Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the “New Berlin” is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany’s largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.
Table of Content
Illustrations
Introduction
Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek
PART I: CONTESTING GENTRIFICATION: SUBCULTURE TO MAINSTREAM
Chapter 1. Cultural History of Post-Wall Berlin: From Utopian Longing to Nostalgia for Babylon
Katrina Sark
Chapter 2. Taking a Walk on the Wild Side: Berlin and Christiane F.’s Second Life
Susan Ingram
Chapter 3. Representations and Interpretations of “The New Berlin” in Contemporary German Comics
Lynn Marie Kutch
PART II: SPACES, MONUMENTS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF HISTORY
Chapter 4. Reconfiguring the Spaces of the “Creative Class” in Contemporary Berlin
Simon Ward
Chapter 5. Negotiating Cold War Legacies: The Discursive Ambiguity of Berlin’s Memory Sites
Stefanie Eisenhuth and Scott H. Krause
Chapter 6. Branding the New Germany—The Brandenburg Gate and a New Kind of German Historical Amnesia
Sarah Pogoda and Rüdiger Traxler
Chapter 7. Disappearing History: Challenges of Imagining Berlin after 1989
Ayse N. Erek and Eszter Gantner
PART III: RE-IMAGINING INTEGRATION
Chapter 8. Governing through “Ethnic Entrepreneurship”
Bariş Ülker
Chapter 9. Resisting Integration: Neukölln Artist Responses to Integration Politics
Johanna Schuster-Craig
Chapter 10. The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary Berlin
Hila Amit
Chapter 11. Berlin’s International Literature Festival: Globalizing the Bildungsbürger
Marike Janzen
PART IV: BERLIN MEMORYSCAPES OF THE PRESENT
Chapter 12. Transnational Cityscapes: Tracking Turkish-German Hi/Stories in Postwar Berlin
Christiane Steckenbiller
Chapter 13. Israeli Jews in the New Berlin: From Shoah Memories to Middle Eastern Encounters
Hadas Cohen and Dani Kranz
Chapter 14. Through the Eyes of Angels and Vampires: Berlin Ruins in Wings of Desire and We Are the Night
Peter Gölz
Chapter 15. The Uncanny City: Berlin in International Film
Andre Schütze
Index
About the author
Jennifer Ruth Hosek is Associate Professor of German at Queen’s University, affiliated with Film, Gender, and Cultural Studies. Her scholarly projects include the monograph Sun, Sex, and Socialism: Cuba in the German Imaginary, the documentary Rodando en La Habana: Bicycle Stories, articles on a range of topics, and the telecollaborative learning platform www.linguaelive.ca.
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