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Die in vielen Museen der DDR präsentierte „Geschichte der Urgesellschaft" war ein fester Bestandteil des nationalen Geschichtsbilds des „Arbeiter- und Bauernstaats" und unterstützte die historische Legitimierung der SED-Diktatur. Allerdings besaß die sozialistische Urgeschichtserzählung mit dem in der NS-Zeit propagierten Bild der „Germanischen Vorzeit" ein ideologisch hoch belastetes Erbe. Die Museen standen angesichts des politisch verordneten Antifaschismus vor der Aufgabe, in ihren Ausstellungen den narrativen Turn vom „germanischen" zum marxistischen Urgeschichtsbild zu meistern. Entlang eines umfangreichen Korpus an Ausstellungsfotos analysiert die Studie die museale Darstellung der Urgeschichte in der SBZ und DDR sowie die Diskurse, die zum Wandel oder zur Beständigkeit von Geschichtsbildern führten. In the German Democratic Republic (GDR), prehistory was part of the national narrative that served to legitimize the dictatorial regime of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). However, the socialist conception of prehistory came up against a heavily loaded ideological legacy in the wake of the notions of ‘German prehistory’ that had been espoused during the National Socialist period. Museums were tasked with mastering the politically prescribed narrative shift from an ethnic-nationalist conception of prehistory to a Marxist one. Using an extensive body of exhibition photos, this doctoral project analyses the depiction of prehistory in museums of the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR as well as discourses that led to the alteration or persistence of related concepts.
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Der »Mauerfall« brachte die Frage der »Wiedervereinigung« überraschend rasch zurück auf die Tagesordnung der internationalen Politik. Dies galt auch für die österreichische Diplomatie und Politik, wie die 180 in dieser Edition erstmals veröffentlichten Dokumente zeigen. Das Verhältnis des neutralen Landes zu beiden deutschen Staaten hatte sich von 1949 bis 1989/90 kontinuierlich entwickelt. Zur Bundesrepublik bestanden aufgrund des Außenhandels und der Westorientierung Österreichs weit engere und intensivere wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Beziehungen. Abwartend und weit weniger intensiv war das Verhältnis zum ostdeutschen Staat. Nichtsdestotrotz waren die Kontakte zur DDR nach Aufnahme diplomatischer Beziehungen 1972 von schrittweiser Normalisierung, wechselseitiger Besuchsdiplomatie und gut entwickelten Wirtschaftsbeziehungen gekennzeichnet, die allerdings hinter der Stärke von jenen mit der Bundesrepublik zurückblieben. Österreich verfolgte in dieser Zeit als kritischer Beobachter aufmerksam die deutsche-deutsche Entwicklung und analysierte ihre Folgen für Europa. Die deutsche Teilung schien mit dem Honecker-Besuch in Bonn 1987 verfestigt, mit der Anerkennung der DDR als scheinbar souveräner Staat schien der SED-Generalsekretär auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Macht angelangt und die deutsche Frage definitiv beantwortet. Trotz des von Michail Gorbatschow ausgelösten Wandels wirkte das ostdeutsche Regime stabil. Der Schein trog jedoch. Der revolutionäre Umbruch in der DDR ging 1989 schließlich so rasch vonstatten, dass sich die deutsche Einheit im Herbst des Folgejahres auch für das genau beobachtende Österreich teilweise schneller vollzog als es vorher noch zu erwarten war. Nichtsdestotrotz hatte Österreichs Mitwirken an der Massenflucht der Ostdeutschen via Ungarn im Spätsommer 1989 wesentlich zum Zusammenbruch des SED-Regimes beigetragen. Die »friedliche Revolution« wurde von der österreichischen Politik begrüßt, die Haltung zur deutschen Frage war jedoch ambivalent. Während Bundeskanzler Franz Vranitzky zunächst von einem Fortbestand der DDR ausging und Besuchskontakte pflegte, befürwortete Außenminister Alois Mock die deutsche Einheit von Anfang an. Je deutlicher sich die Vereinigung abzeichnete, desto einhelliger wurde die österreichische Unterstützung. Dies stand in direktem Zusammenhang mit dem 1989 in Brüssel gestellten Beitrittsgesuch zu den Europäischen Gemeinschaften, dass sich rasch im Schatten der der deutschen Frage wiederfand. Auf dem Weg zum gemeinschaftlichen Europa setzte Wien auf deutschen Beistand.
History --- Since 1955 --- Austria --- Germany --- Austria. --- Germany. --- Relations --- European History --- Contemporary History --- 20th Century --- the German Democratic Republic --- Foreign Policy
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There has been virtually no previous linguistic research on resistance in East Germany. This study uses functional discourse analysis to categorize and assess the special, non-explicit pronouncements of resistance that took place on the streets of East Germany. Such resistance kept within the rules of the communist regime through deconstructive word games. The book is intended for readers interested in linguistics and history.
Linguistics --- Discourse analysis --- Communication --- Education and state --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Study and teaching --- History. --- Discourse Linguistics. --- German Democratic Republic. --- Resistance.
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Politics and government --- FOREIGN RELATIONS. --- GERMANY, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF. --- GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. --- Germany (East) --- Germany --- Germany. --- Duitsland --- Geschiedenis --- Tijdschriften. --- #KVHA:Tijdschriften; Duits --- Periodicals --- Politics --- History of Germany and Austria --- Droit
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Radiology. --- Germany, East. --- Democratic Republic of Germany --- German Democratic Republic --- Germany, Democratic Republic of --- RADIOLOGY --- bibliography, Germany East --- Radiologic and Imaging Nursing --- bibliography, Germany East. --- Radiology --- Bibliography, germany east. --- Radiology [Medical ] --- Bibliography
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Competing representations of the former East German state in the German cultural memory.
Collective memory --- Popular culture --- Germany (East) --- In popular culture. --- In literature. --- In motion pictures. --- Historiography. --- Berlin Wall. --- East German state. --- German Democratic Republic. --- cultural icon. --- divided past. --- historiography. --- memorials. --- memory. --- museums. --- politics. --- representations. --- reunification.
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The cultural history of 20th-century Germany, more perhaps than that of any other European country, was decisively influenced by political forces and developments. This volume of essays focuses on the relationship between German politics and culture, which is most obvious in the case of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic, where the one-party control of all areas of life was extended to the arts; these were expected to conform to the ideals of the day. But the relationship between politics and the arts has not always been one purely of coercion, censorship, collusion, and opportunism. Many writers greeted the First World War with quite voluntary enthusiasm; others conjured up the National Socialist revolution in intense Expressionist images long before 1933. The GDR was heralded by writers returning from Nazi exile as the anti-fascist answer to the Third Reich. And in West Germany, politics did not dictate artistic norms, nor was it greeted with any great enthusiasm among intellectuals, but writers did tend to ally themselves with particular parties. To an extent, the pre-1990 literary establishment in the Federal Republic was dominated by a left-liberal consensus that German division was the just punishment for Auschwitz. United Germany began its existence with a fierce literary debate in 1990-92, with leading literary critics arguing that East and West German literature had basically shored up the political order in the two countries. Now a new literature was required, one that was free of ideology, intensely subjective and experimental in its aesthetic. In 1998, the author Martin Walser called for an end to the author's role as "conscience of the nation" and for the right to subjective experience. This is the first book to examine this crucial relationship between politics and culture in Germany. William Niven and James Jordan are readers in German at the University of Nottingham Trent.
German literature --- Politics and literature --- Politics and culture --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- History and criticism. --- History --- Political aspects --- Germany --- Intellectual life --- Culture. --- German Democratic Republic. --- Ideology. --- Literature. --- Politics. --- Subjectivity. --- Third Reich. --- Twentieth-Century Germany.
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Twenty-five years after the demise of the German Democratic Republic, there is perhaps more scholarship being produced on all aspects of that country than ever. This is true also in the field of literary studies, but especially in English-language literary scholarship there has been a strong imbalance toward a focus on the last three decades of GDR literature. The literature of the earlier GDR has mostly been dismissed or ignored by scholars, as the discontinuities between the early and late GDR have been emphasized over the considerable continuities. This book seeks to redress that state of affairs, examining the literature produced from the very beginnings of what became the GDR through the 1950s. In doing so it applies to GDR literature the insight gained by scholars over the past few decades that the immediate postwar period was more complex, more meaningful, and more rewarding of study than it was long deemed to be. Far from all being mere propaganda or rote socialist realism, the literature of the early GDR has much to tell us about the budding socialist state, even as it goes far in explaining the developments in the later GDR.
Stephen Brockmann is Professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University.
German literature --- History and criticism. --- Constructing Literature. --- East German Literature. --- GDR. --- German Democratic Republic. --- German Literature. --- Literary Criticism. --- Literary Scholarship. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature Analysis. --- Literature Development. --- Literature. --- Political Period.
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Die Lebensumstände der Frauen und Kinder deutscher Kriegsgefangener waren geprägt vom Status ihres Ehemannes und Vaters. Die politische Haltung gegenüber den Internierten beeinflusste maßgeblich den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit den Angehörigen der Kriegsgefangenen. Anhand eines Vergleichs ihrer jeweiligen Situation während des Nationalsozialismus, in der Bundesrepublik und der DDR zeichnet Ann-Kristin Kolwes nach, wie die Umbruchprozesse zwischen 1941 und 1956 das Leben der Angehörigen beeinflussten. Dabei verknüpft sie Alltags-, Geschlechter- und Sozialgeschichte miteinander und liefert wichtige Erkenntnisse über die späten Kriegs- und die Nachkriegsjahre.
Kriegsgefangene; Frau; Kind; Deutschland; Zweiter Weltkrieg; Nationalsozialismus; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Deutsche Demokratische Republik; Alltag; Geschlecht; Gesellschaft; Erinnerungskultur; Kulturgeschichte; Deutsche Geschichte; Zeitgeschichte; Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts; Geschichtswissenschaft; Woman; Child; Germany; Second World War; National Socialism; Federal Republic of Germany; German Democratic Republic; Everyday Life; Gender; Society; Memory Culture; Cultural History; German History; Contemporary History; History of the 20th Century; History; --- Child. --- Contemporary History. --- Cultural History. --- Everyday Life. --- Federal Republic of Germany. --- Gender. --- German Democratic Republic. --- German History. --- Germany. --- History of the 20th Century. --- History. --- Memory Culture. --- National Socialism. --- Second World War. --- Society.
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The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party," it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police apparatus in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence service. He inquires into the mechanisms of dictatorship and the day-to-day effects of surveillance and suspicion. Masterful and thorough at once, he takes the reader through t
Internal security --- Secret service --- Security, Internal --- Insurgency --- Subversive activities --- History. --- Germany (East). --- Germany (Democratic Republic, 1949- ). --- Stasi --- MfS --- Staatssicherheitsdienst der DDR --- Sûreté de l'Etat --- Service secret --- History --- Histoire --- GDR. --- German Democratic Republic. --- German history. --- Germany. --- cold war history. --- cold war. --- communism. --- communist state. --- east berlin. --- east germany. --- secret police. --- socialist state. --- stasi.
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