UID:
almafu_9961565609602883
Format:
1 online resource (261 pages)
ISBN:
1-350-08156-6
,
1-350-08154-X
Content:
Bringing together approaches from cultural and urban history, as well as German studies and political theory, Clare Copley's probing study reflects on post-unification responses to iconic Nazi architecture to reveal insights into power, legitimacy and memory politics in the Berlin Republic. Analysing public debates, physical interventions into the buildings and the structuring of the memory landscapes around them, the book demonstrates that the politics of memory impact not just upon the built environment of the post-dictatorship city, but upon the way decisions about it are made. In doing so, Nazi Buildings, Cold War Traces and Governmentality in Post-Unification Berlin makes the case for conceiving of a specifically 'post-authoritarian' governmentality and uses the responses to constructions like Goering's Aviation Ministry, Tempelhof Airport and the Olympic complex to explore its features.
Note:
Intro Title Page Copyright Page Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Theoretical approach Chapter 1: Governmentality and the politics of the past Chapter 2: Difficult heritage in Berlin and beyond Part 2: Plurality? Performingpost-authoritarian governmentality at the former Aviation Ministry Introduction Chapter 3: Traces of National Socialism and the GDR in the 'mirror of German history' Chapter 4: Commemorating opposition to Nazism and to the GDR: Harro Schultze-Boysen and 17 June 1953 Chapter 5: Negotiating (in)accessibility at a democraticgovernment building Part 3: Rationality? Negotiating post-authoritarian governmentality at the Olympic Stadium Introduction Chapter 6: Responding to the 'racist cult of the body manifested in stone': The Olympic Stadium's sculpture collection Chapter 7: Disentangling the Olympic Stadium's layers: The history trail Chapter 8: (En)Countering the cult of the deadThe Langemarck Hall memorial Part 4: Freedom? Transcending post-authoritarian governmentality at the former Tempelhof Airport Introduction Chapter 9: Closing Tempelhof Airport, Berlin's'gateway to the world' Chapter 10: The Columbia-Haus concentration camp and the forced labourer barracks: Exposing Tempelhof's 'other' pasts Chapter 11: Contesting freedom: The proposed development of the heterotopiaof Tempelhofer Feld Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-350-08153-1
Language:
English
