Narratives in the Making

Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-302-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Despite the three decades that have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the historical narrative of East Germany is hardly fixed in public memory, as German society continues to grapple with the legacies of the Cold War. This fascinating ethnography looks at two very different types of local institutions in one eastern German state that take divergent approaches to those legacies: while publicly funded organizations reliably cast the GDR as a dictatorship, a main regional newspaper offers a more ambivalent perspective colored by the experiences and concerns of its readers. As author Anselma Gallinat shows, such memory work—initially undertaken after fundamental regime change—inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy in the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gallinat, Anselma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Questions of Discourse, Narrative and Memory after Fundamental Regime-Change

Chapter 1. Remembering East Germany in the United Nation – The Second German Dictatorship and Dual History

Chapter 2. Institutions that Write History – The Working Group Aufarbeitung and the Daily Paper Introduced

Chapter 3. Debating the Past at the Daily Paper – The East German Border Regime

Chapter 4. Ordering Memory for Government – Everyday Life in East Germany

Chapter 5. What Makes an Aufarbeiter, a Journalist?

Chapter 6. Democracy in Trouble – Remembering to Safeguard the Future

Chapter 7. Memory for Citizenship – the Trouble with Democracy

Concluding Remarks

Glossary                                

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Gallinat, Anselma
Anselma Gallinat is a Reader in Social Anthropology at Newcastle University. She is the co-editor of The Ethnographic Self as Resource with Peter Collins (Berghahn 2013) and the author of numerous articles, which have appeared in Identities, Social Anthropology, and Ethnos, among others.