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2. X. „Eycke von Repkow war kein Revolutionär" – Festrede von Hilde Benjamin am 28. Juni 1959 im Eike-von-Repgow-Dorf Reppichau: Eine Edition mit Anmerkungen.
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Lück, Heiner
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LEGAL history ,SHOW trials ,GERMAN language ,LEGAL judgments ,SPEECH ,VILLAGES - Abstract
The village Reppichau in Sachsen-Anhalt, situated near the towns Dessau, Köthen and Aken (former principality of Anhalt), is closely connected with Eike von Repgow – the author of the most famous mediaeval German law book "Saxon Mirror" (Sachsenspiegel). The law book was written by him between 1220 and 1235. Based on this fact, representatives of science, politics and justice periodically organized in collaboration with the villagers anniversary celebrations, for example 1934 (700
st year of the death of Eike von Repgow) and 1959 (800st year of the first documented mention of the village Reppichau). So it happened that the minister of justice of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Hilde Benjamin (1902–1989), held a keynote speech in Reppichau on 28 June 1959. She was one of the leading representatives of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany during the early years of the GDR. She became famous as a presiding judge in political show trials with court rulings including exceptionally harsh punishments up to the death penalty. This women, who was also known as "Red Hilde" or "Bloody Hilde", used the opportunity of her speech in Reppichau in order to integrate Eike von Repgow, the Saxon Mirror and the villagers into the ruling ideology of the early GDR. Furthermore, she attacked the NATO in general and the Federal Republic of Germany in particular with propaganda phrases. The text of this speech, representing an interesting example of contemporary legal history, is edited here for the first time based on an original copy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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3. Bedarfe und klinische Versorgung Betroffener von SED-Unrecht
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Gallistl, A., Schneider, N., and Strauß, B.
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- 2024
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4. Kommunikation innerhalb der Familie und Symptome der posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung nach einer politischen Inhaftierung
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Weißflog, Gregor, Brähler, Elmar, and Böhm, Maya
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- 2024
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5. Behind the wall: the lack of interaction between east and west and the rise of the radical right
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Isaksson, Zeth
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- 2024
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6. Does Postmodern Mean Capitalist? On Postmodernism and the Planned Economy in Poland and the German Democratic Republic
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Florian Urban
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poland ,postmodernism ,german democratic republic ,neo-historicism ,Architecture ,NA1-9428 ,City planning ,HT165.5-169.9 - Abstract
Does postmodern mean capitalist? This article aims at providing an answer to this question by comparing postmodernism in two socialist contexts: the People’s Republic of Poland, where in the 1980s the planned economy was progressively eroding and postmodern architecture was mostly sponsored by non-state clients (private individuals, small housing cooperatives and the Catholic Church), and the German Democratic Republic, where throughout the 1980s the institutions of the state-planned economy remained in power while commissioning prominent postmodern projects. The article argues that while the difference in economic regimes did not lead to prominent stylistic discrepancies, they strongly influenced the significance and perception of these projects in their specific national contexts.
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- 2023
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7. Varieties of egalitarianism: gender ideologies in the late socialism of the German Democratic Republic.
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Kleinschrot, Leonie, Berth, Felix, and Bujard, Martin
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GENDER inequality , *YOUNG adults , *WOMEN'S rights , *EQUALITY , *IDEOLOGY , *FULL-time employment - Abstract
The socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the east part of former divided Germany, which existed between 1949 and 1990, saw the emancipation of women as a national objective. In this paper we examine the gender ideologies of young people in the GDR in relation to state socialist ideas of gender equality. First, we outline the GDR's socialist state policy in favour of maternal full-time employment, even with young children, between the 1950s and the 1980s. We then present the results of our analysis of gender ideologies using survey data collected by the GDR's Central Institute of Youth Research in 1984. By applying latent class analysis, we identify two patterns of egalitarianism in the analytic sample, which we term 'all-inclusive-egalitarians' and 'not-in-my-backyard-egalitarians' ('nimby-egalitarians'). The former supported gender equality in both the public and familial spheres. The nimby-egalitarians, by contrast, had ambivalent attitudes, as they supported gender equality in the public sphere and at the same time held more traditional attitudes towards the private sphere. Our study demonstrates that after almost 40 years of propagating gender equality, state socialism in the GDR had some success in shaping societal gender ideologies. However, we reveal ambivalences which researchers have previously often overseen, especially in contrast to the Western part of Germany. The top-down shaped GDR patterns of egalitarianism also bear similarities to the stalled gender revolution in contemporary Western democratic societies. Beyond the results, the paper proves the richness and principle usability of hitherto rarely used data sets preserved from the GDR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Sports Management Structure of the The German Democratic Republic (GDR) and State Plan 14.25
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Hamza UYAR, Tekin ÇOLAKOĞLU, Azmi YETİM, and Yalçın UYAR
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sports management ,german democratic republic ,doping ,Sports ,GV557-1198.995 - Abstract
After the Second World War, East Germany achieved great success in sports in a short time despite its political and geographical disadvantages. East Germany was imitating the strategies of the Soviet Union. For this reason, they decided that the best way to show the success of the sports system as the success of its own ideological system and to introduce itself to the world public is sports. For this reason, they have established all sports institutions in line with this purpose and have shaped the sports management structure accordingly. The decision of the International Olympic Committee to recognize the East Germany Olympic Committee in 1965 and it was the most important point of the country's sport. After that, East Germany took the first place in the medal ranking in all Olympic Games it participated in summer and winter sports. The achievements of East Germany attracted great attention around the world. The sports management structure and organization that provided these achievements has been a matter of curiosity. However, with a population of only 17 million, these achievements shortly after its establishment have raised serious questions. With the unification of East and West Germany in 1990, some documents came to light. These documents showed that questions were not unjustified. These documents were labeled "Top Secret" by the East Germany. A project called “State Plan 14.25” of East Germany was implemented. They brought together scientists who were experts in many fields of science. Thus, it has been revealed that they research on athlete performance and doping. In the statements of the East German athletes of the period, which were also recorded in the court minutes, it was mentioned that this plan was not only about research, but that drugs were produced for the performance enhancement of the athletes within the scope of this plan. It was determined that these drugs were tested on the athletes and that the athletes who refused to use the drugs were exposed to threats and exclusion, and many violations were committed. The purpose of this study is to examine the sports management structure of the Republic of East Germany (GDR) and the practices behind its sporting achievements in accordance with the State Plan 14.25.
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- 2023
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9. Aus dem Archiv der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle: Die Glasplattensammlung Karl August Harnisch.
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Hertwig, Heike
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DESIGN museums ,HISTORY of photography ,PHOTOGRAPH collections - Published
- 2023
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10. Doğu Almanya Cumhuriyeti’nin Spor Yönetimi Yapısı ve 14.25 Numaralı Devlet Planı.
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UYAR, Hamza, ÇOLAKOĞLU, Tekin, YETİM, A. Azmi, and UYAR, Yalçın
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DRUG testing in sports ,SPORTS administration ,WINTER sports ,WORLD War II ,COURT records ,GERMAN Unification, 1990 ,SPORTS participation - Abstract
Copyright of Sportif Bakış: Spor ve Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi is the property of Sportif Bakis: Spor ve Egitim Bilimleri Dergisi and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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11. Paying attention to each other. An essay on the transnational intersections of industrial economy, subjectivity, and governance in East Germany's social‐psychological training.
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Lehmbrock, Verena
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HISTORY of psychology , *SUBJECTIVITY , *ARCHIVAL resources - Abstract
This article examines a little‐known chapter both in the history of socialist labor relations and the history of psychology: Social Psychological Training (SPT) for industrial leaders in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Based on previously untapped archival sources, it uncovers the transnational genesis of SPT and its intricate relationships with Western "therapeutic culture" of the 1970s. Governmental perspectives are addressed, as well as the level of individual appropriation of SPT and possible unintended side effects of techniques that were drawn from the social psychological and therapeutical fields. This case study helps to explore the functions of psychological expertise in authoritarian political contexts, as well as the polyvalence of group methods of change, the effects of which could turn out repressive as well as liberating on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The history of SPT solicits a polycentric view on therapeutic culture, capturing its diverse manifestations and interconnections between different societies and political economies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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12. Služební poměr příslušníků bezpečnostních sborů a nároky po jeho skončení v komparaci české a německé právní úpravy.
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Martinec, Jakub
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COMPARATIVE law ,FEDERAL regulation ,ARMED Forces ,COMPARATIVE method ,TERMS & phrases ,DEVELOPING countries ,DO-not-resuscitate orders - Abstract
Copyright of Pravnik is the property of Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of State & Law and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
13. Markus Wolf: Hero and victim of the Cold War
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Parezanović Marko M.
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markus wolff ,german democratic republic ,stasi ,intelligence service ,History (General) and history of Europe ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
For over 30 years, Lieutenant General Markus Wolff headed the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of State Security of the German Democratic Republic. Today, there is neither that state nor that service, and Wolf died in 2006. However, Wolff is certainly the most impressive figure in the intelligence world, above all in the period from the end of the Second World War to the end of the Cold War, and with his ability and results he established himself as the most capable Cold War head of the intelligence service. However, his fate is a tragic one, Wolff perished in the vortex of complex political-security relations between the East and the West, where the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact were decisive for his personal and professional fate. The article analyzes and sheds light on the causes and impacts of complex social phenomena that trace broader social relations, with an emphasis on how these relations can affect an individual who is in a responsible position. The life story of Marcus Wolff is not only a story about him, about two Germanys, about the Cold War, but also a story that has a much deeper background, it is a story about sacrifice, betrayal and suffering in intelligence world.
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- 2023
14. Sound infrastructures of the German Democratic Republic : renewing sound technology during state socialism
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Ó Callanáin, Cormac, Kelly, Elaine, and Williams, Sean
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780.9 ,GDR ,German Democratic Republic ,sound ,sound technology ,acoustics ,infrastructure ,vinyl records ,recording studios ,broadcasting ,popular music - Abstract
This thesis analyses the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) efforts to create and maintain modern sound technology infrastructures to deliver culture to its citizens. Analyses of GDR heavy and hi-tech industries and the state's cultural policies have been key to understanding how state socialism functioned and how it interacted with the world beyond its borders. However, while the intersection of the technological and cultural spheres was no less integral to state socialism, it has been less well served in academic discourse. Tracking the development and application of sound technology in the GDR from the immediate post-war period to the state's eventual demise uncovers revealing narratives of perpetual change across the GDR's nationalised broadcasting and recording industries, provoked by unique political, economic and technological convergences. The technological infrastructures that supported cultural media in the GDR were initially restored from the remnants of pre-war structures, but technological developments in the West brought rapid transformation. The mid- to late-1950s were particularly convulsive as the GDR weathered the loss of its main radio broadcasting centre to Western encirclement and the gramophone record industry collapsed due to the arrival of the vinyl record. The infrastructures that emerged from this period synthesised established commercial and sound technology practices with new ideological priorities, tempered by material and economic limitations. These new infrastructures had substantial success over their lifetimes, but were also vulnerable to the deficiencies of the wider GDR economy. Interactions between the GDR and both Eastern Bloc and Western sound industries were thus critical to the survival of the GDR's native industries. GDR institutions consistently attempted to negotiate and improve their own capabilities while leveraging their strengths to develop commercial relationships that could compensate for areas of comparative weakness. A period of relative technological stability from the 1960s to the late 1970s led into another period of technological upheaval as microelectronics and digital technologies were integrated into sound technologies. A long-term project to develop digital sound technology confirms many criticisms of the GDR's straitened electronics industry, but also indicates how the GDR had workable plans to maintain its sound infrastructures into the next century. This thesis uses representative case studies taken from some of the most tumultuous periods of the GDR's existence to demonstrate how ideology and technology became entwined in the GDR's sound infrastructures. It relies on the records and writings of sound technicians and audio institution administrators to relay how well-understood forces in the GDR's history materially impacted diverse areas of sound technology development and implementation. It also demonstrates how the continuous renewal and re-conceiving of sound-related practices, facilities and technologies in the GDR mingled with the state's economic situation, Cold War political factors and socialist ideologies concerning culture and technology to produce unique technical outcomes.
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- 2020
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15. Die Sektion für Dynamische Gruppenpsychotherapie der Gesellschaft für Ärztliche Psychotherapie der DDR – Eine Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse der Arbeitstagungen und Symposien im Zeitraum von 1969–1990.
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Karkossa, Julia K., Bauer, Monika, and Strauß, Bernhard
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PSYCHODYNAMIC psychotherapy , *GROUP psychotherapy , *PSYCHOTHERAPY , *MEDICAL societies , *AGE groups - Abstract
This exploratory study contributes to the work of the Section for Dynamic Group Psychotherapy – a section of the Society for Medical Psychotherapy of the GDR. Conferences and symposia organized by the section in the period from 1969 to 1990 were analyzed with qualitative content analysis to identify thematic hotspots. The results of the qualitative content analysis show high relevance values in the subject areas of «practice» and «theory» during the entire period. «Research» became relevant at the end of the 1970s and achieved high relevance values in the 1980s. Group psychotherapy was increasingly combined with various group therapy methods and applied to different target groups. From 1974 to 1986, the intended dynamic group psychotherapy determined the methodological focus of the section's work. The 3rd symposium for group psychotherapy (1990) shows thematic specificity. In contrast to previous conferences, aspects of socialization, pedagogy and the treatment of different age groups determine the professional exchange. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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16. Conflicted Afterlives: Managing Wehrmacht Fallen Soldiers in the Soviet Occupation Zone and GDR.
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Tradii, Laura
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WORLD War II , *NAZI Germany, 1933-1945 , *LUTHERAN Church , *WAR , *MILITARY personnel - Abstract
In the last months of the Second World War, as the Red Army approached Berlin, the Wehrmacht suffered catastrophic losses, resulting in thousands of war graves on East German soil. In the aftermath of the war, the Soviet Occupation Zone (1945–9) and the German Democratic Republic (1949–90) committed to a socialist 'politics of history' which centred on the liberation of Germany by the Red Army, disowning the German fallen. This article, based on my PhD research and current British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, outlines how the central authorities of the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR managed the thousands of German Wehrmacht war burials on East German territory. I focus, in particular, on how Wehrmacht war burials came to constitute political and ideological liabilities, prompting concerns about their appropriations by the German Lutheran Church and West Germany. In doing so, I uncover a little-known yet highly significant dimension of the transition between the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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17. Über den Zusammenhang von borders und boundaries – ein Beispiel von der deutsch-polnischen Grenze.
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Kleinmann, Sarah
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Copyright of Kriminologisches Journal is the property of Julius Beltz GmbH & Co. KG Beltz Juventa and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
18. The politics of history and the "Prussia-Renaissance" in the German Democratic Republic, 1968-1987
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Colla, Marcus Timothy and Clark, Christopher
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943 ,German Democratic Republic ,Geschichtspolitik ,Politics of History ,Prussia ,Memory ,Culture - Abstract
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of the 'Prussia-Renaissance' in the German Democratic Republic (the GDR) during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It explores the cultural and political reasons why the official histories of the communist East German state began during this period to recognise and even publicly celebrate figures from Prussian history who had not served a 'progressive' historical agenda. The 'rehabilitation' of Prussian history in the GDR has long been interpreted as a watershed moment in the political and cultural history of the East German state. Yet while it has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, the historiographical focus on the subject has remained statically political, emphasising above all the attempts of the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) to invoke the popular, emotional resources of dynastic and regional history as a legitimating strategy in the face of fast-changing political and economic conditions. Arguing against this tradition, the present study contends that the GDR's 'Prussia-Renaissance' represented much more than a merely opportunistic political decision. Instead, it employs the 'Prussia-Renaissance' as a case study into the problematic relationship between popular historical narratives and socialist 'historicity' that was in fact typical of the 'late socialist' era all throughout Eastern Europe. By looking beyond 'high politics' and examining the cultural sphere, intellectual discourses and the international context from 1968 up until the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987, this dissertation maintains that the GDR's 'Prussia-Renaissance' unfolded as a largely improvised and convoluted process that depended in large part on interactions between 'top-down' policy and 'bottom-up' initiative. It argues that the GDR's politics of history during the 'late socialist' era were conditioned by a dramatic shift in public attitudes towards the past and its symbols that political leaders tried to capture and imbue with a distinctly 'socialist' purpose. In this way, the study explores how the proliferation of new historical practices and policies were in fact symptomatic of deeper changes in the ways that the German past was collectively understood and contested in communist East Germany. Finally, it situates the GDR's 'Prussia-Renaissance' within an international context of changing relationships to, and uses of, the past throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and in this way seeks to employ the 'Prussia-Renaissance' to reintegrate the GDR into a more transnational European story that transcends the Iron Curtain.
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- 2019
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19. Gender Norms under Socialism and Capitalism: A Historical Examination of Attitudes towards Maternal Employment in the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Kleinschrot, Leonie
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CAPITALISM , *SOCIALISM , *FULL-time employment , *SOCIAL norms , *EMPLOYMENT , *FAMILY reunification , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) - Abstract
Research on the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the 1980s shows a high level of congruence between conservative social policy deterring mothers from employment and traditional societal gender norms. In contrast, little is known about whether people in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) agreed with the socialist idea of continuous full-time maternal employment. Based on unexploited GDR data from 1984 and a description of contemporary social policy, this study examines attitudes towards maternal employment, whether they were related to individual preferences for work or children, and their congruence with the socialist policy. The same questions are examined for the FRG using data from 1982. Results for the GDR indicate that one third of respondents rejected the socialist idea of maternal full-time employment, with individual work preferences being decisive for respondents' assessments. In the FRG, there was a high degree of agreement with the gender norm of maternal non-employment, with this being dependent on individual preferences for children. These findings complement post-reunification evidence on East-West-differences in gender norms and provide insights into attitudes under Eastern European state socialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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20. Amigos, propaganda y diplomacia informal: la actuación de la RDA en España a través del asociacionismo de amistad (1979-1990).
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RAMOS DIEZ-ASTRAIN, XAVIER MARÍA
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FRIENDSHIP , *PROPAGANDA , *TRANSNATIONALISM , *INTERNATIONAL agencies , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *DIPLOMACY - Abstract
Friendship associations were once important transnational actors in East-West relations. In Spain, the Asociación Guillermo Humboldt para el Conocimiento y la Amistad entre España y la República Democrática Alemana (Wilhelm Humboldt Association for Knowledge and Friendship between Spain and the German Democratic Republic) was founded in 1979, which, in connection with the Liga für Völkerfreundschaft of the GDR, was intended to serve as an instrument of propaganda and informal diplomacy. The main aim of this article is to examine the Liga für Völkerfreundschaft's propaganda activities in Spain, the role played by the Wilhelm Humboldt Association and its limitations. It uses Spanish and German sources and makes a comparative exercise with similar organisations linked to the Soviet Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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21. Powieść Popiół i diament Jerzego Andrzejewskiego a cenzura w NRD.
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Rajch, Marek
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The article presents how the Polish novel Popiół 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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22. Gender Norms under Socialism and Capitalism: A Historical Examination of Attitudes towards Maternal Employment in the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany
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Leonie Kleinschrot
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german democratic republic ,socialism ,gender norms ,maternal employment ,Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology ,HT101-395 ,City population. Including children in cities, immigration ,HT201-221 ,Demography. Population. Vital events ,HB848-3697 - Abstract
Research on the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the 1980s shows a high level of congruence between conservative social policy deterring mothers from employment and traditional societal gender norms. In contrast, little is known about whether people in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) agreed with the socialist idea of continuous full-time maternal employment. Based on unexploited GDR data from 1984 and a description of contemporary social policy, this study examines attitudes towards maternal employment, whether they were related to individual preferences for work or children, and their congruence with the socialist policy. The same questions are examined for the FRG using data from 1982. Results for the GDR indicate that one third of respondents rejected the socialist idea of maternal full-time employment, with individual work preferences being decisive for respondents’ assessments. In the FRG, there was a high degree of agreement with the gender norm of maternal non-employment, with this being dependent on individual preferences for children. These findings complement post-reunification evidence on East-West-differences in gender norms and provide insights into attitudes under Eastern European state socialism. * This article belongs to a special issue on “Demographic Developments in Eastern and Western Europe Before and After the Transformation of Socialist Countries”.
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- 2023
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23. Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall
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Heller, Ayline and Schmidt, Peter
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German unification ,transformation studies ,social change ,Berlin Wall ,Federal German Republic ,FRG ,German Democratic Republic ,GDR ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMA Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints ,thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKM Clinical psychology::MKMT Psychotherapy ,thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKP Accident and emergency medicine::MKPB Trauma and shock ,thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development ,thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ,thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history ,thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBC Social research and statistics ,thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general::GPS Research methods: general ,thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFN Health, illness and addiction: social aspects ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFF Left-of-centre democratic ideologies ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology - Abstract
This book examines the increasing body of research dedicated to the lasting differences between the former separate states of the Federal German Republic (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it takes a broad view on German unification and transformation research. Transformation and unification processes in East and West Germany are still ongoing, and they may serve as a model for social change and its political, economic, and psychological consequences. Using advanced statistical methods of analysis, this edited volume provides insights into the valuable contextualization of individual and social phenomena that current research on German unification and transformation is producing. Following the open science mindset using code and data, the authors investigate temporal trends in (1) mental health, (2) political attitudes, and (3) work and family life. It explores changes in mental health and political attitudes, as well as continued differences in work and family arrangements, that may stem from heterogeneous experiences within the systems and during the transformation process. This book will appeal to scholars and students from the disciplines of sociology, political science, public health, social psychology, psychology, and communication science interested in postsocialist transition processes and temporal changes in individuals and societies.
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- 2024
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24. Far-right anniversary politics and social media: The Alternative for Germany's contestation of the East German past on Twitter.
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Richardson-Little, Ned, Merrill, Samuel, and Arlaud, Leah
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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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25. 101 Ways to Refuse a Wall.
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POLITICAL participation ,MULTIDISCIPLINARY practices ,WALLS - Abstract
AN INSTRUMENT OF CONTAINMENT, SUBDIVISION, OWNERSHIP OF SPACE, COLONISATION, AND RACIAL AND POLITICAL DIVIDE, THAT MOST UBIQUITOUS OF ARCHITECTURAL TOOLS – THE WALL – CAN ALSO BE DÉTOURNED, REAPPROPRIATED, DEMOLISHED AND RE‐ADORNED. ARTIST AND DESIGNER, AND CO‐FOUNDER OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE YEJU & CHAT, CHAT TRAVIESO LOOKS AT DIFFERENT WAYS OF SUBVERTING THE FUNCTION OF A WALL AS A BARRIER BY EITHER DISREGARDING IT, APPROPRIATING IT, CIRCUMVENTING IT OR ABOLISHING IT, AND THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THESE ACTIONS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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26. Germany
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Nagel, Klaus-Jürgen and Martí-Henneberg, Jordi, editor
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- 2021
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27. Our Daily Bread: East German Production Stories for Children in the Postwar Years.
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Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina and Meibauer, Jörg
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CHILD consumers , *BREAD , *CHILDREN'S literature , *CONSUMERS - Abstract
This article focuses on three East German descriptive picturebooks from the 1950s that explain the production of bread, milk, and fish. These production stories not only convey knowledge by means of the juxtaposition of text and images but also emphasize the achievements of the five-year plan with respect to the provision of food for the citizens of the German Democratic Republic. This combination of information and propagandistic messages served to encourage the child readers' identification with the agenda of the socialist state. Hence, the presumptive role of the child reader as naive consumer merges with the idea of the politically engaged socialist child. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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28. The Concert Hall as Agonistic Public Space: The Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
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Schicker, Juliane
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PUBLIC spaces , *CONCERT halls , *MUSICAL performance , *ART , *CONCORD - Abstract
This article deals with questions of the sociopolitical involvement of classical music performance spaces. During the last twenty years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Gewandhaus in Leipzig provided opportunities for its users to emancipate themselves from Socialist Unity Party oppression. Through its architecture, music, and visual art, the Gewandhaus symbolized an agonistic space that aided in disrupting its sociopolitical surroundings, because it made visible what real-existing socialism was lacking: unity, openness, transparency, and internationality. Examining how the Gewandhaus interacted with its sociopolitical surroundings sheds light on its ability to engage with public discourse within the restricted society of the GDR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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29. Operative Psychologie: Zur Gründung und Entwicklung eines Lehrstuhls an der Juristischen Hochschule des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit der DDR.
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Wieser, Martin
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DEVELOPMENTAL psychology ,EXECUTIVE departments ,INTELLIGENCE officers ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
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30. Cooperation, Competition, and Control: The Founding and the Development of the “Gemischte Gesellschaft” of the VEB Carl Zeiss Jena in London (1964–1989).
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Senoner, Lena
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COOPERATION ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,JOINT ventures - Abstract
This article deals with the so-called Gemischte Gesellschaften (joint ventures), a special form of economic cooperation between the GDR and the West. Using the example of the Gemischte Gesellschaft of the foreign trade organization of Carl Zeiss Jena in London, the article outlines its foundation in the 1960s and its development from the 1970s to 1989. The article reveals that the Gemischte Gesellschaft was a comparably successful form of distribution for the VEB Carl Zeiss but also points out the different problems it faced. Furthermore, the article argues that the Gemischte Gesellschaften were a space of cooperation between West and East, but also assisted the GDR to assert its economic interests against the Western competition in capitalistic markets. The case study illustrates that in order to overcome the contradictions between cooperation and competition between East and West, control mechanisms were necessary to ensure that the interests of the socialist state were enforced within the Gemischte Gesellschaften. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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31. Sport across Cold War Borders in the 1970s and 1980s: East and West German Football Fans and Players under Surveillance.
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Dennis, Mike
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SOCCER fans ,COLD War, 1945-1991 ,GERMANS ,SPORTS ,DISORDERLY conduct - Abstract
Given the cultural centrality of sport during the Cold War, the East German communist authorities constructed an elaborate system of surveillance to prevent flight to the West by sport personalities and to control private interactions between East and West Germans, encounters that increased exponentially in the détente era. East German football fans met up with West German counterparts to watch games in East Berlin as well as at high-profile matches in Eastern Europe that involved clubs such as Bayern Munich and the West German national team. Cross-border interconnections were especially close between supporters of Hertha Berlin in the West and those of Union Berlin in the East whose bitter rivalry with the Stasi-supported BFC Dynamo frequently erupted in violence. Widespread outbursts of ‘hooliganism’ and East-West football entanglements testified not only to the fracturing of Cold War polarities but also to the prevalence of autonomous activities in society that contributed to the cultural ‘defeat’ of GDR-style socialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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32. Farewell to an unloved country: la Gran Bretagna e la crisi della Repubblica democratica tedesca.
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BENTIVOGLIO, GIULIA
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HISTORIOGRAPHY ,AUTHORSHIP ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,NATIONAL archives - Abstract
Relations between Britain and the German Democratic Republic (Gdr) have always been quite blurry: on the one hand, they were included in the more general relations with Central-Eastern Europe, but on the other hand, they were part of a “triangular relationship” between London, Berlin and Bonn. The Federal Republic of Germany was a constant and often cumbersome presence that infl uenced and often limited contacts with the Gdr. In this “asymmetrical triangle”, historiography has also focused on the relations between the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic, and only in recent years have a few volumes been published dealing with the relations between London and the “other Germany”. Similarly, in analyzing the events of 1989-90, the focus has almost always been on German reunifi cation, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s fervent hostility to such a prospect, and the strained relations between Britain and West Germany that resulted from it. In reality, the complexity of dimensions and this multi-level context emerged predominantly in the fi nal phase of the Gdr: the purpose of the article, based on the diplomatic documents of the National Archives of the United Kingdom, is to try to shed new light on a topic only marginally treated, that is the British image of the Gdr crisis of 1989-90. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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33. The development of maxillofacial surgery in East Germany: From a municipal hospital to specialised department at the medical academy Dresden.
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Marschner F
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The transition of the Stomatology Clinic into the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery at the Medical Academy Carl Gustav Carus in Dresden shows how healthcare evolved in East Germany after the Second World War. Founded in 1954 to tackle medical staff shortages, the department grew and specialised over time, becoming a key hub for surgical dentistry in Saxony. Through structural changes, it became a semi-autonomous unit, emphasising patient care and research. By 1983, it evolved into a full Section of Stomatology, streamlining care and training, enhancing expertise and promoting collaboration. Overall, this transformation reflects a significant shift in dental healthcare and academic leadership, shaping surgical dentistry in the region., Competing Interests: Declaration of conflicting interestsThe author declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
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- 2024
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34. Between surrealism and politics: An exploration of subversive body arts in 1980s East German underground cinema.
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Schulz, Cynthia
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BODY art , *ART movements , *DADAISM , *AVANT-garde (Arts) , *POLITICAL movements , *SURREALISM , *FILM studies - Abstract
This article discusses the underground cinema of the German Democratic Republic during the 1980s in regard to its contributions to the arts and the avant-garde. While scholars including Claus Löser and Katrin Frietzsche have contributed greatly to the remembrance of the East German underground cinema, its influences have been disregarded by film studies, not least within the anglophone field. As a result, little to no research has been conducted regarding its contributions to the avant-garde or through the scope of other art movements as the political aspect continues to be emphasized. This article draws upon multiple art developments such as dada, surrealism, performance and body art as well as Eastern European-specific movements. Therefore, it evaluates how the East German underground interprets those influences and further contributes to them. Significant works by Cornelia Schleime, Gabriele Stötzer, Thomas Frydetzki and Tohm di Roes are subject to analyses to reveal anarchist feminist tendencies and surrealism with anarchist aspects. It concludes that the East German underground must be seen as a contribution to the less-researched necrorealism as an art movement paralleling the constitutional socialist realism. As such, political implications cannot be subtracted altogether but shall rather be viewed alongside the emergence of anarchist surrealism during the Cold War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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35. Ulrich Plenzdorf's kein runter kein fern: Disability, Masculinity, and Literary Social Criticism in the Period 1976–1991.
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Balling, Sebastian
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SOCIAL criticism ,MASCULINITY ,LEARNING disabilities ,DISABILITIES ,FERNS ,LITERARY adaptations - Abstract
In this article, I analyse Ulrich Plenzdorf's novel kein runter kein fern, an often-overlooked text critiquing the society of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the late 1970s that focuses primarily on the theme of disability. Plenzdorf's protagonist, a boy with a mild learning disability, is pressured to develop a masculine body to overcome his mental handicap. Analysing the story from a perspective based on Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies and Julia Hell's Post-Fascist Fantasies, I argue that Plenzdorf is showing the GDR as a militarized, masculine society, unable to deal with disability in a humane manner. His protagonist therefore has no other choice but to cope with his disability by becoming what he calls a 'panzermann', that means a man whose feelings are cut off with a tank-like body. Furthermore, by drawing on a rich collection of archival materials, I show how Plenzdorf's depiction of disability, masculinity, and GDR society caused a major literary scandal, and how he radicalized these topics in later adaptations. Reviewing this material that has not been published before, I argue that Plenzdorf widened his criticism during the Wende years and transformed his criticism of the GDR society to a criticism of the German society as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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36. Sexuelle Deviationen und Sexualdelinquenz in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur der forensischen Psychiatrie der DDR.
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Widmer, Maria, Schmidt-Recla, Adrian, and Steinberg, Holger
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37. Die Impfaktion gegen Poliomyelitis in der DDR im Jahr 1960 am Beispiel der Stadt Halle (Saale): Historische Erfahrungen und Probleme.
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Wanke, Anne Thordis and Bruns, Florian
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38. Transitions in the Way Germans and Polish-German Relations Were Presented in the Primary Schools of the Polish People's Republic.
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Kuliś, Jakub
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GERMAN language ,PRIMARY schools ,WAR trauma ,POLISH language ,PROPAGANDA ,GERMANS - Abstract
The aim of the article is to show the changes in the perception of Germans and Polish-German relations in the education of the People's Republic of Poland. This problem is related to the changes in the domestic politics of post-war Poland and both German states. The paper is devoted to the evolution of the perception of Poland's western neighbor from the post-war period to the end of the Polish People's Republic, i.e. until 1989. The study presents the beginnings of the anti-German narration, caused by war trauma, which has intensified since 1949 due to pressure which has been exerted by communist government. The next part shows in which places the end of Stalinism and the takeover of power by Władysław Gomułka softened the perception of Federal Republic of Germany. The next phase was opened by the recognition of the western border of Poland by the Federal Republic of Germany on December 7, 1970. This event entailed a gradual liberalization of the recognition of the German problem in the curricula. Undoubtedly, this tendency deepened in the decade of Edward Gierek's rule due to the problems of the Polish People's Republic with the repayment of foreign debt, partly also in West Germany. In the early 1980s, the establishment of The Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union Solidarność brought a new quality. Thanks to them the methods of showing Germans (and Polish education as a whole) started a slowly evolution to eliminate the communist propaganda. The school subjects which received the most attention were history, German language, Polish language and geography, because during these lessons the issues related to Germany were most often discussed. The work was created on the basis of selected textbooks and curricula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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39. Outwitting the Gestapo? German Communist Resistance between Loyalty and Betrayal.
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Grashoff, Udo
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COMMUNISTS , *NAZI Germany, 1933-1945 , *BETRAYAL , *HARM (Ethics) , *LOYALTY - Abstract
This article discusses ambiguous tactics of German Communist resisters in the Third Reich. The official historiography of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) portrayed Communist resisters as unfaltering heroes. By contrast, revisionist studies published after 1990 presented Communists as traitors and renegades. This study transcends these approaches that revolve around legitimation or de-legitimation of the dictatorship, and examines the dubious manoeuvring of three German Communists who strategically collaborated with the Nazis, namely Theodor Bottländer, Friedrich Schlotterbeck and Wilhelm Knöchel. While Knöchel's attempts to outwit the Gestapo failed and could not prevent his execution, Schlotterbeck and Bottländer found ways to survive - largely without betraying their comrades. Even so, the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), as well as its successor in the GDR, the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED), reprimanded venturesome, inventive and obstinate Communists, excluded them from the party and brought them to court. The harsh reactions are indicative of the inability of Communist historiography to acknowledge 'Eigen-Sinn', and highlight a central shortcoming of the antifascist doctrine. Likewise, more recent revisionist approaches have failed to recognise various attempts of Communists to minimise harm and survive in the grey zone between betrayal and loyalty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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40. The Dark Side of Inspirational Pasts: An Investigation of Nostalgia in Right-Wing Populist Communication
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Manuel Menke and Tim Wulf
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alternative for germany ,collective nostalgia ,german democratic republic ,online election campaign ,persuasion ,political communication ,populism ,Communication. Mass media ,P87-96 - Abstract
In recent years, research found that populism employed a new strategy by using nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, as a communication tool to persuade citizens to support their political agendas. In populist campaigns, nostalgia is used to affectively link (alleged) crises with longing for a cherished past. In this article, we applied a mixed-methods approach to understand how populists exploit nostalgia in their communication and how nostalgic rhetoric has the potential to persuade people to support their claims. In Study 1, we conducted a case study based on a qualitative content analysis of Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) online election campaign in the 2019 Thuringia election in East Germany. The analysis revealed that the campaign was built around the nostalgic narrative of the 1989 peaceful revolution as a proud historical moment for former German Democratic Republic citizens while at the same time creating a sense of crisis supposedly caused by false post-reunification politics. To further investigate the persuasiveness of nostalgia, Study 2 used a statement from the campaign and found that participants tended to agree more with populist statements if they contained nostalgic rhetoric (compared to non-nostalgic populist and control rhetoric). These findings suggest that right-wing populists can effectively exploit nostalgia and that it may ‘sugarcoat’ populist messages.
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- 2021
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41. 30 Years of East-West Migration in Germany: A Synthesis of the Literature and Potential Directions for Future Research
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Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Nico Stawarz, and Nikola Sander
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internal migration ,return migration ,literature review ,economic disparities ,political transformation ,german democratic republic ,macroeconomic factors ,individual-level determinants ,Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology ,HT101-395 ,City population. Including children in cities, immigration ,HT201-221 ,Demography. Population. Vital events ,HB848-3697 - Abstract
The reunification of the socialist German Democratic Republic and the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany presents a unique setting for studying the impact of socio-economic and political change on migration. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the interdisciplinary literature on migration between East and West Germany since reunification, conducted in disciplines such as economics, demography, sociology, and human geography. We synthesise the literature with regard to data-related challenges as well as individual and contextual determinants of migration. We clarify some misinterpretations and discrepancies in previous studies, identify research gaps, and suggest directions for future research. Our review demonstrates that East-West migration mainly occurred in line with what could have been expected based on migration theory with regard to migrants’ sex, age, education, labour market position, and social networks. West-East migration, in contrast, was strongly affected by return migrants who often stated non-occupational motives for moving. On the contextual level, differences in wages are better able to explain East-West migration over time than differences in unemployment rates. West-East migration, however, cannot be explained well with such macroeconomic models. This paper contributes a point of reference for future research on this topic, as well as on internal migration and socio-economic disparities in general.
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- 2022
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42. 'Wechselschritt zwischen Anpassung und aufrechtem Gang' : negotiating the tensions between literary ambition and political constraints at the Institut für Literatur 'Johannes R. Becher' Leipzig (1950-1990)
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Micke, Marina Kai-Ina
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830.9 ,GDR ,German Democratic Republic ,DDR ,Deutsche Demokratische Republik ,Institut für Literatur "Johannes R. Becher" ,Becher Institut ,Writer Training ,Cultural Practice ,Cultural Policy ,Cultural Institution ,Bourdieu ,Cultural Capital ,Literary Practice ,Cultural Production ,Cultural Field ,East Germany - Abstract
This thesis explores how the Institut für Literatur ‘Johannes R. Becher’, an East German institution for the training of writers, negotiated tensions that arose from the conflicting demands between literary and political values. The Institute had the objective to foster emerging literary talents according to the socialist ideal of a working writer, but often found students and staff drawn towards more autonomous literary values that were incompatible with the views of the East German Socialist Unity Party. As a result, the Institute’s practices fluctuated between toeing the party line and pursuing literary ambitions. An overview of the existing scholarship shows that the Institute and its function have been highly politicised and hardly subjected to analyses that allow for a more nuanced appraisal of its practices. As a result, the study of the Institut has not been able to transcend the binary differentiation between assent and dissent and the Institute is either presented as a liberal haven or an orthodox academy with little artistic value. This thesis addresses this issue by applying Bourdieu’s’ theory of cultural production, more specifically his notion of field, capital and habitus, to the study of the Becher Institute. Three case studies that form the core of this dissertation investigate how cultural capital in its institutionalised, embodied, and objectified form was accumulated, converted and exchanged by the Institute, how it tried to reconcile the tensions between cultural policy and creative aspirations and how these tensions affected the Institute’s common habitus. The first case study will show how the Institute’s founding shaped the institutionalised capital it represented and question the importance that has been attributed to prominent political figures during the founding process. The second case study examines the role of the lecturer and the influence their embodied capital had on the Institute. Two lecturers, working writer Werner Bräunig and poet Georg Maurer, and their representation of the Institute’s multiple habitus will be the focus of the analysis. The third and final case study is dedicated to objectified cultural capital in the form of the Institute’s publications during the 1970s. The Institute’s orthodox publications have so far been overlooked by scholars in favour of its more controversial literary output, which gives a misleading impression of the Institute’s literary output that I aim to amend. By developing a sociological framework for the study of the Institute, this thesis is able to investigate the Institute and its practices as a social and literary space under the watchful eye of the Socialist Unity Party, without denying its pedagogical and cultural dimensions. The findings will reveal a deeply conflicted institution that struggled throughout its existence to resolve the tensions between literary ambitions and political restraints as well as the contradictions within the literary field itself.
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- 2016
43. "Homosexual People Do Not Stand Outside of Socialist Society": Eingaben and the History of Homosexuality in East Germany.
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Johnson, Jason
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HOMOSEXUALITY , *SOCIALIST societies , *PETITIONS , *GAY people , *GAY rights movement , *HISTORICAL source material ,EAST German history - Abstract
This article centers on four petitions (Eingaben) presented to the East German Central Committee in the 1970s and 1980s by men attracted to other men. The East German legal apparatus required that the state address all petitions. An analysis of these Eingaben written by non-activists demonstrates a growing boldness to use the available legal structures to claim one's rights. The petitioners used the Eingaben system to assert their legitimacy as GDR citizens, forcing officials to deal with them as any other citizen. This article moreover calls for the still young field of East German homosexual history to more fully incorporate the untold number of Eingaben written by homosexuals in the former GDR. This would help to develop a more comprehensive historical narrative as such documents provide an invaluable and unique window into everyday life under socialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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44. The Story of Laura. Eastern Bloc Surveillance of Spain in the Late Cold War (1967-1990).
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Faraldo, Jose M.
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COLD War, 1945-1991 , *ORAL history , *SECRET police , *EVERYDAY life , *DIPLOMATS , *SPIES - Abstract
Based on Spanish, German, Polish and Romanian archives, this article explores some aspects of the Cold War that have hardly been studied until now: the activities of the Eastern Bloc secret services in Spain; the surveillance of Spanish diplomats; and Eastern European spies in Spain. The article examines the history of East-West relationships but adds the perspective of everyday life, using oral history and the records of the security police. The focus is on the importance of the surveillance of Spain as a Cold War country, which has almost never been researched in its connection to the Eastern Bloc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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45. LA NORMALIZACIÓN DIPLOMÁTICA ENTRE ESPAÑA Y LA RDA (1973): UN SALTO DESDE LA NADA APARENTE.
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Ramos Diez-Astrain, Xavier María
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SOCIALIST societies , *POLITICAL parties , *COLD War, 1945-1991 , *DIPLOMATIC & consular service , *FRANCOISM - Abstract
Until 1973 Spain refused to have political relations with the GDR because of the Franco regime's anti-communism and its support for the West German Hallstein Doctrine. The GDR did not want relations with Spain either, as the former struggle of the International Brigades legitimised the East German regime and its ruling party (SED) supported the PCE's anti-Franco struggle. However, in 1973 the GDR became the first socialist country to exchange embassies with Spain, which - with the exception of China - did not happen again until 1977. This article attempts to explain why through documentary, newspaper and bibliographical sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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46. 30 Years of East-West Migration in Germany: A Synthesis of the Literature and Potential Directions for Future Research.
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Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Matthias, Stawarz, Nico, and Sander, Nikola
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INTERNAL migration , *HUMAN geography , *RETURN migrants , *EVIDENCE gaps , *GERMAN Unification, 1990 , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *MASS migrations - Abstract
The reunification of the socialist German Democratic Republic and the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany presents a unique setting for studying the impact of socio-economic and political change on migration. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the interdisciplinary literature on migration between East and West Germany since reunification, conducted in disciplines such as economics, demography, sociology, and human geography. We synthesise the literature with regard to data-related challenges as well as individual and contextual determinants of migration. We clarify some misinterpretations and discrepancies in previous studies, identify research gaps, and suggest directions for future research. Our review demonstrates that East-West migration mainly occurred in line with what could have been expected based on migration theory with regard to migrants' sex, age, education, labour market position, and social networks. West-East migration, in contrast, was strongly affected by return migrants who often stated non-occupational motives for moving. On the contextual level, differences in wages are better able to explain East-West migration over time than differences in unemployment rates. West-East migration, however, cannot be explained well with such macroeconomic models. This paper contributes a point of reference for future research on this topic, as well as on internal migration and socio-economic disparities in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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47. Mit Tropenhelm in Thüringen Rezeption und Repräsentation Albert Schweitzers in Weimar seit 1960.
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Noeske, Jannik
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WEIMAR Republic, 1918-1933 ,POLITICAL parties ,MONUMENTS ,SCULPTURE ,STATUES ,THEOLOGIANS - Abstract
In 1968, a monument for Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was erected in Weimar. It is presumably the fi rst of its kind honouring the doctor, theologian, and pacifi st, who was internationally renowned for his engagement in Lambaréné’s hospital in Gabon. The erection of the statue was organised by the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and, thus, represented the socialist state’s ardour and support for Albert Schweitzer. In particular, the Christian Democratic opposition party, together with its chairman Gerald Götting, sought to popularise Albert Schweitzer in the GDR. The monument though – sculpted by Gerhard Geyer in 1968 – employs a racialised imagery that contributes to a colonialist iconography of Albert Schweitzer, a phenomenon not restricted to East Germany. In Weimar – a showcase of state socialism – the monument represents a specifi c place of encounter and memorial and, thus, enacts a historical politics of remembrance. Nonetheless, common knowledge of the history of aid for Lambaréné is rare in Weimar and Eastern Germany. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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48. Ünlü Atatürk Biyografı Herbert Melzig Kimdir?
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DEMİREL, Ömer Faruk
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- 2022
49. Thailand's Trade Relations with the German Democratic Republic: the Example of Carl Zeiss Jena.
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Warning, Christina
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INTERNATIONAL economic relations ,OPTICAL instruments ,INTERNATIONAL trade - Abstract
With the example of one of the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) most renowned high-tech companies, Carl Zeiss Jena, this article argues that despite global and regional pressures, Thailand's international trade relations have been nurtured largely without reference to ideological bias. Founded in 1846, the Carl Zeiss Jena Company grew to become an important patent holder in the production and export of precision optical instruments. By the 1930s, Carl Zeiss Jena was already an important international player, attracting military institutions and land surveying specialists, including clients from Siam/Thailand. In the decads to come, Carl Zeiss Jena's relations with Thailand transcended the major global conflicts of the twentieth century, most notably the acrimonious Cold War period and Germany's partition. This stability is a testament to the flexibility with which Thailand's diplomatic and military elites have been willing to engage with diverse partners regardless of political affiliations and fundamental ideological differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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50. Germany: After the Mandarins
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Duller, Matthias, Fleck, Christian, Schögler, Rafael Y., Fleck, Christian, Series Editor, Heilbron, Johan, Series Editor, Santoro, Marco, Series Editor, Sapiro, Gisèle, Series Editor, Duller, Matthias, editor, and Karády, Victor, editor
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- 2019
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