cultural studies, reconstructing the social histories, architectural rebuilding efforts, and other issues marking the transition from the former GDR to postunification in Dresden, Erfurt, Hoyerswerda, Frankfurt (Oder), and elsewhere ... Fascinating and insightful. * Rolf J. Goebel, from the Afterword I think the premise of the collection is a promising one, to shift focus from the Berlin-centric approaches to the relationship between the past and urban space, towards the areas of Eastern Germany that are frequently overlooked. - the book forms a useful complement to other studies of the cityscape in the post-unification period. * Simon Ward, University of Aberdeen

Author Information

Gwyneth Cliver is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She completed her PhD in 2008 from Washington University in St Louis and has also taught at Guilford College in North Carolina and Ball State University. Her research includes the integration of mathematics and mathematical philosophy in the writings of Robert Musil and Hermann Broch.

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