Umfang:
1 online resource (xvii, 463 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781107278899
,
9781107049314
,
9781107627406
Inhalt:
The history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on an extensive range of archival sources and interviews, this book profiles key memory activists who have fought to commemorate the history of the Berlin Wall and examines their role in the creation of a new German national narrative. With victims, perpetrators and heroes, the Berlin Wall has joined the Holocaust as an essential part of German collective memory. Key Wall anniversaries have become signposts marking German views of the past, its relevance to the present, and the complicated project of defining German national identity. Considering multiple German approaches to remembering the Wall via memorials, trials, public ceremonies, films, and music, this revelatory work also traces how global memory of the Wall has impacted German memory policy. It depicts the power and fragility of state-backed memory projects, and the potential of such projects to reconcile or divide.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781107049314
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Harrison, Hope M., 1963 - After the Berlin Wall Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781107049314
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781107627406
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
,
Ethnologie
Schlagwort(e):
Deutschland
;
Berliner Mauer
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Geschichte 1989-2019
DOI:
10.1017/9781107278899
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