344 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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The collapse of the German Democratic Republic prompted the East Germans to confront their personal, cultural and international past. This study of the 'Wende' - the turn of events in 1989 - is based on ethnographic and anthropological research conducted in the early 1990s. Liz Ten Dyke has developed a finely nuanced portrait of the city and its residents as they were caught up in the economic,... Read more
Introduction. Chapter One: Working Through the Past in Germany, German History in Germany, The Post-War Period The Historikerstreit, History in the German Democratic Republic, History and Memory in the Unified Germany, Ethnographic Excursion: Two Murders, Two Demonstrations. Chapter Two: Dresden, Dresden After the Wende, Replendent Dresden Dresden's Other Histories, The Bombing of Dresden, Dresden After 1945, Ethnographic Excursion: Frau Esperanto. Chapter Three: The Ethnographic Present, Daily Life After the Wende, Respondents Narratives, Ethnographic Excursion: The Kaffeefahrt. Chapter Four: Remembering Daily Life in the GDR, Family, Education and Employment, Politics of Daily Life, Respondents Narratives, Ethnographic Excursion: Herr Beck's Report. Chapter Five: The Wende, Causes of the Wende, The Wende in Dresden, Respondents Narratives. Chapter Six: Paradoxes and Contradictions of Memory and History, Respondents Narratives. Epilogue: 1999.
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Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke
