Studies in GDR Culture and Society
3 primary works • 10 total works
Book 6
The fourteen papers collected in this volume cover topics such as the measurements of GDR economic performance, GDR society's perception of the United States, pseudo-Marxism in the GDR and Eastern Europe, work and science and technology progress in the GDR, social and cultural changes in lives of GDR women, and male and female identities in recent GDR literature. Co-published with the International Symposium on the German Democratic Republic.
Book 7
The theme of this symposium was 'The GDR Today and Tomorrow.' Topics included in the eighteen papers comprising this volume are the ambivalence of progress, the situation of minorities, nation-building and national identity, and methods and goals of socialization. Co-published with the Symposium on the German Democratic Republic.
Book 8
The general theme of this volume is Alltag in the GDR, and a special section is devoted to Berlin in commemoration of the 750th anniversary of the city's founding. Other seminar topics include regional differences in the GDR and its international environment, methodology, and literature and aesthetics. Some thirty papers were given by sociologists, political scientists, Germanists, film critics and others in combined sections. Co-published by the Symposium on the German Democratic Republic.
Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Special Position of Young, Left-wing GDR Intellectuals in the Former Eastern Bloc, Jan Faktor; Underground Journals in and around Leipzig in the 1980s, Jacques Poumet; Pop Music in the GDR between Conformity and Resistance, Peter Wicke; "Nuancen und Zwischentne" versus "muskelprotzende Prosa": Autobiography and the Project of Explaining "How it Was" in the GDR, Roger Woods; Die ostdeutschen Schriftsteller auf der Suche nach einem neuen Selbstverstandnis, Gnter Erbe; In the Shadow of the Rainbow: On Christophe Hein's Exekution eines Kalbes and Christa Wolf's Auf dem Weg nach Tabou, Christiane Zehl Romero; Apocalypse Now? Reading Volker Braun's Bhmen am Meer, Theodore Fiedler; Das Literatursystem der DDR. Kontexte und Voraussetzungen einer neuen Literaturgeschichte, Ulrich Meyszies; Buchenwald: Symbol and Metaphor for the Changing Political Culture of East Germany, David A. Hackett; East Goes West, Annette Simon; Concepts of Democracy of East and West German Politicians, Virginia Penrose; The Round Table Model: Reflections on a Political Experiment, Lothar Probst; The Heilmann Family: Social Restructuring and the Potential for Family Conflict in East Germany, A Sketch, Michael Hofmann; The Renaissance of East German Group Awareness since Unification, Thomas Koch; TSS Press in the New L0/00nder, John Sandford; The Treatment of Problems of Integration in Some Recent Works by Authors from the Former GDR, Nancy A. Lauckner; German Unification and the Sorb Minority, Horst Freyhofer; Contributors to the Volume.
The End of the GDR and the Problems of Integration 11/12
by Margy Gerber and Roger Woods
Published 8 February 1993
The GDR's disappearance as a separate state prompted discussion of what, if anything, might remain as its substance. It is clear that East and West Germans are experiencing unification completely differently. Whereas West Germans see it primarily as an economic burden, East Germans understand it as a process which, as public opinion surveys confirm, brings long-term hope but short-term disorientation.
The dialogue between East and West is evident in several of the essays included in this volume, which contains revised versions of papers on GDR culture and society given at the fourteenth New Hampshire Symposium on the German Democratic Republic. The general topic of the Symposium was dimensions of change in the GDR. Unique to the meetings were the interdisciplinary approach dealing with technological change, social theory and changing social values, the political and economic implications of change in the USSR and Eastern Europe, new issues in youth culture and youth policy, and current trends in literature and cultural theory. These articles by both literary scholars and social scientists will be of interest to students of the GDR and Eastern Europe. Co-published with the International Symposium on the German Democratic Republic.
The papers collected in this highly important volume were read at the Symposium held in June of 1989. The papers dealing with literature and political and sociological matters have been left virtually unchanged, as they document this crucial time in the history of the GDR. The social science articles, on the other hand, have been added to or modified in perspective to reflect the tumultuous changes taking place in the GDR during that spring and summer. Co-published with the International Symposium on the German Democratic Republic.
The studies published in this volume are revised and updated versions of papers which were first presented at the Eighteenth New Hampshire Symposium on East Germany, held in June 1992. They are concerned above all with how the GDR's past is to be understood and what use is to be made of this understanding when it comes to dealing with the present and future of the new united Germany. Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Michael Brie, The Difficulty of Discussing the GDR; Roger Woods, The East German Contribution to German Identity; Michael Hoffman and Dieter Rink, The Coalworkers of Espenhain: A Study in the Decline of Tradition in an Established Industrial Region; Eckhard Schroter, When Cultures Collide: The Case of Administrators from East and West Berlin; Peter Marcuse, Is Anything Positive to be Learned from the GDR? Cities and Housing in Real Existing Socialism; Rainer Eckert, The Conflict between Academic Ethos and Security Intelligence Activity: Institutions of Higher Learning in the GDR; Roland Berbig, "status quo vadis"? Schriftstelleriches Sozialverhalten und Autorenevaluierung am Beispiel der Poetenszene des "Prenzlauer Bergs"; Daniela Dahn, Uber kulturlose Versuche kultureller Vereinheitlichung-Anpassungszwange im Beitrittgebiet; Christine Zehl Romero, No Voices-New Voices? Literature and Literary Climate in the Former GDR since the Wende.
Assistant editors are: Wolfgang B_scher, Christine Cosentino, Volker Gransow, Nancy A. Lauckner, Duncan Smith, Alexander Stephan, W. Christoph Schmauch.
Assistant editors are Christine Consentino, Volker Granslow, Nancy A. Lauckner, Duncan Smith, Alexander Stephan, and W. Christoph Schmauch.