Titlebook: Remembering the German Democratic Republic; Divided Memory in a David Clarke (Senior Lecturer),Ute W?lfel (Lecture Book 2011 Palgrave Macm

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Representations of the Everyday and the Making of Memory: GDR History and MuseumsBerlin airport and even before collecting one’s luggage, one is faced with an invitation to a ‘GDR museum’. This exhibition, shown in the centre of the capital, reports more than one-and-a-half million visitors during the last five years (www.ddr-museum.de, last accessed 2 August 2011). Another exhi

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Reinterpreting the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park after 1990Wall, the storming of the . Headquarters and the closure of the Palace of the Republic serve as lasting markers leading to the East German government’s terminus. Yet, other potentially contentious landmarks in Berlin remained untouched. The Soviet War Memorial in eastern Berlin’s Treptower Park, for

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Did Communists Have Better Sex? Sex and the Body in German Unificationis, according to the newspaper, was a significant event in the dying days of the GDR, a country whose citizens ‘were not allowed to show themselves naked or see the naked bodies of others, except at the nudist beach’. ‘The workers and peasants’, the article went on, ‘could only practise voyeurism un

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‘The Era Has Passed, But it’s Nice to Remember’: Eastern Identifications with the GDR Past and Unifi literature on post-unification Germany, as demonstrated throughout this volume. This chapter analyses one of the key approaches among German academics, who tend to problematize east Germanness under the assumption that it challenges a so-called German identity. In 2000, ten years after unification,