Cliver / Smith-Prei Bloom and Bust

Urban Landscapes in the East since German Reunification
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-491-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Web PDF

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cliver, Gwyneth

Smith-Prei, Carrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 “süße Krankheit”
Rob McFarland with Elizabeth Guthrie

Afterword
Rolf J. Goebel

Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Smith-Prei, Carrie

Carrie Smith-Prei is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Alberta and holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realism in the German Sixties (U of Toronto P, 2013), co-editor of a special issue on lesbian representations (Germanistik in Ireland, 2010), and is co-founder of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.

Cliver, Gwyneth

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.

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.