German Division as Shared Experience

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday

Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, Katrin Schreiter (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

318 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-119-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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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

Erscheinungsdatum	23.08.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-80539-119-4 / 1805391194
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-119-7 / 9781805391197
Zustand	Neuware