Victoria Knebel

Preserve and Rebuild

Dresden during the Transformations of 1989-1990. Architecture, Citizens Initiatives and Local Identities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The reunification of Germany in 1990 has prompted far-reaching debates about German identity, history and tradition. One framework for these debates is provided by the extensive urban development and building activities which have commenced in Eastern Germany since 1990. This ethnographic case study of post-communist Dresden explores the complex symbolic meanings of such projects as the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche, Dresden's quarrels with the UNESCO about a new Elbe bridge, and many others. It traces a history of civic engagement from the time of the GDR through to the present of reunified Germany, and demonstrates the built environment's importance for identity construction in periods of social transformation.

Produktdetails

• Gesellschaften und Staaten im Epochenwandel / Societies and States in Transformation 13
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 55954
• Seitenzahl: 203
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 146mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9783631559543
• ISBN-10: 3631559542
• Artikelnr.: 27540263

Autorenporträt

The Author: Victoria Knebel, born in Dresden, studied Literature and Indology in Halle and Leipzig. Since 2000 she was a Sociology postgraduate at the University of Edinburgh, where she submitted this book as a Ph.D. thesis in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Buildings and Social Power - Preservationism and Oppositional Identities in the GDR - 1989: Political Transformations and the Symbol Frauenkirche - The Frauenkirche as «Citizens Church»: Competing Civil Societies in Reunified Germany - Nostalgia as Empowerment.