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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"East German"”.
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Remembering East German Childhood In Post-Wende Life Narratives
<p>REMEMBERING EAST GERMAN CHILDHOOD IN </p> <p>POST-WENDE LIFE NARRATIVES</p> <p>by JULIANA MAMOU, May 2013</p> <p>This dissertation explores how East German childhood is remembered in four exemplary auto/biographical texts that appeared in the early years of the twenty-first century. In Jana …
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Mutterrecht to Mauerfall: Cassandra and Penthesilea in 1980s east German art
Two important mythological figures emerged in East German art in the 1980s: Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess, and Penthesilea, the Amazon warrior queen. Christa Wolf’s 1983 novel, Cassandra, exerted a profound influence on the pacifist movement and enhanced women’s gender consciousness during this …
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On unregulated markets and the freedom of media the transition of the East German press after 1989
… Western free press model. The focus lies on the German Democratic Republic (GDR) between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 until after German unification in October 1990. It is a story untold in English-language literature, and it is a largely ignored part in contemporary German media …
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Metamorphosis and fairy tale tropes in Christa Wolf’s Patterns of Childhood
<p>This study is a sociohistorical analysis of East German writer Christa Wolf’s use of fairy tale tropes in her novel Patterns of Childhood, first published in German in 1976 in East Germany as Kindheitsmuster. Wolf uses fairy tale tropes to explore themes that she could not write about openly …
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Kampen för erkännande : DDR:s utrikespolitik gentemot Sverige 1949–1972
Since the early 1950’s the foreign policy of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) towards Sweden and the other Western European states was dominated by a striving for diplomatic recognition. This thesis examines that striving through an analysis of the East German-Swedish relations from 1949 until …
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Kulturelle, historische und regionale Unterschiede im wiedervereinigten Deutschland: Angleichung der Produktivitätswerte mittels differenzierter Führungskompetenzen am Beispiel zweier KMU der Lebensmittelbranche
The differences of the reunited Germany with regard to cultural, historical and regional nature were examined under economic aspects and, associated with this, the possibilities for aligning productivity values by means of differentiated leadership competences. The initial thesis describes a lack …
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Hacks/Müller: Zur Selbstbestimmung der DDR-Dramatik in Bezug auf die literarische Tradition und sozialistische Gegenwart
… This dissertation joins a conversation in German literary studies about East German literature's role, identity, and characteristic features. The thesis discusses the phenomenon of autonomy of the dramatic compositions written by Peter Hacks and Heiner Müller in the 1960s and 1970s in the …
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Sports, Mass Mobilization, and the Everyday Culture of Socialism in East Germany
… explores how the communist government of East Germany used sports to build socialism. Sports had traditionally enjoyed widespread popularity in Germany, and communist leaders sought to instrumentalize this popularity towards socialist ends. They believed that sports could produce efficient …
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Comic Books and Culture in the German Democratic Republic, 1955-1990: Between Constructions of Power and Childhood
In 1955, the East German Socialist Unity Party issued the Regulations for the Protection of Youth as a means of controlling publications for children and young people coming across the relatively open German-German border. At the same time, the regime authorized the creation of socialist comics in …
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Socialist State Crime and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1961-2005
… to the societies, economies, and polities of East and West Germany. On a political, legal, cultural and symbolic level, strategies needed to be found to incorporate the divided – and potentially divisive – past into a forward-looking historical narrative. This study locates the ‘border guard …
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Culture from the slums: punk rock, authenticity and alternative culture in East and West Germany
… since the 1970s, this study helps to explain why Germany after decades of dictatorship became democratic and how rock’n’roll contributed to this transformation. Investigating how youths used music to build alternative communities and identities during the Cold War, this project details the often …
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The state of belonging: Gay and lesbian activism in the German Democratic Republic and beyond, 1949-1989
… November 9, 1989, thousands of gay and lesbian East Germans had formed a vibrant, publicly visible gay rights movement in their socialist homeland. I argue—quite in contrast to the existing historiography on the topic—that the movement was geographically diffuse and highly fragmented. Its …
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Global Iconic Events: How News Stories Travel Through Time, Space and Media
… from four distinct national contexts (West German, East German, Hungarian, and American) to examine two case studies. With the help of the central case study, the "fall of the Berlin Wall," I exhibit the successful social construction of a global iconic event. The second case study, the 1956 …
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The Politics of History and the "Prussia-Renaissance" in the German Democratic Republic, 1968-1987
… phenomenon of the ‘Prussia-Renaissance’ in the German Democratic Republic (the GDR) during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It explores the cultural and political reasons why the official histories of the communist East German state began during this period to recognise and even publicly …
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Public education spending in the German Länder: adjustment to demographic shocks, politics, and cost efficiency
… dissertation, I examine three major aspects of Germany's education system from an empirical public finance perspective. First, I analyse the effects of strong demographic shifts by considering how the East German Länder responded to the rather dramatic decline in the number of students in …
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Folk Fiction: Yiddish and the Negotiation of Literary Legacy in Germany after 1945
Following the Holocaust, when Eastern European Yiddish-language culture was all but destroyed and millions of Yiddish speakers were murdered, the language took on newsignificance in German culture. Whether it be as a symbol of proletarian solidarity in East German theater or as part of West German …
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Post-GDR memory--cultural discourses of loss and assertion in reunified Germany
… 1989 can be understood as a moment of loss for East Germans. While post-unification scholarship has addressed questions of GDR identity and generational memory in other post-1989 contexts, there is an absence of scholarly work that discusses loss across different Eastern German generations that …
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Alienated Social Reproduction: A study on the politics of neoliberal urban restructuring in Leipzig, East Germany
… on political polarization in Leipzig, East Germany, and demonstrates how in turn the local, politicized relations of tenants marked by solidarities, fragmentation and authoritarianism, impact urban restructuring. Uncovering the interrelation of housing privatization and financialization …
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The invention of the historic city : building the past in East Berlin, 1970-1990
… design. This is especially well illustrated in East Berlin, where a heterogeneous group of politicians, architects, and scholars called for an urban environment that provides the individual experience of historicity. Their ideas were most prominently infused in a series of showcase projects …
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