Dirk Verheyen

United City, Divided Memories?

Cold War Legacies in Contemporary Berlin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

United City, Divided Memories? focuses on the basic question of how Berlin today deals with three specific Cold War era legacies: the presence of the four Great Powers, the East German Stasi, and the Berlin Wall. Dirk Verheyen studies monuments, museums, and memorial sites as illustrations of Berlin's struggle to craft an effective shared identity that ties together its western and eastern halves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780739118405
• ISBN-10: 0739118404
• Artikelnr.: 28523526

Autorenporträt

Dirk Verheyen is the academic director of the FU-BEST (Berlin European Studies) Program at Freie Universität Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 A City and a Nation Between Memory and Future Chapter 2 Capturing
Memory and Crafting Identity Part 3 Victors and Adversaries: The Legacy of
the Great Powers Chapter 4 Occupation, Confrontation, Departure: the Great
Powers in Postwar Berlin Chapter 5 Soviet Traces Chapter 6 The Western
Allies: A Vanishing Legacy? Chapter 7 Great Powers on Display: A Brief Tale
of Two Museums Part 8 Beyond Files and Trials: Public Remembrance and the
Legacy of the Stasi Chapter 9 Bureaucratic Shield and Repressive Sword:
Rise and Demise of the Stasi Chapter 10 Tyrannical Banality on Display: the
"Stasi Museum" Chapter 11 The Commemoration of Persecution in
Hohenschönhausen Chapter 12 Coming to Terms with the "Second" German
Dictatorship Part 13 The Berlin Wall: Meaning and Memory Chapter 14
Monumental Schizophrenia: The Berlin Wall and Concrete Closure Chapter 15
Commemorating a Vanishing Monument Chapter 16 Checkpoint and Watchtower
Museums Chapter 17 Painting and Tracing the Wall