Este artículo examina la recepción internacional de la "Nueva Canción Latinoamericana" con un foco en la República Democrática Alemana. Mediante el concepto de la 'autenticidad' se analiza la ...recepción de una cultura musical del Otro que tuvo impacto en la construcción de una identidad nacional-patriótica e internacional-solidaria en la Alemania Oriental. Para lograr tal objetivo se lleva a cabo una introducción a la política cultural de aquel estado, se da una definición mencionando aspectos analíticos de 'autenticidad' y se evalúan fuentes primarias y secundarias provenientes del público y de la organización del "Festival des politischen Liedes" en Berlín, en el cual entre los años 70 hasta los 90 actuaron muchos artistas sudamericanos de la época. Así se ofrece un panorama de cómo se veía Sudamérica y su cultura y cómo eso podía servir para realizar una construcción de identidad en la Alemania Oriental.
In this article, I analyse Ulrich Plenzdorf's novel kein runter kein fern, an often-overlooked text critiquing the society of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the late 1970s that focuses ...primarily on the theme of disability. Plenzdorf's protagonist, a boy with a mild learning disability, is pressured to develop a masculine body to overcome his mental handicap. Analysing the story from a perspective based on Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies and Julia Hell's Post-Fascist Fantasies, I argue that Plenzdorf is showing the GDR as a militarized, masculine society, unable to deal with disability in a humane manner. His protagonist therefore has no other choice but to cope with his disability by becoming what he calls a 'panzermann', that means a man whose feelings are cut off with a tank-like body. Furthermore, by drawing on a rich collection of archival materials, I show how Plenzdorf's depiction of disability, masculinity, and GDR society caused a major literary scandal, and how he radicalized these topics in later adaptations. Reviewing this material that has not been published before, I argue that Plenzdorf widened his criticism during the Wende years and transformed his criticism of the GDR society to a criticism of the German society as a whole.
This ethnography studies two very different institutions in one eastern German state taking divergent approaches to the past. While government organizations reliably depict the GDR as a dictatorship, ...one major regional newspaper focuses on the experiences and concerns of its readers.
Images of the socialist city Meibauer, Jörg
Nordic journal of childLit aesthetics,
12/2021, Letnik:
12, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
This article explores the relationship between urban development, architecture, and propaganda in non-fiction books published in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Three books are analyzed in ...greater detail: 4 Wände und ein Dach. Ein Buch vom Bauen für Jungen und Mädchen (1964) by Bernhard Geyer and Rudolf Schultz-Debowski (Illus.), Das große Buch vom Bauen (1976) by Irene Henselmann and Hermann Henselmann, and Ein Dach über dem Kopf. Von alten und neuen Häusern (1983) by Irene Henselmann and Klaus Segner (Illus.). It transpires that these books mix information with propaganda, thus attempting to shape the child’s image of the socialist city.
Zeitung für Deutschland“? Kutzner, Maximilian
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte,
06/2021, Letnik:
69, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Die
(FAZ) firmiert bis heute als „Zeitung für Deutschland“. Das war der Anspruch ihrer Gründer. Doch die sich verstetigende Zweistaatlichkeit stellte den deutschlandpolitischen Kurs der FAZ vor ...Herausforderungen. Wie positionierte man sich zur Neuen Ostpolitik? Gelang es, die Zeitung als Impulsgeber auf diesem Politikfeld zu etablieren? Der Aufsatz beleuchtet innerredaktionelle Konflikte und externe Zuschreibungen von west- und ostdeutschen Akteuren gleichermaßen. Der Autor zeigt auf, in welchem Spannungsfeld sich die FAZ zwischen ihrer eigenen Linie und der Anerkennung deutschlandpolitischer Faktizität in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren bewegte. War man bereit, für die Verwirklichung der deutschen Einheit alte Grundätze aufzugeben?
This article examines how political time in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was shaped and contested by architectural preservation during that state's formative years. In particular, it ...investigates the role of historic preservationists in the GDR as 'time activists' who both contributed to and challenged the construction of an ideologically informed 'order of time'. It argues that preservationists in the GDR helped mould, solidify and reinforce ideas of history and time in the physical environments of East German cities, sometimes to the great frustration of the ruling Socialist Unity Party, but at other times in accordance with the party's general objectives.
Research on the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the 1980s shows a high level of congruence between conservative social policy deterring mothers from employment and traditional societal gender ...norms. In contrast, little is known about whether people in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) agreed with the socialist idea of continuous full-time maternal employment. Based on unexploited GDR data from 1984 and a description of contemporary social policy, this study examines attitudes towards maternal employment, whether they were related to individual preferences for work or children, and their congruence with the socialist policy. The same questions are examined for the FRG using data from 1982.
Results for the GDR indicate that one third of respondents rejected the socialist idea of maternal full-time employment, with individual work preferences being decisive for respondents’ assessments. In the FRG, there was a high degree of agreement with the gender norm of maternal non-employment, with this being dependent on individual preferences for children. These findings complement post-reunification evidence on East-West-differences in gender norms and provide insights into attitudes under Eastern European state socialism.
* This article belongs to a special issue on “Demographic Developments in Eastern and Western Europe Before and After the Transformation of Socialist Countries”.
In the last months of the Second World War, as the Red Army approached Berlin, the Wehrmacht suffered catastrophic losses, resulting in thousands of war graves on East German soil. In the aftermath ...of the war, the Soviet Occupation Zone (1945–9) and the German Democratic Republic (1949–90) committed to a socialist ‘politics of history’ which centred on the liberation of Germany by the Red Army, disowning the German fallen. This article, based on my PhD research and current British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, outlines how the central authorities of the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR managed the thousands of German Wehrmacht war burials on East German territory. I focus, in particular, on how Wehrmacht war burials came to constitute political and ideological liabilities, prompting concerns about their appropriations by the German Lutheran Church and West Germany. In doing so, I uncover a little-known yet highly significant dimension of the transition between the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic.
Since reunification in 1990, Prenzlauer Berg, located in the former East Berlin, has turned from a cheap and neglected area into a popular middle-class neighbourhood. The area's new character is ...reflected in its linguistic landscape. These days the signs of posh shops and trendy bars adorn its streets. But alternative views are noticeable too. Graffiti is present even on the most expensively refurbished buildings and residents put up slogans to protest against their flats being refurbished and sold to new owners. This case study of the changing graphic environment of Prenzlauer Berg shows that, despite the strong influence of commercial discourses, the public space remains an area of contestation between civil society, private businesses and the state. The particular approach to linguistic landscape I developed combines textual and visual analysis with interviews with sign producers. This has enabled me to show how the linguistic landscape both reflects as well as shapes social change and urban development in Berlin since reunification. Adapted from the source document.
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