German Division as Shared Experience

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-242-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 616 g

Despite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East-West divides. German Division as Shared Experience considers everyday life across the two Germanies, using perspectives from history, literary and cultural studies, anthropology and art history to explore how interconnections as well as fractures between East and West Germany after 1945 were experienced, lived and felt. Through its novel approach to historical method, the volume points to new understandings of the place of narrative, form and lived sensibility in shaping Germans’ simultaneously shared and separate experiences of belonging during forty years of division from 1945 to 1990.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carter, Erica

Palmowski, Jan

Schreiter, Katrin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: German Division as Shared Experience

Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski and Katrin Schreiter

Chapter 1. Narrating the Everyday: Television, Memory and the Subjunctive in the GDR, 1969–89

Jan Palmowski

Chapter 2. Tension of Germanness in the Global South: German Immigrants in Namibia

Heidi Armbruster

Chapter 3. ‘Ich bin parteilich, subjektiv und emotional’: Eigensinn and the Narrative (Re)construction of Political Agency in Inge Viett’s Nie war ich furchtloser

Katharina Karcher

Chapter 4. Asymmetrical (Be)longing: Villagers, Spatial Practices and the German ‘Other’

Marcel Thomas

Chapter 5. Everyday Displacements in Cold War Berlin: Short Prose from East and West

Áine McMurtry

Chapter 6. DEFA’s ‘Home-made’ Experiment: Traces of GDR Reality and International Avant-garde Film in Jürgen Böttcher’s Transformations (1981)

Franziska Nössig

Chapter 7. Style Identities and Individualization in 1980s East and West Germany

Alissa Bellotti

Chapter 8. Cultivating the Past: The Schrebergarten as a Political Space in Postwar German Literature

Katrin Schreiter

Chapter 9. Painting in East Germany: An Elite Art for the Everyday (and Everyone)

April Eisman

Chapter 10. The Perceptual Fabric and Everyday Practices of Jazz and Pop in East and West Germany

Michael J. Schmidt

Chapter 11. Alles Geschmackssache? Shaping (Gustatory) Tastes in East and West Germany

Alice Weinreb

Conclusion

Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, and Katrin Schreiter

Über Autor(innen)

Schreiter, Katrin
Katrin Schreiter is Lecturer in German and European Studies at King’s College London. Her monograph Designing One Nation: The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany, 1949-1990 is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Palmowski, Jan
Jan Palmowski is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Postgraduate and Transnational Education at the University of Warwick. His most recent book is Inventing a Socialist Nation: Heimat and the Politics of Everyday Life in the GDR, 1945-90 (2009).

Carter, Erica
Erica Carter is Professor of German and Film at King’s College London. Her books include Béla Balázs:  Early Film Theory (2010), Dietrich’s Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film (2004) and How German is She? Postwar West German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman (1997).

Jan Palmowski is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Postgraduate and Transnational Education at the University of Warwick. His most recent book is Inventing a Socialist Nation: Heimat and the Politics of Everyday Life in the GDR, 1945-90 (2009).