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More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction Gwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-Prei PART I: GROUNDWORK Chapter 1. Preserving the Past Before and After the Wende: A Case Study of Quedlinburg
Heike Alberts Chapter 2. No Man's Land: Fiction and Reality in Buddy Giovinazzo's Potsdamer Platz
Christopher Jones PART II: PROJECTIONS Chapter 3. Cinematic Reflections of Germany's Postunification Woes: Architecture and Urban Space of Frankfurt (Oder) in Halbe Treppe, Lichter, and Kombat Sechzehn
Sebastian Heiduschke Chapter 4. Reclaiming the Thuringian Tuscany: The Touristic Appeal of Bad Sulza and its Toskana Therme
Erika Nelson Chapter 5. Berlin through the Lens: Space and (National) Identity in the Postunification Capital
Susanna Miller, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Tamara Nadolny, Heidi Manicke, Flavia Zaka, Trevor Blakeney, and Jude Hirman Chapter 6. The Amputated City: The Voids of Hoyerswerda
Gwyneth Cliver PART III: THEORIES Chapter 7. Sounding out Erfurt: Does the Song Remain the Same?
Heiner Stahl Chapter 8. Restoration and Redemption: Defending Kultur and Heimat in Eisenach's Cityscape
Jason James Chapter 9. The Bauwerk in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility: Historical Reconstruction, Pious Modernism, and Dresden's "sьяe Krankheit"
Rob McFarland with Elizabeth Guthrie Afterword Rolf J. Goebel Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Gwyneth Cliver is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She completed her PhD in 2008 from Washington University in St Louis and has also taught at Guilford College in North Carolina and Ball State University. Her research includes the integration of mathematics and mathematical philosophy in the writings of Robert Musil and Hermann Broch.
Carrie Smith-Prei is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Alberta and holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realism in the German Sixties (U of Toronto P, 2013), co-editor of a special issue on lesbian representations (Germanistik in Ireland, 2010), and is co-founder of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.
Summary
More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East.
