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xiv, 309 Seiten
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Ausgabe:
First edition
ISBN:
0192865900
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9780192865908
Serie:
Studies in German history
Inhalt:
No example demonstrates the fluidity of the past within the German Democratic Republic more powerfully than the history of the Prussian state. Initially attacked in East German official histories as the historical engine of German militarism and reaction, Prussia underwent a remarkable transformation in official and public memory from around the end of the 1970s. This was the so-called 'Prussia-Renaissance', in which, for the first time, the East German state began to recognise and even celebrate figures from Prussian history who had not served a 'progressive' agenda. But the 'Prussia-Renaissance' was also a political and cultural phenomenon with a wide public resonance. The 'Prussia-Renaissance' may have been a relatively short-lived phenomenon, but it evidently opened a deep vein in the historical memory of the German Democratic Republic that defied reduction to 'high politics' alone. This book asks why. Using the case study of Prussia, Marcus Colla presents a multi-perspective approach to the way that a distinctive 'historical culture' was constructed in the German Democratic Republic. It not only evaluates the roles played by political figures, historians, and cultural elites, but also heritage preservationists, exhibition curators, heimat museums, television producers, novelists and playwrights, and singers – the purveyors of what we might more generally term 'popular culture'. In essence, Colla poses four fundamental questions for our understanding of life, politics and culture in communist East Germany: how was history there made? How was it understood? How was it contested? And how was it used?
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Weitere Ausg.:
10.1093/oso/9780192865908.001.0001
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ISBN 9780192689948
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Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Colla, Marcus Prussia in the historical culture of the German Democratic Republic Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780191956638
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Deutschland
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Kulturerbe
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