Memorializing the GDR

Monuments and Memory after 1989

Memorializing the GDR
Anna Saunders
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h229 x 152mm - 382pg
16 Jun 2020 UK
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9781789208016
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Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, political, and historical contexts. Emphasizing the interrelationship of built environment, memory and identity, it brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history, as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of identity.
"All in all, Saunders makes a firm contribution to the field by showing how monuments can be important sites for democratic engagement around which multiple narratives can converge. Her wide-ranging monograph provides a needed update of the classic question about the relationship between monuments and memory and is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the memory of the GDR. Often poignant, sometimes playful, and occasionally provocative, the cases presented here ultimately tell of a grappling with the recent past that is, in its own way, one of the unheralded success stories of unification." H-Soz-Kult
Anna Saunders is a Senior Lecturer in German at the School of Modern Languages, Bangor University, Wales. Her publications include the monograph Honecker's Children: Youth and Patriotism in Eastern Germany (2007) and the collection Remembering and Rethinking the GDR: Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities (2013, coedited with Debbie Pinfold).
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781789208016
Published: 16 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 382

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