This interdisciplinary volume addresses the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the revitalizing effect it had on Germany to the new challenges of integrating socially and politically old and new minorities, and forming a new European identity. It also considers how the fall was represented by the media.
Tabella dei contenuti
PART I: RE-VIEWING THE BERLIN WALL Germany 1989: A New Type of Revolution?; K.H.Jarausch The Different Aesthetics of the Berlin Wall; O.Briese Politics, Culture, and Media before and after the Berlin Wall; H.Wrage PART II: RE-NEWING BERLIN IN UNIFIED GERMANY Re-Capitalizing Berlin; J.Ward Interim Use at a Former Death Strip?: Art, Politics, and Urbanism at Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum; K.E.Till Jugendweihe: Revitalizing a Socialist Coming-of-Age Ceremony in Unified Berlin; B.Wolbert PART III: RE-SETTLING BERLIN’S OTHERS Neither Eastern nor Welcome: The Confused Lives of Berlin’s Balkan Migrants, 1950-2000; I.Blumi Class of 1989: Who Made Good and Who Dropped Out of German History?: Postmigrant Documentary Theater in Berlin; K.Sieg PART IV: RE-NEGOTIATING EUROPE’S CENTER On Italian Bridges: Navigating Rocks and Hard Places in Post-Wall Europe; L.Insana Breaking Down the Walls: The European Library Project; B.Venkat Mani
Circa l’autore
MARC SILBERMAN Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
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