Brockmann The Freest Country in the World

East Germany's Final Year in Culture and Memory
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80543-037-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 236, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Shows that while the GDR is generally seen as - and mostly was - an oppressive and unfree country, from late 1989 until autumn 1990 it was the "freest country in the world": the dictatorship had disappeared while the welfare system remained.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brockmann, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Dokumentarfilme
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Memory of Freedom
1: Protocols of History: Reunification Documentaries from 1989/1990
2: Anarchy in the GDR
3: The National Liberation Zone
4: Coming of Age as the State Dies: Three Novels and Their Heroes
5: Provincial Theater: Fiction Film Struggles to Address German Reunification in the Early 1990s
6: The Grand Theater of the East and the Imaginary Stasi: The Emergence of the Standard Depiction of German Reunification in Film and on Television
7: Ritual, Repetition, and Memory: Commemorating and Memorializing 1989/1990
Conclusion: The Last GDR
Selected Works Cited
Filmography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brockmann Stephen:
STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.