Bloom and Bust

Urban Landscapes in the East since German Reunification
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-490-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: Space and Place

More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East — and how the filling of previous absences and the absence of previous presence — creates the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and historical narration and preservation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cliver, Gwyneth

Smith-Prei, Carrie

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regionalgeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Gwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-Prei

PART I: GROUNDWORK

Chapter 1. Preserving the Past Before and After the Wende: A Case Study of Quedlinburg

Heike Alberts

Chapter 2. No Man’s Land: Fiction and Reality in Buddy Giovinazzo’s Potsdamer Platz

Christopher Jones



PART II: PROJECTIONS

Chapter 3. Cinematic Reflections of Germany’s Postunification Woes: Architecture and Urban Space of Frankfurt (Oder) in Halbe Treppe, Lichter, and Kombat Sechzehn

Sebastian Heiduschke

Chapter 4. Reclaiming the Thuringian Tuscany: The Touristic Appeal of Bad Sulza and its Toskana Therme

Erika Nelson

Chapter 5. Berlin through the Lens: Space and (National) Identity in the Postunification Capital

Susanna Miller, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Tamara Nadolny, Heidi Manicke, Flavia Zaka, Trevor Blakeney, and Jude Hirman

Chapter 6. The Amputated City: The Voids of Hoyerswerda

Gwyneth Cliver

PART III: THEORIES

Chapter 7. Sounding out Erfurt: Does the Song Remain the Same?

Heiner Stahl

Chapter 8. Restoration and Redemption: Defending Kultur and Heimat in Eisenach’s Cityscape

Jason James

Chapter 9. The Bauwerk in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility: Historical Reconstruction, Pious Modernism, and Dresden’s “süße Krankheit”

Rob McFarland with Elizabeth Guthrie



Afterword

Rolf J. Goebel



Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cliver, Gwyneth
Gwyneth Cliver is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She completed her PhD in 2008 from Washington University in St Louis and has also taught at Guilford College in North Carolina and Ball State University. Her research includes the integration of mathematics and mathematical philosophy in the writings of Robert Musil and Hermann Broch.

Smith-Prei, Carrie
Carrie Smith-Prei is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Alberta and holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realism in the German Sixties (U of Toronto P, 2013), co-editor of a special issue on lesbian representations (Germanistik in Ireland, 2010), and is co-founder of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.

Carrie Smith-Prei is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Alberta and holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realism in the German Sixties (U of Toronto P, 2013), co-editor of a special issue on lesbian representations (Germanistik in Ireland, 2010), and is co-founder of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.