Memorializing the GDR : : monuments and memory after 1989 / / Anna Saunders.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (382 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Memory debates and the built environment since unification
- 'Working through' the GDR past
- A shifting memorial culture
- Memory, monuments and memorialization
- Notions of, and problems with, collective forms of memory
- Monuments, memorials and 'memory markers'
- Socialist icons: from heroes to villains?
- The role of monuments in the GDR
- Transition: October 1989 to October 1990
- Eastern Berlin I: from unification to Lenin's fall
- Eastern Berlin II: from the commission's recommendations to
- Thalmann's survival
- Demolition debates beyond Berlin: Chemnitz's 'nischel'
- Modification: a modern makeover for Halle's flag monument
- Relocation: finding a new home for Leipzig's Karl Marx relief
- Conclusion: the ever-present narrative of 1989
- Soviet special camps: reassessing a repressed past
- Special camps and interrogation centres
- Commemoration without monumentalization: representing silenced memories at Buchenwald
- Emotive symbolism and reconciliation at Funfeichen
- Breaking the silence: historical revision in Greifswald
- A monument without answers? Haftstatte Prenzlauer Allee, Berlin
- Conclusion: Revoking silence
- 17 June 1953 uprisings: remembering a failed revolution
- Conflicting interpretations in Berlin: Katharina Karrenberg, Wolfgang Ruppel and beyond
- Remembering Hennigsdorf's steelworkers
- Tank tracks in Leipzig
- Tank tracks in Dresden
- Conclusion: diverse remembrance
- The Berlin Wall: historical document, tourist magnet or urban eyesore?
- The early post-Wende years: from commodification to preservation
- Ubergange: Remembering border crossings and transitions
- Bernauer Strasse wall memorial (Part I): peripheral remembrance?
- Victimhood and visibility I: Remembering child vicitms in Treptow
- Victimhood and visibility II: White crosses in duplicate
- Victimhood and visibility III: The Freedom Memorial, Checkpoint Charlie
- Towards decentralised remembrance: the gesamtkonzept and Bernauer Strasse (Part II)
- Conclusion: Shifting remembrance
- Remembering the 'peaceful revolution' and German unity
- Building national memory? Berlin's freedom and unity monument
- Remembering the Leipzig demonstrations: the Nikolaikirchhof and beyond
- Schwerin's controversial remembrance of the round table
- Swords into ploughshares: Dessau's peace bell
- Transforming the fortunes of Magdeburg? the development of a citizens' monument
- A truly democratic project? Plauen's Wende monument
- Conclusion: The concrete legacy of the peaceful revolution
- Conclusion: Beyond the palimpsest
- What remains?
- Dominant narratives
- Dialogic remembrance and entangled memories.