Fair-Schulz / Kessler East German Historians since Reunification

A Discipline Transformed
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6538-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Surveys how reunification in 1990 impacted historical scholarship in the former East Germany.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fair-Schulz, Axel

Kessler, Mario

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Axel Fair-Schulz and Mario Kessler

1. A Different Starting Point, a Different End: East and West German Historiography After 1945
Mario Kessler

2. Where Did Historical Studies in the German Democratic Republic Stand at the Eve of Unification?
Georg G. Iggers

3. The Revenge of the Krupps? Reflections on the End of GDR Historiography
William A. Pelz

4. “Once Upon a Time.”: Losses in Scholarly Competence as a Result of German Unification
Helmut Meier

5. German Unification and the Debate of the West German Social Sciences
Stefan Bollinger

6. Anticommunist Purge or Democratic Renewal? The Transformation of the Humboldt University, 1985–2000
Konrad H. Jarausch

7. Research on Fascism and Antifascism in the GDR: A Retrospective
Kurt Pätzold

8. Painful Transition and New Research on the History of Political Parties in Germany
Manfred Weissbecker

9. Research on Conservatism in Jena: The Beginning and the End of an Interdisciplinary Research Project
Ludwig Elm

10. The Dissolution of East German Economic History at the Economic University in Berlin-Karlshorst: A Typical Anschluss Procedure
Jörg Roesler

11. The Dissolution of the Institute for Economic History at the Academy of Sciences
Axel Fair-Schulz

12. Dismantling the GDR’s Historical Scholarship: A Case Study of the University of Leipzig
Werner Röhr

13. From “Imperialist Class Enemy” to “Partners in Leadership” in 365 Days? East German American Studies Since 1989
Rainer Schnoor

14. Handling GDR Colonial Historiography
Ulrich van der Heyden

15. Obscuring East Germany: The Phantom Menace of East Germany to Social Scientific Understanding of
Post-Reunified Germany
Marcus Aurin

Conclusion: A Note on Research Directions and Literature
Axel Fair-Schulz and Mario Kessler

Appendix: Appeal from University Professors and Former German and Central European Refugees, from Frankfurter Rundschau, September 11, 2002

Contributors
Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Axel Fair-Schulz is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Mario Kessler is Associate Professor at the Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany. Together, they are the editors of German Scholars in Exile: New Studies in Intellectual History.