The German wall : fallout in Europe
When the Berlin Wall opened unexpectedly on November 9, 1989, it marked a rupture of global significance. For Germany's national history the event has become Ơ₆ next to the defeat of 1945 ₆ the most significant date in collective memory. For Cold War Europe the Berlin Wall represented a symbol of border crisis and of difference and division. This interdisciplinary volume addresses multiple consequences of the fall of the Wall: looking back at the physical barrier, its demise, and how it has been mediated in film and television; detailing the processes of restoring and revitalizing the city and the country that had been torn asunder; recognizing the new challenges of integrating socially and politically old and new minorities; and identifying how a new European identity may emerge 'after the Wall.' The anthology is targeted at scholars and advanced students in history, German studies, sociology, art history, and related fields
History
1 online resource
9780230118577, 9781349294312, 0230118577, 1349294314
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PART I: RE-VIEWING THE BERLIN WALL *€Germany 1989: A New Type of Revolution? /€Konrad H. Jarausch *€The Different Aesthetics of the Berlin Wall /€Olaf Briese *€Politics, Culture, and Media before and after the Berlin Wall /€Henning Wrage *€PART II: RE-NEWING BERLIN IN UNIFIED GERMANY€* Re-Capitalizing Berlin /€Janet Ward *€Interim Use at a Former Death Strip?: Art, Politics, and Urbanism at Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum /€Karen E. Till *€Jugendweihe: Revitalizing a Socialist Coming-of-Age Ceremony in Unified Berlin /€Barbara Wolbert * PART III: RE-SETTLING BERLIN'S OTHERS *€Neither Eastern nor Welcome: The Confused Lives of Berlin's Balkan Migrants, 1950-2000 /€Isa Blumi *€Class of 1989: Who Made Good and Who Dropped Out of German History?: Postmigrant Documentary Theater in Berlin /€Katrin Sieg * PART IV: RE-NEGOTIATING EUROPE'S CENTER *€On Italian Bridges: Navigating Rocks and Hard Places in Post-Wall Europe /€Lina Insana *€Breaking Down the Walls: The European Library Project /€B. Venkat Mani