At the Edge of the Wall

Public and Private Spheres in Divided Berlin
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78920-874-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Studies in contemporary European history

Located in the geographical center of Berlin, the neighboring boroughs of Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg shared a history and identity until their fortunes diverged dramatically following the construction of the Berlin Wall, which placed them within opposing political systems. This revealing account of the two municipal districts before, during and after the Cold War takes a microhistorical approach to investigate the broader historical trajectories of East and West Berlin, with particular attention to housing, religion, and leisure. Merged in 2001, they now comprise a single neighborhood that bears the traces of these complex histories and serves as an illuminating case study of urban renewal, gentrification, and other social processes that continue to reshape Berlin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hochmuth, Hanno

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Map of Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg

Introduction

Chapter 1. Historical Foundations

Part I: Housing

Chapter 2. Housing as a Constitutive Field of the Public and Private Spheres

Chapter 3. The Long “Gestation Period” of Tenement Buildings: Sorauer Strasse

Chapter 4. The Public and Private Sphere in Urban Transformation: Strasse der Pariser Kommune

Chapter 5. Kreuzberg Counter-Public Spheres

Chapter 6. Neighborhood Appropriation in Friedrichshain

Interim Conclusion I

Part II: The Church

Chapter 7. The Church as a Constitutive Field of the Public and Private Spheres

Chapter 8. Church and the Neighborhood Public Sphere in the Kreuzberg

Chapter 9. The Church as a Surrogate Public Sphere in Friedrichshain

Interim Conclusion II

Part III: Entertainment

Chapter 10. Entertainment as a Constitutive Field of the Public and Private Spheres

Chapter 11. Neighborhood Entertainment: Fruchtstrasse Taverns

Chapter 12. The Diversification of Kreuzberg Bar Culture

Chapter 13. Festival Culture Between East and West

Interim Conclusion III

Chapter 14. Perspectives: Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg in Transformation since 1989–90

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hochmuth, Hanno
Hanno Hochmuth is a research fellow at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam (ZZF) and teaches at the Free University of Berlin. He is editor, with Paul Nolte, of Stadtgeschichte als Zeitgeschichte: Berlin im 20. Jahrhundert (Urban History as Contemporary History: Berlin in the Twentieth Century) published in 2019 by Wallstein, and with Martin Sabrow and Tilmann Siebeneichner, of Weimars Wirkung. Das Nachleben der ersten deutschen Republik (Weimar’s Legacy. The Afterlife of the First German Republic), published in 2020 by Wallstein.