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Berlin divided city, 1945-1989 / edited by Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake

Conference Author
German Studies Workshop (2nd : 2008 : University of Texas at Austin)
Published
New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Broadbent, Philip, 1972-, Hake, Sabine, 1956-, and University of Texas at Austin
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Contents
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments Introduction ; Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake PART I: COLD WAR BEGINNINGS Chapter 1. Life Among the Ruins: Sex, Space, and Subculture in Zero Hour Berlin; Jennifer Evans Chapter 2. The Propagandistic Role of Modern Art in Postwar Berlin; Maike Steinkamp Chapter 3. Back to the Future: New Music's Revival and Redefinition in Occupied Berlin; Elizabeth Janik Chapter 4. The Nylon Curtain: Architectural Unification in Divided Berlin; Greg Castillo Chapter 5. Mediascape and Soundscape: Two Landscapes of Modernity in Cold War Berlin; Heiner Stahl PART II: EAST BERLIN,, THE SOCIALIST CAPITAL Chapter 6. Painting the Berlin Wall in Leipzig: The Politics of Art in 1960s East Germany; April Eisman Chapter 7. "You Have to Draw a Line Somewhere": Tropes of Division in DEFA Films from the early 1960s; Mariana Ivanova Chapter 8. Building the East German Television Tower; Heather Gumbert Chapter 9. Transparency in Divided Berlin: The Palace of the Republic; Deborah Ascher Barnstone PART III: WEST BERLIN, SHOWCASE OF THE WEST Chapter 10. "I Still Have a Suitcase in Berlin": Hildegard Knef's Cold War Movies; Ulrich Bach Chapter 11. Benno Ohnesorg, Rudi Dutschke,, and And the Student Movement in West Berlin: Critical Reflections after Forty Years; David Barclay Chapter 12. Berlin and Post-Meinhof Feminism: Yvonne Rainer's Journeys from Berlin/1971 ; Claudia Mesch Chapter 13. Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin as a Cold War Project; Paul Jaskot Chapter 14. Beyond the Berlin Myth: the Local, the Global and IBA 87; Emily Pugh PART IV: BERLIN AFTER UNIFICATION: LOOKING BACK AND BEYOND Chapter 15. Stereographic City: Berlin Photography in the Wende Era; Miriam Paeslack Chapter 16. Divided City, Divided Heaven? Berlin Border Crossings in Post-WendeFiction; Lyn Marven Chapter 17. Interview with Barbara Hoidn Notes on Contributors; Index.
Summary
A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin's cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decades preceding reunification and thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlin's identities. German historians, art historians, architectural historians, and literary and cultural studies scholars explore the divisions and antagonisms that defined East and West Berlin; and by t.
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ISBN
9781845456573 (electronic bk.)
1845456572 (electronic bk.)
9781845457556 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
1845457552 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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