1st Edition
Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012
By Simon Ward
Copyright 2016
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
As sites of continual change and transformation, cities are fundamentally forgetful places. Yet at the same time, urban areas are also homes to museums and archives that collect and exhibit the past-a key cultural, political, and economic activity. This book looks at that paradox through the example of Berlin to see how the city has responded to challenges to memory created by rapid changes in... Read more
Introduction: Berlin and the question of 'urban memory' Chapter One: Remembering the 'Murdered City': Berlin, West and East, 1957-1974 Chapter Two: Place Memory Work in East and West Berlin 1975-1983 Chapter Three: The Remembered City on Display 1983-1994 Chapter Four: In Search of a City: Urban Memory in Unified Berlin 1994-2009 Conclusion: The Collectives of Contemporary Urban Memory, 2012.
Biography
Dr Simon Ward is Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at Durham University, where he teaches German literature and visual culture.
