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What explains the rise of radical right-wing parties in post-socialist Europe? Previous research attributes this phenomenon to the legacies of socialism, emphasizing the macro-socialization processes in education and civil society. This study introduces a novel perspective by highlighting the significance of limited interaction with the non-socialist states, proposing that such interactions could have facilitated micro-socialization processes that counteracted the regime’s indoctrination efforts. By analyzing the effect of cross-border traffic agreements between East and West Germany, it is found that areas with increased Western contact during the socialist era exhibit significantly less support for the radical right thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Moreover, employing entropy balancing to adjust for socioeconomic differences in the totalitarian period, this research demonstrates that individuals from these areas are half as likely to support the Alternative for Germany today, compared to a reweighted control group. This research offers a novel mechanism detailing how Western interactions could challenge entrenched socialist legacies, contributing significantly to the discourse on political socialization and the dynamics of political culture in post-socialist Europe.

The article presents how the Polish novel Popi.ł i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) by Jerzy Andrzejewski was received by censors in the German Democratic Republic. The novel was first published in East Germany in the 1960s, although attempts to release it were made as early as sixteen years earlier. The author of the article recalls the reviews by German censors who refused to give consent to the novel’s publication on the East German market and whose decisions were affected not by the content of the book alone, but also by the social and political situation in both the Polish People’s Republic and the German Democratic Republic., The article presents how the Polish novel Popi.ł i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) by Jerzy Andrzejewski was received by censors in the German Democratic Republic. The novel was first published in East Germany in the 1960s, although attempts to release it were made as early as sixteen years earlier. The author of the article recalls the reviews by German censors who refused to give consent to the novel’s publication on the East German market and whose decisions were affected not by the content of the book alone, but also by the social and political situation in both the Polish People’s Republic and the German Democratic Republic.

This article examines how the German radical-right populist party the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland) and its politicians have engaged with the public memory of the East German past via Twitter and how this has impacted the use of social media as a tool of political commemoration in Germany. The article analyses the mnemonic wars over ‘anniversary tweets’ related to four events: the East German Uprising (1953); the construction (1961) and fall (1989) of the Berlin Wall; and German reunification (1990). The article surveys when and how Twitter became a platform for these events’ political commemoration and the role of the Alternative für Deutschland therein. It also outlines the mnemonic discourses that the Alternative für Deutschland has deployed on Twitter around these events’ anniversaries and explores the sorts of digital contestation and transnationalization evident at these times.

This article examines how the German radical-right populist party the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland) and its politicians have engaged with the public memory of the East German past via Twitter and how this has impacted the use of social media as a tool of political commemoration in Germany. The article analyses the mnemonic wars over ‘anniversary tweets’ related to four events: the East German Uprising (1953); the construction (1961) and fall (1989) of the Berlin Wall; and German reunification (1990). The article surveys when and how Twitter became a platform for these events’ political commemoration and the role of the Alternative für Deutschland therein. It also outlines the mnemonic discourses that the Alternative für Deutschland has deployed on Twitter around these events’ anniversaries and explores the sorts of digital contestation and transnationalization evident at these times.

This article examines how the German radical-right populist party the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland) and its politicians have engaged with the public memory of the East German past via Twitter and how this has impacted the use of social media as a tool of political commemoration in Germany. The article analyses the mnemonic wars over ‘anniversary tweets’ related to four events: the East German Uprising (1953); the construction (1961) and fall (1989) of the Berlin Wall; and German reunification (1990). The article surveys when and how Twitter became a platform for these events’ political commemoration and the role of the Alternative für Deutschland therein. It also outlines the mnemonic discourses that the Alternative für Deutschland has deployed on Twitter around these events’ anniversaries and explores the sorts of digital contestation and transnationalization evident at these times.

This article is the introduction to the book "The Cold War through music-making in the GDR: political goals, aesthetic paradoxes, and the case of neutral Sweden". This introduction provides an insight into the political and musical situation in the GDR; it discusses terms that are fundamental to the entire book, such as cultural diplomacy, romanticism, classicism, cultural heritage, socialist realism and formalism, and it gives a short introduction to the political and musical relations between the GDR and Sweden. The individual contributions to the book are also briefly introduced.

This article is the introduction to the book "The Cold War through music-making in the GDR: political goals, aesthetic paradoxes, and the case of neutral Sweden". This introduction provides an insight into the political and musical situation in the GDR; it discusses terms that are fundamental to the entire book, such as cultural diplomacy, romanticism, classicism, cultural heritage, socialist realism and formalism, and it gives a short introduction to the political and musical relations between the GDR and Sweden. The individual contributions to the book are also briefly introduced.

This article is the introduction to the book "The Cold War through music-making in the GDR: political goals, aesthetic paradoxes, and the case of neutral Sweden". This introduction provides an insight into the political and musical situation in the GDR; it discusses terms that are fundamental to the entire book, such as cultural diplomacy, romanticism, classicism, cultural heritage, socialist realism and formalism, and it gives a short introduction to the political and musical relations between the GDR and Sweden. The individual contributions to the book are also briefly introduced.

This article is the introduction to the book "The Cold War through music-making in the GDR: political goals, aesthetic paradoxes, and the case of neutral Sweden". This introduction provides an insight into the political and musical situation in the GDR; it discusses terms that are fundamental to the entire book, such as cultural diplomacy, romanticism, classicism, cultural heritage, socialist realism and formalism, and it gives a short introduction to the political and musical relations between the GDR and Sweden. The individual contributions to the book are also briefly introduced.

In this book, researchers from different disciplines use the case of the German Democratic Republic to show how music was employed to further the state's cultural and political policies, as well as influence its international relations, culture, and politics. The study spans the Cold War, including the GDR's creation, the great-power struggle for control, the importance of returning war refugees for the construction of the GDR, the building of the 1961 wall, the central intelligence activities and the state's struggle for diplomatic recognition. Contributors examine the function and position of music within East German cultural politics, focusing on the relationship between music and authoritarian state politicies. While most of the contributions emphasize classical music, referred to in German as ernste Musik, "serious music", some of them also touch on popular music and jazz. Music also constituted a major factor in the GDR's international outreach, particularly to "neutral" countries as Sweden (a central focus of the book). The volume is editied by Petra Garberding, associate professor in European Ethnology at Södertörn University, and Henrik Rosengren, associate professor in History at Lund University. Contributors are Lars Klingberg, Andreas Lueken, Meredith Nicoll, Matthias Tischer and Stefan Weiss.

In this book, researchers from different disciplines use the case of the German Democratic Republic to show how music was employed to further the state's cultural and political policies, as well as influence its international relations, culture, and politics. The study spans the Cold War, including the GDR's creation, the great-power struggle for control, the importance of returning war refugees for the construction of the GDR, the building of the 1961 wall, the central intelligence activities and the state's struggle for diplomatic recognition. Contributors examine the function and position of music within East German cultural politics, focusing on the relationship between music and authoritarian state politicies. While most of the contributions emphasize classical music, referred to in German as ernste Musik, "serious music", some of them also touch on popular music and jazz. Music also constituted a major factor in the GDR's international outreach, particularly to "neutral" countries as Sweden (a central focus of the book). The volume is editied by Petra Garberding, associate professor in European Ethnology at Södertörn University, and Henrik Rosengren, associate professor in History at Lund University. Contributors are Lars Klingberg, Andreas Lueken, Meredith Nicoll, Matthias Tischer and Stefan Weiss.

In this book, researchers from different disciplines use the case of the German Democratic Republic to show how music was employed to further the state's cultural and political policies, as well as influence its international relations, culture, and politics. The study spans the Cold War, including the GDR's creation, the great-power struggle for control, the importance of returning war refugees for the construction of the GDR, the building of the 1961 wall, the central intelligence activities and the state's struggle for diplomatic recognition. Contributors examine the function and position of music within East German cultural politics, focusing on the relationship between music and authoritarian state politicies. While most of the contributions emphasize classical music, referred to in German as ernste Musik, "serious music", some of them also touch on popular music and jazz. Music also constituted a major factor in the GDR's international outreach, particularly to "neutral" countries as Sweden (a central focus of the book). The volume is editied by Petra Garberding, associate professor in European Ethnology at Södertörn University, and Henrik Rosengren, associate professor in History at Lund University. Contributors are Lars Klingberg, Andreas Lueken, Meredith Nicoll, Matthias Tischer and Stefan Weiss.

The following paper examines the production of memory in Berlin Global, an exhibition housed at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, through employing methods of discourse and narrative analysis. The analysis aims to deconstruct memories of the German Democratic Republic present in the exhibition and how these are integrated into greater national and international historical narratives through the use of the exhibition design, concept and the objects present there. To produce a sufficient analysis concepts such as the discursive object as theorized by Mieke Bal, memory, as well as nostalgia, ostalgia and hegemonic narratives need to be understood. The paper comes to the conclusion that although reinforcing certain narratives and, in consequence, re-producing certain memories of the GDR, Berlin Global offers an innovative way of integrating the divided past of Germany into a common national and international context. Through the juxtaposition of objects, East and West Germany remain divided but directly compared in several socio-cultural aspects that have previously often been disregarded or sentimentalized.

This article examines how the German radical-right populist party the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland) and its politicians have engaged with the public memory of the East German past via Twitter and how this has impacted the use of social media as a tool of political commemoration in Germany. The article analyses the mnemonic wars over ‘anniversary tweets’ related to four events: the East German Uprising (1953); the construction (1961) and fall (1989) of the Berlin Wall; and German reunification (1990). The article surveys when and how Twitter became a platform for these events’ political commemoration and the role of the Alternative für Deutschland therein. It also outlines the mnemonic discourses that the Alternative für Deutschland has deployed on Twitter around these events’ anniversaries and explores the sorts of digital contestation and transnationalization evident at these times.

In this book, researchers from different disciplines use the case of the German Democratic Republic to show how music was employed to further the state's cultural and political policies, as well as influence its international relations, culture, and politics. The study spans the Cold War, including the GDR's creation, the great-power struggle for control, the importance of returning war refugees for the construction of the GDR, the building of the 1961 wall, the central intelligence activities and the state's struggle for diplomatic recognition. Contributors examine the function and position of music within East German cultural politics, focusing on the relationship between music and authoritarian state politicies. While most of the contributions emphasize classical music, referred to in German as ernste Musik, "serious music", some of them also touch on popular music and jazz. Music also constituted a major factor in the GDR's international outreach, particularly to "neutral" countries as Sweden (a central focus of the book). The volume is editied by Petra Garberding, associate professor in European Ethnology at Södertörn University, and Henrik Rosengren, associate professor in History at Lund University. Contributors are Lars Klingberg, Andreas Lueken, Meredith Nicoll, Matthias Tischer and Stefan Weiss.

This article examines the international reception of the Latin American Nueva Canción ejemplified with the Chilean Nueva Canción focusing on the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Using the concept of ‘authenticity’, the reception of the musical culture of the “Other” is analysed, which had an impact on the construction of a national-patriotic and international-solidarian identity. Based on the analysis of GDR cultural policy, a typology is developed based on the concept of ‘authenticity’, and primary and secondary sources from the audience and from the organisation of the Festival des politischen Liedes (Festival of Political Songs) in Berlin, where many South American artists performed between 1970 and 1990, are evaluated. It also considers how South America and its culture were perceived, and how this perception may have served to construct an identity in East Germany., Este artículo examina la recepción internacional de la "Nueva Canción Latinoamericana" con un foco en la República Democrática Alemana. Mediante el concepto de la 'autenticidad' se analiza la recepción de una cultura musical del Otro que tuvo impacto en la construcción de una identidad nacional-patriótica e internacional-solidaria en la Alemania Oriental. Para lograr tal objetivo se lleva a cabo una introducción a la política cultural de aquel estado, se da una definición mencionando aspectos analíticos de 'autenticidad' y se evalúan fuentes primarias y secundarias provenientes del público y de la organización del "Festival des politischen Liedes" en Berlín, en el cual entre los años 70 hasta los 90 actuaron muchos artistas sudamericanos de la época. Así se ofrece un panorama de cómo se veía Sudamérica y su cultura y cómo eso podía servir para realizar una construcción de identidad en la Alemania Oriental.

This article examines how the German radical-right populist party the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland) and its politicians have engaged with the public memory of the East German past via Twitter and how this has impacted the use of social media as a tool of political commemoration in Germany. The article analyses the mnemonic wars over ‘anniversary tweets’ related to four events: the East German Uprising (1953); the construction (1961) and fall (1989) of the Berlin Wall; and German reunification (1990). The article surveys when and how Twitter became a platform for these events’ political commemoration and the role of the Alternative für Deutschland therein. It also outlines the mnemonic discourses that the Alternative für Deutschland has deployed on Twitter around these events’ anniversaries and explores the sorts of digital contestation and transnationalization evident at these times.

Die US-amerikanische Kulturanthropologin Christina Schwenkel legt mit Building socialism eine quellengesättigte ethnografische Studie über Zerstörung, Wiederaufbau und Nutzungsperspektiven der vietnamesischen Stadt Vinh vor. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf den agencies der Beteiligten. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung steht ein Quartier, dessen Wohnblocks mit materieller und ideeller Unterstützung der DDR errichtet wurden. Nicht nur sind die methodischen Zugänge der Untersuchung vielversprechend und gewinnbringend – angesichts des drohenden Stadtumbaus, der für die Bewohner:innen des Quartiers Quang Trung Abriss und Verdrängung bedeuten würde, gewinnt ihre städtebauhistorische Ethnografie auch an politischer Relevanz.

Diese Analyse von Martin Jankowskis Roman Rabet oder Das Verschwinden einer Himmelsrichtung untersucht die Konstruktion einer literarischen Fiktion, die durch die dokumentarische Schilderung der friedlichen Revolution in Leipzig 1989 einen korrigierenden Beitrag zum Erinnerungsdiskurs leistet. Im Aufsatz werden Themen beschrieben, die durch das Fiktive, Metaphorische und Dialogische der Romanerzählung für die Gegenwart relevant gemacht werden. Dazu wird die Anwendung von literarischen Stilmitteln wie Metaphern, Ironie, Verschweigen, intertextuellen Referenzen und Transformationen analysiert. Neben der Interpretation des fiktionalen Erzählens, werden im Roman hervorgehobene und angedeutete Vorkommnisse untersucht, die noch heute sowohl auf gesellschaftliche Prozesse als auch auf private Beziehungen einwirken., This analysis of Martin Jankowski’s Rabet oder Das Verschwinden einer Himmelsrichtung explores the construction of a literary fiction, which consists of a documentary and corrective contribution to the remembrance discourse of the Peaceful Revolution in the German Democratic Republic in 1989. Along with a description of themes which gain relevance through the fictional, metaphorical and dialogical features of the narration, the study undertakes an analysis of stylistic devises such as metaphors, irony, concealment, intertextual references and transformations. Besides an interpretation of the literary narration, the study examines the novel’s emphasis on the influence of past events on contemporary society and private relationships.

Diese Analyse von Martin Jankowskis Roman Rabet oder Das Verschwinden einer Himmelsrichtung untersucht die Konstruktion einer literarischen Fiktion, die durch die dokumentarische Schilderung der friedlichen Revolution in Leipzig 1989 einen korrigierenden Beitrag zum Erinnerungsdiskurs leistet. Im Aufsatz werden Themen beschrieben, die durch das Fiktive, Metaphorische und Dialogische der Romanerzählung für die Gegenwart relevant gemacht werden. Dazu wird die Anwendung von literarischen Stilmitteln wie Metaphern, Ironie, Verschweigen, intertextuellen Referenzen und Transformationen analysiert. Neben der Interpretation des fiktionalen Erzählens, werden im Roman hervorgehobene und angedeutete Vorkommnisse untersucht, die noch heute sowohl auf gesellschaftliche Prozesse als auch auf private Beziehungen einwirken., This analysis of Martin Jankowski’s Rabet oder Das Verschwinden einer Himmelsrichtung explores the construction of a literary fiction, which consists of a documentary and corrective contribution to the remembrance discourse of the Peaceful Revolution in the German Democratic Republic in 1989. Along with a description of themes which gain relevance through the fictional, metaphorical and dialogical features of the narration, the study undertakes an analysis of stylistic devises such as metaphors, irony, concealment, intertextual references and transformations. Besides an interpretation of the literary narration, the study examines the novel’s emphasis on the influence of past events on contemporary society and private relationships.

Die US-amerikanische Kulturanthropologin Christina Schwenkel legt mit Building socialism eine quellengesättigte ethnografische Studie über Zerstörung, Wiederaufbau und Nutzungsperspektiven der vietnamesischen Stadt Vinh vor. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf den agencies der Beteiligten. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung steht ein Quartier, dessen Wohnblocks mit materieller und ideeller Unterstützung der DDR errichtet wurden. Nicht nur sind die methodischen Zugänge der Untersuchung vielversprechend und gewinnbringend – angesichts des drohenden Stadtumbaus, der für die Bewohner:innen des Quartiers Quang Trung Abriss und Verdrängung bedeuten würde, gewinnt ihre städtebauhistorische Ethnografie auch an politischer Relevanz.

This article considers the concerted attempt of the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union to influence Scandinavian tourists during Baltic Sea Week in pursuit of their foreign policy goals. The author begins by discussing the implications of ‘public diplomacy’ within the context of East European socialism. Before examining how German and Soviet public diplomacy strategies intertwined, the paper outlines the methods of socialist public diplomacy and the reactions of the target audience, as well as certain aspects of Eigen-Sinn brought by the western guests. To explore these connections, the paper draws primarily on the records of the Danish working-class movement, the organizing committees and intelligence reports by the East German Ministry for State Security. While foreign tourism in the Soviet Union typically entailed both economic and political interests, the GDR even subsidised foreign tourists and designed package tours to serve almost exclusively political purposes. Focusing on Scandinavian guests, the paper discusses their reaction to the politically loaded tourism experience. Whereas some tourists readily spread the message that the organizers wanted to send, others did not hesitate to criticise what they saw or insisted on their own apolitical agendas. In addition, differing concepts of international understanding reflected the growing distance between Western leftist visitors and Eastern European communist parties. While there were hardly any measurable effects in the political realm, Baltic Sea Week seems to have produced unintended cultural effects resulting from its omnipresent friendship rhetoric and peace message., Анализируется сотрудничество Германской Демократической Республики и Советского Союза в целях оказания идеологического влияния на скандинавских туристов в рамках Недели Балтийского моря. Автор обращается к термину «публичная дипломатия» и анализирует его специфику при изучении социализма в странах Восточной Европы. Исследуются методы социалистической публичной дипломатии, а также реакция ее целевых аудиторий, включая некоторые аспекты «своемыслия» (Eigensinn), которые были характерны для западных гостей «Недели». Источниковую базу составили документы датского рабочего движения, а также органов Министерства государственной безопасности ГДР. Отмечая, что иностранный туризм в условиях «реального социализма», как правило, был нацелен на реализацию не только политических, но и экономических интересов, автор доказывает, что в случае Недели Балтийского моря ГДР разрабатывала для иностранных туристов специальную программу пребывания, носившую идеологизированный характер. В центре исследовательского интереса находится реакция скандинавских гостей на подобный вид туризма. Автор доказывает, что некоторые туристы из скандинавских стран после возвращения на родину действительно транслировали идеологические послания организаторов мероприятия, другие не останавливались перед критикой того, что видели, третьи оставались равнодушными к политической пропаганде. Документы показывают, что посещавшие социалистические страны левые общественные деятели Запада не воспринимали пропаганду коммунистических партий государств Восточной Европы. Несмотря на отсутствие явно ощутимых политических последствий, Неделя Балтийского моря имела серьезный культурный эффект.

This thesis analyzes the experiences constituting the protagonists’ adolescence in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as portrayed in Thomas Brussig’s book Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee, Leander Haußmann’s film Sonnenallee, and Wolfgang Becker’s film Good Bye, Lenin!. These narratives challenge assumptions that the phenomenon Ostalgie indicates a desire to return to the actual conditions of life in the former East. Using Svetlana Boym’s work on post-communist nostalgia as a theoretical framework, I argue that the representations of life in the East as presented in these texts are the protagonists’ reinterpretations of the past. The protagonists develop nostalgia for their youth only after the country’s dissolution. This alludes to actual difficulties faced by East Germans following Reunification, including the lack of acknowledgement towards the East’s socialist values, as well as the perception that the Eastern experience differed greatly from that of the West.

In 1990, Germany once again became a reunited country after the collapse of the socialistic German Democratic Republic [GDR]. Although most of the East Germans were positive about the reunification, the consequences of their transformation into the West German system came as a shock to many. The current study examines what successful and unsuccessful socialization processes look like, how identities are constructed, and why work, family, and free-time activities are important. More specifically, the study focuses on what these elements looked like in the GDR. Research shows that many East Germans had troubles adjusting to the new type of society after the reunification. Together, the results of this study demonstrate that there are still significant differences on several factors between East and West Germans today. Discrepancies continue to exist in integration and work, with the unemployment rate in the East of Germany still being higher than in the West. In terms of identity construction, even after 20 years since the reunification (in 2009) over 50% of the East Germans still identified themselves as “East Germans” rather than “Germans”. Values also differ, with East Germans tending to value social security more than West Germans and maintaining higher expectations for the involvement of the government. These differences can be traced back to socialistic socialization processes in East Germans and shows how the GDR continues to affect the identities and integration of East Germans.

The article focusses on the International Recognition that the Popular Unity government made to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1971, deepening on how both States approached, first with simple commercial relations, to then advance to diplomatic ties. The position of Chile within the international context of Cold War, and the national political panorama is analyzed. The research is based on an exhaustive review of unpublished sources obtained from the Historical Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Resumen:El artículo aborda el Reconocimiento Internacional que el gobierno de la Unidad Popular realizó a la República Democrática Alemana (RDA) en 1971, centrándose en cómo ambos Estados se acercaron, primero con simples relaciones comerciales, para luego avanzar a vínculos diplomáticas. Se analiza la posición de Chile dentro del contexto internacional de Guerra Fría, y el panorama político nacional. La investigación se basa en una exhaustiva revisión de fuentes inéditas obtenidas del Archivo Histórico del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile (AGHMINREL).

The article focusses on the International Recognition that the Popular Unity government made to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1971, deepening on how both States approached, first with simple commercial relations, to then advance to diplomatic ties. The position of Chile within the international context of Cold War, and the national political panorama is analyzed. The research is based on an exhaustive review of unpublished sources obtained from the Historical Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Resumen:El artículo aborda el Reconocimiento Internacional que el gobierno de la Unidad Popular realizó a la República Democrática Alemana (RDA) en 1971, centrándose en cómo ambos Estados se acercaron, primero con simples relaciones comerciales, para luego avanzar a vínculos diplomáticas. Se analiza la posición de Chile dentro del contexto internacional de Guerra Fría, y el panorama político nacional. La investigación se basa en una exhaustiva revisión de fuentes inéditas obtenidas del Archivo Histórico del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile (AGHMINREL).

In 1990, Germany once again became a reunited country after the collapse of the socialistic German Democratic Republic [GDR]. Although most of the East Germans were positive about the reunification, the consequences of their transformation into the West German system came as a shock to many. The current study examines what successful and unsuccessful socialization processes look like, how identities are constructed, and why work, family, and free-time activities are important. More specifically, the study focuses on what these elements looked like in the GDR. Research shows that many East Germans had troubles adjusting to the new type of society after the reunification. Together, the results of this study demonstrate that there are still significant differences on several factors between East and West Germans today. Discrepancies continue to exist in integration and work, with the unemployment rate in the East of Germany still being higher than in the West. In terms of identity construction, even after 20 years since the reunification (in 2009) over 50% of the East Germans still identified themselves as “East Germans” rather than “Germans”. Values also differ, with East Germans tending to value social security more than West Germans and maintaining higher expectations for the involvement of the government. These differences can be traced back to socialistic socialization processes in East Germans and shows how the GDR continues to affect the identities and integration of East Germans.

Support of a soccer club has become a cultural cornerstone for a significant portion of European society, yet a major portion of the German population has been denied this opportunity to root for a home team or even a local player. The cultural significance of soccer in the region may also have helped fuel societal divisions that extend beyond the boundaries of the soccer pitch, such that the absence of representation may have played at least a small role in the unhappiness with the current political and cultural environment in the former GDR. If those in the East feel that their identity was compromised after unification, and it seems likely that on the soccer pitch it was, it may have played some part in the return of identity politics and the populist nationalist sentiments there. As the security situation in Europe today continues to become more concerning, the lessons of 1789, 1848, and 1932 warrant the resolution of any issue that could even be loosely connected to the explosion of nationalism—and other divisive particularisms—in the region., http://archive.org/details/anationoffsidean1094560433, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy, Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

The case of early German-Israeli relations offers unique insight into the dynamics of the German Cold War. As this article shows, the two Germanys were ideologically and geopolitically antithetical, but vis-a-vis the question of relations with Israel East and West German representatives faced a situation that was uniquely related to the German past and to the German Cold War competition.

Art and cultural historians have long characterized the relationship between East Germany’s experimental artists and its state bureaucrats as at best one of division, opposition, and hostility. In this view, artists are either victims or pawns of the state. In “Infiltration and Excess: Experimental Art and the East German State, 1980 – 1989” I expand this framework to reveal how experimental culture actually engaged with the state and exposed and critiqued its core disjunctions. I focus on artists who used body-based practices, like performance, film, and photography, to create new vocabularies for representation, as well as their uses of reproducible media in the creation and circulation of their work. By the Cold War’s final decade, the GDR government’s inability to produce a collective and coherent public significantly frayed its power. Thus, I argue that experimental practice was not only an antidote for, but also a diagnosis of a weakening state: a foil and a mirror to official culture. In fact, the East German experimental arts scene produced an alternative public—a counter-public—with commitments to culture, community, and interdisciplinarity that state socialism had sought to inspire. This irony, really an inversion of state socialist principles, lies at the heart of my dissertation. Oversimplified narratives of the Cold War era have consistently defined the Eastern Bloc by its victimization or complicity under Communism, leaving little room for details about regional variation in culture or civic politics. My scholarship—based on substantial archival research and numerous interviews—highlights one case among many, joining an emerging field of academics and artists whose work examines the Cold War past as a means of revitalizing and globalizing areas of the world once again at risk of cultural and political isolationism.

Art and cultural historians have long characterized the relationship between East Germany’s experimental artists and its state bureaucrats as at best one of division, opposition, and hostility. In this view, artists are either victims or pawns of the state. In “Infiltration and Excess: Experimental Art and the East German State, 1980 – 1989” I expand this framework to reveal how experimental culture actually engaged with the state and exposed and critiqued its core disjunctions. I focus on artists who used body-based practices, like performance, film, and photography, to create new vocabularies for representation, as well as their uses of reproducible media in the creation and circulation of their work. By the Cold War’s final decade, the GDR government’s inability to produce a collective and coherent public significantly frayed its power. Thus, I argue that experimental practice was not only an antidote for, but also a diagnosis of a weakening state: a foil and a mirror to official culture. In fact, the East German experimental arts scene produced an alternative public—a counter-public—with commitments to culture, community, and interdisciplinarity that state socialism had sought to inspire. This irony, really an inversion of state socialist principles, lies at the heart of my dissertation. Oversimplified narratives of the Cold War era have consistently defined the Eastern Bloc by its victimization or complicity under Communism, leaving little room for details about regional variation in culture or civic politics. My scholarship—based on substantial archival research and numerous interviews—highlights one case among many, joining an emerging field of academics and artists whose work examines the Cold War past as a means of revitalizing and globalizing areas of the world once again at risk of cultural and political isolationism.

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Die Zweigbibliothek Klassische Archäologie der Humboldt-Universität geht auf einen in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts gegründeten "Lehrapparat" zurück. Die Publikation kommentiert die Bestandsentwicklung und Nutzung dieser Bibliothek von ihren Anfängen bis heute. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird den durch politische Systemwechsel verursachten Umbrüchen wie Verlust, Neuaufbau, Entnazifizierung oder Ersatzbeschaffung gewidmet. Einen Schwerpunkt der Publikation stellt die ausführliche photographische Dokumentation dar., Not Reviewed

The master's thesis aims at exploring the laws regulating abortion and reproduction in the GDR until its legalization in 1972. These laws, their impact and mediatization are put into a comparative perspective with the situation in the Soviet Union. The thesis further explores how ideologically charged explanations were used to legitimize abortion laws and the discrepancy between the USSR and the GDR in terms of legalization.

Die Zweigbibliothek Klassische Archäologie der Humboldt-Universität geht auf einen in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts gegründeten "Lehrapparat" zurück. Die Publikation kommentiert die Bestandsentwicklung und Nutzung dieser Bibliothek von ihren Anfängen bis heute. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird den durch politische Systemwechsel verursachten Umbrüchen wie Verlust, Neuaufbau, Entnazifizierung oder Ersatzbeschaffung gewidmet. Einen Schwerpunkt der Publikation stellt die ausführliche photographische Dokumentation dar., Not Reviewed

The master's thesis aims at exploring the laws regulating abortion and reproduction in the GDR until its legalization in 1972. These laws, their impact and mediatization are put into a comparative perspective with the situation in the Soviet Union. The thesis further explores how ideologically charged explanations were used to legitimize abortion laws and the discrepancy between the USSR and the GDR in terms of legalization.

The master's thesis aims at exploring the laws regulating abortion and reproduction in the GDR until its legalization in 1972. These laws, their impact and mediatization are put into a comparative perspective with the situation in the Soviet Union. The thesis further explores how ideologically charged explanations were used to legitimize abortion laws and the discrepancy between the USSR and the GDR in terms of legalization.

Die Zweigbibliothek Klassische Archäologie der Humboldt-Universität geht auf einen in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts gegründeten "Lehrapparat" zurück. Die Publikation kommentiert die Bestandsentwicklung und Nutzung dieser Bibliothek von ihren Anfängen bis heute. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird den durch politische Systemwechsel verursachten Umbrüchen wie Verlust, Neuaufbau, Entnazifizierung oder Ersatzbeschaffung gewidmet. Einen Schwerpunkt der Publikation stellt die ausführliche photographische Dokumentation dar., Not Reviewed

Die Zweigbibliothek Klassische Archäologie der Humboldt-Universität geht auf einen in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts gegründeten "Lehrapparat" zurück. Die Publikation kommentiert die Bestandsentwicklung und Nutzung dieser Bibliothek von ihren Anfängen bis heute. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird den durch politische Systemwechsel verursachten Umbrüchen wie Verlust, Neuaufbau, Entnazifizierung oder Ersatzbeschaffung gewidmet. Einen Schwerpunkt der Publikation stellt die ausführliche photographische Dokumentation dar., Not Reviewed

Die Zweigbibliothek Klassische Archäologie der Humboldt-Universität geht auf einen in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts gegründeten "Lehrapparat" zurück. Die Publikation kommentiert die Bestandsentwicklung und Nutzung dieser Bibliothek von ihren Anfängen bis heute. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird den durch politische Systemwechsel verursachten Umbrüchen wie Verlust, Neuaufbau, Entnazifizierung oder Ersatzbeschaffung gewidmet. Einen Schwerpunkt der Publikation stellt die ausführliche photographische Dokumentation dar., Not Reviewed

Die Zweigbibliothek Klassische Archäologie der Humboldt-Universität geht auf einen in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts gegründeten "Lehrapparat" zurück. Die Publikation kommentiert die Bestandsentwicklung und Nutzung dieser Bibliothek von ihren Anfängen bis heute. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird den durch politische Systemwechsel verursachten Umbrüchen wie Verlust, Neuaufbau, Entnazifizierung oder Ersatzbeschaffung gewidmet. Einen Schwerpunkt der Publikation stellt die ausführliche photographische Dokumentation dar., Not Reviewed

En la colección de ensayos “Zwei Brüder” (2010), la escritora germana Monika Maron (1941) reflexiona en primera persona sobre las causas y consecuencias de la reunificación alemana, representando la historia más reciente de su país desde una perspectiva crítica, individual y diacrónica. El objetivo del presente estudio consiste en analizar brevemente los ensayos que constituyen el volumen mencionado prestando especial atención a los diferentes momentos desde los que la autora reconstruye el pasado de su país a lo largo de dos décadas, así como a su reiterado esfuerzo por conciliarlo con el presente., In the collection of essays “Zwei Brüder” (2010), the German writer Monika Maron (1941) offers her personal reflections on the causes and consequences of the reunification of Germany and examines the most recent history of her home country from an individual, critical and diachronic perspective. The aim of this current study is to present a brief analysis of each essay with special attention given to how the author focuses on specific moments of time in order to reconstruct two decades of German history and further to reveal how, by reviewing the impact of these essays both individually in their original historical context and also as a volume in modern time, the author seeks not only to reinterpret the past but also to reconcile it with the present.

This dissertation utilizes archival sources and interviews to examine the transformation of the journalism profession in East Germany from the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) through the unification of the two German states. During this period of dramatic political and social upheaval, East German journalists navigated the divide between socialist journalism of the GDR and democratic journalism of the Federal Republic. By embedding the history of this professional transformation within a broader narrative of the history of the collapse of communism in Germany and Eastern Europe, this dissertation identifies how the actions of journalists were largely determined by outside forces. Socialist journalism in East Germany was envisioned as a means to use the media to control the public, but in practice the model primarily succeeding in controlling the journalists. As a result, the profession was at the mercy of larger social and geo-political tensions and was hampered by persistent and lingering structures of control that delayed the ability of journalists to undertake any substantive efforts of reform. However, once those structures eroded, there was a brief window where journalists were freed to reform the profession, and many envisioned a future for a democratic socialist journalism that embraced journalistic freedoms but held true to socialist principles of equality and social justice. These ideas were cut short by the rapid implementation of the Unification. West German publishing giants were able to quickly secure control of the East German press landscape, and Christian Democratic Union leadership in both East and West Germany ensured that West German broadcasting structures were expanded to the newly added Eastern German states. As a result, the journalists of the former GDR were left to again adhere to norms and structures imposed from outside. However, there was a significant population of East German journalists who were able to navigate the di

This dissertation examines the politics of children’s music education in the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. The East German state famously attempted to co-opt music education for propagandistic purposes by mandating songs with patriotic texts. However, as I show, most pedagogues believed that these songs were worthless as political education: children, they argued, learned not through the logic of texts, but through the immediacy of their bodies and their emotions. These educators believed music to be an especially effective site for children’s political education, as music played to children’s strongest suit: their unconscious mind and their emotions. Many pedagogues, composers, and musicologists thus adapted Weimar-era methods that used mostly non-texted music to instill what they held to be socialist values of collectivism, diligence, open-mindedness, and critical thought. I trace the fates of four of these pedagogical practices—solfège, the Orff Schulwerk, lessons in listening, and newly-composed “Brechtian” children’s operas—demonstrating how educators sought to graft the new demands of the socialist society onto inherited German musical and pedagogical traditions. I argue that this marriage of old ideas and new aims was often fraught, as pedagogues and even state officials proved reluctant to interrogate fully the possible political uses of an art form which, in the Romantic tradition of Hoffmann and Hanslick, was held to be autonomous and stubbornly intractable to worldly purposes. Accordingly, music education in German socialism proceeded from a vision of aesthetic education that privileged the freedom of the individual—an ideal that proved loyal less to the beliefs of Soviet communism than to the fundamental ideologies of German liberalism. More generally, the dissertation shows how even the most fervently socialist didactic ideals and practices often broke down on the issue of music. Children’s music pedagogy represents, then, a moment in