Volume 3
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, volume 3 redirects current debates on memory and tradition, opening up fresh perspectives on the cultural history of the GDR,
exploring how the nation's cultural discourses entered into a productive but often problematic dialogue with the values of the past and with the German cultural inheritance.
Topics include the compositional engagement with musical heritage; industrial design and cultural politics; the establishment of antifascist monuments and their use as sites of resistance; constructions of a cultural heritage in architecture; the influence of cultural politics on literary scholarship; continuities and breaks with tradition in visual and literary culture; and engagement with the past in the works of Konrad Wolf, Irmtraud Morgner, and Anna Seghers.
Contributors
- Leonie Beiersdorf
- Julian Blunk
- Dara Bryant
- Helen Finch
- Carola Hähnel-Mesnard
- Stacy Hartman
- Elaine Kelly
- Heather Mathews
- Katharina Pfützner
- Matthew Philpotts
- Larson Powell
- Tim Rei
- Marianne Schwarz-Scherer
- Laura Silverberg
Matthew Philpotts is Lecturer in German at the University of Manchester, and Sabine Rolle is Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.
Publication details
First Published: 01 Oct 2009
13 Digit ISBN: 9781571133625
Pages: 258
Size: 9 x 6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Camden House
This article was published on May 13, 2011