Memorializing the GDR : : Monuments and Memory after 1989 / / Anna Saunders.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Saunders, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (382 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations and Key Terms --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 Memory, Monuments and Memorialization --; Chapter 2 Socialist Icons From Heroes to Villains? --; Chapter 3 Soviet Special Camps Reassessing a Repressed Past --; Chapter 4 17 June 1953 Uprisings Remembering a Failed Revolution --; Chapter 5 The Berlin Wall Historical Document, Tourist Magnet or Urban Eyesore? --; Chapter 6 Remembering the ‘Peaceful Revolution’ and German Unity --; Conclusion Beyond the Palimpsest --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785336812; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785336812?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anna Saunders.

Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, political, and historical contexts. Emphasizing the interrelationship of built environment, memory and identity, it brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history, as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of identity.