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Encourages and disseminates discussion of themes pertinent to German Studies, viewed from various angles but with particular interest in problems arising out of politics and history. This book offers fresh perspectives on the cultural history of the GDR.
List of contents
Introduction - Matthew Philpotts and Sabine Rolle
"It is not the same Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms": East German New Music and the "Divided" German Heritage - Laura Silverberg
The Individual and the Romantic Aesthetic: Compositionl Engagement with Romanticism in the GDR - Elaine Kelly
"Auferstanden aus Ruinen": Die Konstruktion kultureller Traditionen einer traditionslosen Gesellschaft im Wiederaufbaufilm der SBZ - Julian Blunk
Representations of a Modern Dictatorship? Max Lingner and the Reichsluftfahrtministerium - Matthew Philpotts
Industrial Design and Cultural Politics in the GDR 1950-1965 - Katharina Pfützner
From Narrative to Symbol: The Development of the Anti-Fascist Monument in the Early GDR - Leonie Beiersdorf
Queering the Antifascist State: Ravensbruck as a Site of Resistance - Dara Bryant
Mediations of Memory: Konrad Wolf's
Mama, ich lebe - Larson Powell
Das "Allgemein-Menschliche" und die "deutsche Kulturnation": Zum Zusammenhang von Kulturpolitik und Literaturwissenschaft in der DDR-Germanistik der siebziger und achtziger Jahre - Tim Reiß
Recalling the Goddess Pandora: Irmtraud Morgner's Utopian Appropriation of Goethean Poetics in
Amanda - Helen Finch
"A Romance with One's Own Fantasy": The Nostalgia of Exile in Anna segher's Mexico - Stacy Hartman
Zur Relation von Gattung, Erbe und asthetischem Diskurs in der DDR - Marianne Schwarz-Scherer
Socialist Realism and the Third German Art Exhibition 1953 - Heather E. Mathews
Continuities in Visual Culture in the GDR and the Break with Tradtions in the Late 1980s: Examples from the Leipziger Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst - Sophie A. Gerlach
Distinktionsstrategien im literarischen Feld und die Aktualisierung tabuisierter Traditionen in der selbst verlegten Literatur der 1980er Jahre - Carola Hähnel-Mesnard
