Divided subjects, invisible borders : re-unified Germany after 1989

Why do those born in eastern Germany today still identify with aspects of the GDR? What do Germany's memorials, films, nostalgias, memory debates and national commemorations tell us about the lives of Germans today? 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of German re-unification. Yet Germany remains divided; the unified Germany of the official representations hides its informal division, a screen that can be detected in fraught debates and divided German lives since 1989. 'Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders' returns to the Nazi period and Cold War to argue that fantasies about whom the "real Germans" are have persisted down the decades to today, while official approaches to re-unification echoed and addressed those of post-war justice. Through examples from museums, film, commemoration, visual art, literature and political debate, it reveals how eastern Germany is represented, remembered and experienced in ways shaped by dominant ideas from the west.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9781783482412 ; 1783482419 ; 9781783482429 ; 1783482427
• Maße: 23 cm
• Umfang: viii, 318 Seiten
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Illustrationen ; Includes bibliographical references and index.. - Introduction: just another country in Europe? -- Part I. Another new beginning -- End of story: Nachträglichkeit and the German past -- The German ideology: identity, fantasy, affect -- Part II. The past that outlived itself: nostalgia and ambivalence -- Really-existing nostalgia: transitions, fetishes and objects -- Disintegration and ambivalence: Berlin and Leipzig -- Part III. The lives of Ossis on film -- The lives of others: imitations of life -- Good bye Lenin!: too soon, too late -- Material: something is left over -- Part IV. Remembering, commemorating -- In the gallery: aesthetics and memory contests -- In the street: commemoration and interpassivity -- Conclusion: another new ending.

Klassifikation und Themen

• Schlagwort: Geschichte 1990-2015 ; Wiedervereinigung ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kollektives Gedächtnis

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): London
• (wer): Rowman & Littlefield international
• (wann): [2015]
• Urheber: Gook, Ben

Weitere Informationen

• Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://d-nb.info/1097784339/04
• Rechteinformation: Bei diesem Objekt liegt nur das Inhaltsverzeichnis digital vor. Der Zugriff darauf ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 11.06.2025, 14:02 MESZ