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Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Author : Karin Bauer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785337211
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin written by Karin Bauer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the “New Berlin” is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany’s largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.

Berlin in the Twentieth Century

Author : Andrew Webber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521895723
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Berlin in the Twentieth Century written by Andrew Webber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original study of Berlin as a central theme in literature and film, reflecting its troubled but creative past.

Topographies of Class

Author : Sabine Hake
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472050389
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Topographies of Class written by Sabine Hake and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural projects; debates; and representations in literature, photography, and film played a key role in establishing the terms under which contemporaries made sense of the rise of white-collar society. Focusing on the so-called stabilization period, Topographies of Class maps out complex relationships between modern architecture and mass society, from Martin Wagner's planning initiatives and Erich Mendelsohn's functionalist buildings, to the most famous Berlin texts of the period, Alfred Döblin's city novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) and Walter Ruttmann's city film Berlin, Symphony of the Big City (1927). Hake draws on critical, philosophical, literary, photographic, and filmic texts to reconstruct the urban imagination at a key point in the history of German modernity, making this the first study---in English or German---to take an interdisciplinary approach to the rich architectural culture of Weimar Berlin. Sabine Hake is Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of numerous books, including German National Cinema and Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Cover art: Construction of the Karstadt Department Store at Hermannplatz, Berlin-Neukölln. Courtesy Bildarchiv Preeussischer Kulturbesitz / Art Resource, NY

The New Berlin

Author : Karen E. Till
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452905851
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The New Berlin written by Karen E. Till and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative exploration of German memory, national identity, and modernity embodied in the public spaces of the new capital.

Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin

Author : Emily Pugh
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822979578
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Book Synopsis Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin by : Emily Pugh

Download or read book Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin written by Emily Pugh and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 13, 1961, under the cover of darkness, East German authorities sealed the border between East and West Berlin using a hastily constructed barbed wire fence. Over the next twenty-eight years of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall grew to become an ever-present physical and psychological divider in this capital city and a powerful symbol of Cold War tensions. Similarly, stark polarities arose in nearly every aspect of public and private life, including the built environment. In Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin Emily Pugh provides an original comparative analysis of selected works of architecture and urban planning in both halves of Berlin during the Wall era, revealing the importance of these structures to the formation of political, cultural, and social identities. Pugh uncovers the roles played by organizations such as the Foundation for Prussian Cultural Heritage and the Building Academy in conveying the political narrative of their respective states through constructed spaces. She also provides an overview of earlier notable architectural works, to show the precursors for design aesthetics in Berlin at large, and considers projects in the post-Wall period, to demonstrate the ongoing effects of the Cold War. Overall, Pugh offers a compelling case study of a divided city poised between powerful contending political and ideological forces, and she highlights the effort expended by each side to influence public opinion in Europe and around the World through the manipulation of the built environment.

Beyond the Land

Author : Melissa Weininger
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814350615
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Land written by Melissa Weininger and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-evaluation of the meaning and function of diaspora in contemporary Israeli culture.

Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989

Author : Philip Broadbent
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845456572
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989 written by Philip Broadbent and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 tracing the little studied similarities and extensive exchanges that occurred despite the presence of the Berlin Wall, they present an indispensible study on the politics and culture of the Cold War.

Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany

Author : Jay Howard Geller
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978800738
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany written by Jay Howard Geller and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, 100,000 Jews live in Germany. Their community is diverse and vibrant, and their mere presence in Germany is symbolically important. In Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany, scholars of German-Jewish history, literature, film, television, and sociology illuminate important aspects of Jewish life in Germany from 1949 to the present day. In West Germany, the development of representative bodies and research institutions reflected a desire to set down roots, despite criticism from Jewish leaders in Israel and the Diaspora. In communist East Germany, some leftist Jewish intellectuals played a prominent role in society, and their experience reflected the regime’s fraught relationship with Jewry. Since 1990, the growth of the Jewish community through immigration from the former Soviet Union and Israel have both brought heightened visibility in society and challenged preexisting notions of Jewish identity in the former “land of the perpetrators.”

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030334287
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture written by Victoria Aarons and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation. The chapters consider diverse generational perspectives—survivor writing, second and third generation—and genres—memoirs, poetry, novels, graphic narratives, films, video-testimonies, and other forms of literary and cultural expression. In turn, these perspectives create interactions among generations, genres, temporalities, and cultural contexts. The volume also participates in the ongoing project of responding to and talking through moments of rupture and incompletion that represent an opportunity to contribute to the making of meaning through the continuation of narratives of the past. As such, the chapters in this volume pose options for reading Holocaust texts, offering openings for further discussion and exploration. The inquiring body of interpretive scholarship responding to the Shoah becomes itself a story, a narrative that materially extends our inquiry into that history.

Branding Berlin

Author : Katrina Sark
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000914216
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Branding Berlin written by Katrina Sark and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin. Branding Berlin: From Division to the Cultural Capital of Europe presents a cultural analysis of Berlin’s cultural production, including literature, film, memoirs and non-fiction works, art, media, urban branding campaigns, and cultural diversity initiatives put forth by the Berlin Senate, and allows readers to understand the various changes that transformed the formerly divided city of voids into a hip cultural capital. The book examines Berlin’s branding, urban-economic development, and its search for a post-Wall identity by focusing on manifestations of nostalgic longing in documentary films and other cultural products. Building on the sociological research of urban branding and linking it with an interpretive analysis of cultural products generated in Berlin during that time, the author examines the intersections and tensions between the nostalgic views of the past and the branded images of Berlin’s present and future. This insightful and innovative work will interest scholars and students of cultural and media studies, branding and advertising, urban communication, film studies, visual culture, tourism, and cultural memory.

Hidden Berlin

Author : Reinhard Zachau
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1647930111
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Berlin written by Reinhard Zachau and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden Berlin brings to life the city's tumultuous history by tracing the evolution of six iconic locations: the reconstructed City Palace, the Berlin Wall, the Nazi Olympic Stadium, Potsdamer Platz, the Brandenburg Gate, and the recreated Nikolaiviertel. In exploring each of these areas, Hidden Berlin illustrates how Berlin has become one of Europe's most complex and dynamic cities. Richly illustrated with images and maps, the volume engages readers through detailed timelines and activities. Additional locations of interest and a bibliography present opportunities for readers to explore on their own. A companion website provides a host of internet-based activities, suggestions for readings, and supplementary resources for each chapter: www.hiddenberlinbook.wordpress.com. Hidden Berlin is an engaging volume for courses on the culture of Berlin or modern Germany, students studying abroad, and visitors to the city who want an enlightened experience.

Heritage under Socialism

Author : Eszter Gantner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805393790
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Heritage under Socialism written by Eszter Gantner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was heritage understood and implemented in European socialist states after World War II? By exploring national and regional specificities within the broader context of internationalization, this volume enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies through a series of fascinating case studies. Its transnational approach highlights the socialist world’s diverse interpretations of heritage and the ways in which they have shaped the trajectories of present-day preservation practices.

Historical Dictionary of Berlin

Author : Ulrike Zitzlsperger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153812422X
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Berlin written by Ulrike Zitzlsperger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II Berlin became one of the playgrounds of the Cold War; the Berlin Wall made the division between East and West, between ‘capitalism’ and ‘communism’ in 1961 highly visible, though it did remove Berlin from front-line politics. East and West Berlin had turned into shop-windows of ideologies – West Berlin representing the lure of a market economy, East Berlin the promise of socialism. It is, then, fitting that the fall of the Wall in 1989 awarded Berlin such a prominent role. It was here that the development after Reunification of East and West became a closely observed event – and, well beyond Germany, Berlin appeared to represent fundamental developments throughout Europe at the time. Today, Berlin is the capital of reunified Germany and therefore one of the key political players in the European Union (EU) and it’s now a desirable destination for young entrepreneurs. The Historical Dictionary of Berlin contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, institutions, and events. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Berlin.

Writing the New Berlin

Author : Katharina Gerstenberger
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571133816
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Writing the New Berlin written by Katharina Gerstenberger and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cold War Berlin

Author : Scott H. Krause
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755602773
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Berlin written by Scott H. Krause and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide range of transatlantic contributors addresses Berlin as a global focal point of the Cold War, and also assess the geopolitical peculiarity of the city and how citizens dealt with it in everyday life. They explore not just the implications of division, but also the continuing entanglements and mutual perceptions which resulted from Berlin's unique status. An essential contribution to the study of Berlin in the 20th century, and the effects - global and local - of the Cold War on a city.

Re-envisioning Jewish Identities

Author : Efraim Sicher
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004462252
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Re-envisioning Jewish Identities written by Efraim Sicher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study combines readings of contemporary literature, art, and performance to explore the diverse and complex directions of contemporary Jewish culture in Israel and the diaspora.

21st-Century British Gothic

Author : Emily Horton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350286583
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book 21st-Century British Gothic written by Emily Horton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncanny work to illuminate the insecure, uneven and precarious experience of 21st-century life. Reading contemporary works of Gothic fiction by Helen Oyeyemi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sarah Moss, Patrick McGrath and M.R. Carey alongside writers not previously grouped under this umbrella, including Brian Chikwava, Chloe Aridjis and Mohsin Hamid, Horton illuminates the way the Gothic has been engaged and reread by contemporary writers to address the cultural anxieties invoked living under neocolonial and neoliberal governance, including terrorism, migration, homelessness, racism, and climate change. Marshalling new modes of diasporic and cross-disciplinary critical theory concerned with the violent dimensions of contemporary life, this book sets the Gothic aesthetics in such works as White is for Witching, Double Vision, Never Let Me Go, The Wasted Vigil and Ghost Wall against a backdrop of key events in the 21st-century. Drawing connections between moments of anxiety, such as 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, ecological disaster, the refugee crisis, Brexit, the pandemic, and the Gothic, Horton demonstrates how British literature mediates transnational experiences of trauma and horror, while also addressing local and national insecurities and preoccupations. As a result, 21st-Century British Gothic can tests geographical, psychological, cultural, and aesthetic borders to expose an often spectralised experience of human and planetary vulnerability and speaks back against the brutality of global capitalism.