Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-720-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 756 g

Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the “New Berlin” is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany’s largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bauer, Karin

Hosek, Jennifer Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Introduction

Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek

PART I: CONTESTING GENTRIFICATION: SUBCULTURE TO MAINSTREAM

Chapter 1. Cultural History of Post-Wall Berlin: From Utopian Longing to Nostalgia for Babylon

Katrina Sark

Chapter 2. Taking a Walk on the Wild Side: Berlin and Christiane F.’s Second Life

Susan Ingram

Chapter 3. Representations and Interpretations of “The New Berlin” in Contemporary German Comics

Lynn Marie Kutch



PART II: SPACES, MONUMENTS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF HISTORY

Chapter 4. Reconfiguring the Spaces of the “Creative Class” in Contemporary Berlin

Simon Ward

Chapter 5. Negotiating Cold War Legacies: The Discursive Ambiguity of Berlin’s Memory Sites  

Stefanie Eisenhuth and Scott H. Krause

Chapter 6. Branding the New Germany—The Brandenburg Gate and a New Kind of German Historical Amnesia

Sarah Pogoda and Rüdiger Traxler

Chapter 7. Disappearing History: Challenges of Imagining Berlin after 1989

Ayse N. Erek and Eszter Gantner

PART III: RE-IMAGINING INTEGRATION

Chapter 8. Governing through “Ethnic Entrepreneurship”

Baris Ülker

Chapter 9. Resisting Integration: Neukölln Artist Responses to Integration Politics

Johanna Schuster-Craig

Chapter 10. The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary Berlin

Hila Amit

Chapter 11. Berlin’s International Literature Festival: Globalizing the Bildungsbürger

Marike Janzen

PART IV: BERLIN MEMORYSCAPES OF THE PRESENT

Chapter 12. Transnational Cityscapes: Tracking Turkish-German Hi/Stories in Postwar Berlin

Christiane Steckenbiller

Chapter 13. Israeli Jews in the New Berlin: From Shoah Memories to Middle Eastern Encounters

Hadas Cohen and Dani Kranz

Chapter 14. Through the Eyes of Angels and Vampires: Berlin Ruins in Wings of Desire and We Are the Night

Peter Gölz

Chapter 15. The Uncanny City: Berlin in International Film

Andre Schütze

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bauer, Karin
Karin Bauer is Professor of German Studies at McGill University and former editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Her publications include Adorno’s Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner and Everybody Talks about the Weather: We Don’t, along with numerous articles on critical theory and contemporary German literature and culture.

Hosek, Jennifer Ruth
Jennifer Ruth Hosek is Associate Professor of German at Queen's University, affiliated with Film, Gender, and Cultural Studies. Her scholarly projects include the monograph Sun, Sex, and Socialism: Cuba in the German Imaginary, the documentary Rodando en La Habana: Bicycle Stories, articles on a range of topics, and the telecollaborative learning platform www.linguaelive.ca.

Karin Bauer is Professor of German Studies at McGill University and former editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Her publications include Adorno’s Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner and Everybody Talks about the Weather: We Don’t, along with numerous articles on critical theory and contemporary German literature and culture.