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Revision Guide – History Around Us Stasi Prison
The Gryphon School GCSE HISTORY UNIT 3: HISTORY AROUND US The Prohibited District: Berlin Hohenschonhausen REVISION GUIDE 1 The exam: You will take one exam of one hour for this unit. You will be required to answer TWO questions out of a choice of three. Note: Each school has chosen a different site to study, so questions will always refer to “your site” rather than Hohenschonhausen. SPECIMEN PAPER: As part of your GCSE (9–1) History B (Schools History Project) course you have studied a historical site and what remains of it today. Refer to features from the site as well as other sources you have studied and your own knowledge of the past to help you with the questions below. You may find it helpful to draw a simple sketch of the site you have studied before you start. This may remind you of its main features. You are advised to spend no more than three minutes doing this. In your answers, you may include simple sketches of features that can be seen at your site if you think this will help you to explain your ideas. Answer any two questions 1. Did your site change dramatically over its history? Use physical features of the site and other sources as well as your knowledge to support your answer. [20] Spelling, punctuation and grammar [5] 2. Explain how we can know that your site was important to people at a particular time in its history. Use physical features of the site and other sources as well as your knowledge to support your answer. -
No. 589, December 3, 1993
25«1: No.S89 3 December 1993 After NAFTA, Clinton Strongarms Japan, Europe Wilson/NY Times Clinton and leaders of Pacific Rim countries meeting in Seattle at "Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation" forum. U.S. wants to use spectre of Pacific "free trade" as club against European imperialist rivals. u.s. Gears UP lor Trade War Hours after the North American Free Workers marched with red flags to protest ernment. The international airport at that the major unions in Belgium have Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed a three-year freeze on real wages and Brussels was shut down by pickets who called a general strike. by the U.S. Congress on November 17 massive cuts in social security decreed put up flaming barricades on the access • Spain: On November 25, hundreds by an unexpectedly wide margin, Presi by the Christian Democrat/Socialist gov- roads. This is the first time since 1936 of thousands of workers demonstrated dent Clinton shuttled off to Seattle where across Spain against "Socialist" prime he had convoked a meeting of the heads minister Felipe Gonzalez' proposed labor of government of the Pacific Rim coun law "reform" which would make it easier tries. The purpose: to use his NAFTA to fire workers at a time when official "win" to extract trade concessions from unemployment is almost 23 percent. The the Asian leaders, to be used in turn as workers' demonstrations, supported by a battering ram against the Europeans. students and community organizations, The aim of Clinton's pact with Canada were called by the Socialist Party-led and Mexico is to reinforce the American General Workers Union and the Work bourgeoisie's economic muscle against ers Commissions as a dry run for a its imperialist trade rivals by creating a general strike. -
Memories of East German Childhood: Popular Representations of the Contested Past
Memories of East German Childhood: Popular Representations of the Contested Past A Senior Honors Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for graduation with distinction in Germanic Languages and Literatures in the undergraduate colleges of The Ohio State University by Claire M. Doughty The Ohio State University June 2005 Project Advisers: Dr. Andrew Spencer, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Dr. Helen Fehervary, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures 2 Table of Contents Introduction......................................................................................................................3-8 Chapter One: Metaphors and Memories of Childhood in Monika Maron’s Stille Zeile Sechs ..................................................................................................................9-24 Chapter Two: Time, Space, and the Problem of Loss in Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye, Lenin! ................................................................................................................25-41 Chapter Three: The Past as Pop Culture in Jana Hensel’s Zonenkinder ......................42-59 Chapter Four: Popular Music in Leander Hau βmann’s Sonnenallee ...........................60-78 Conclusion....................................................................................................................79-83 Notes.............................................................................................................................84-92 Bibliography.................................................................................................................93-98 -
Ostalgie and the Politics of the Future in Eastern Germany
.%/,)"%2!,()34/2)#)4)%3 /STALGIEANDTHE0OLITICS OFTHE&UTUREIN%ASTERN'ERMANY $OMINIC"OYER 4here was a time, not so long ago, when the former East Germany seemed ripe for so many futures. Sometimes giddy, sometimes anxious discussions sketched the potential of the East to grow in several different direc- tions in the wake of German unification: perhaps into an extension of the politi- cal and social order of the West, perhaps into a more humanitarian socialism, perhaps into the embodiment of some third way ideal. At the same time, from the forums of public culture to the practice of everyday life, eastern Germany was experienced by native and visitor alike as a space of dizzying revolution, of abun- dant presence, of rapid becoming (Boyer 2001a). Like the rattling of construc- tion equipment that filled the air, the future seemed to vibrate in every moment, always begging the question: What will come next? What is striking to me about eastern Germany today is not only how this sense of futurity has been dampened but how it has, in fact, been turned inside out. In political and cultural discussions of the East, talk of transformation and futurity has been rendered into tropes of stasis and pastness. In January 2004, for exam- ple, New York Times journalist Richard Bernstein described the “strange mood of nostalgia” in eastern Germany: “People wear ‘born-in-the G.D.R.’ T-shirts, or they collect Trabants, the rattling two-cylinder cars that East Germans waited years to buy, or they go online to be contestants on the ‘Ossi-Quiz,’ all questions relating to East German pop culture” (2004; also see Williamson 2003). -
Ostalgie: Revaluing the Past, Regressing Into the Future
GDR Bulletin Volume 25 Issue 1 Spring Article 1 1998 Ostalgie: Revaluing the Past, Regressing into the Future Claudia Sadowski-Smith University of Delaware Follow this and additional works at: https://newprairiepress.org/gdr This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Sadowski-Smith, Claudia (1998) "Ostalgie: Revaluing the Past, Regressing into the Future," GDR Bulletin: Vol. 25: Iss. 1. https://doi.org/10.4148/gdrb.v25i0.1243 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by New Prairie Press. It has been accepted for inclusion in GDR Bulletin by an authorized administrator of New Prairie Press. For more information, please contact cads@k- state.edu. Sadowski-Smith: Ostalgie: Revaluing the Past, Regressing into the Future Claudia Sadowski-Smith University of Delaware Ostalgie: Revaluing the Past, Regressing into the Future In the winter of 1996, I attended an Ostalgie Party in author Daniela Dahn has called the GDR "sub-public" Lutherstadt Wittenberg, a small East German town of about (Westwärts 180). Since these authors contribute to the 60,000 inhabitants, where cultural events were often recovery of politicized practices from everyday life and cancelled for lack of attendance. That night, however, more popular culture in the GDR, their fictional work seriously than 800 people were lining up for admission. Many of them questions the modernist divide between high literature and had voluntarily dressed in recycled East German soldiers' or popular art. Pioneer uniforms. -
'To What Extent Does the Nostalgic Tone of Some German Film Post
INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC AND ROMANCE STUDIES MA CULTURAL MEMORY ‘To what extent does the nostalgic tone of some German film post-1989 facilitate a 'coming-to-terms' with the subject of the GDR past and provide the basis for a new form of cultural memory in the unified Germany? Discuss with reference to Good Bye, Lenin! and Sonnenallee.’ by Ivan Lazid Date of Submission: 14/09/09 Supervisor: Dr. Ben Schofield Table of Contents 1. Introduction p. 3 2.1 Sonnenallee & Good Bye, Lenin! p. 14 2.2 Sonnenallee: Thematic p. 15 2.3 Good Bye, Lenin!: Thematic p. 21 3.1 Sonnenallee: Stylistic & Filmic p. 28 3.2 Good Bye, Lenin!: Stylistic & Filmic p. 31 3.3 p. 35 4. Conclusion p. 36 2 1. Introduction The critic Gerd Gemünden states that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent unification between East and West Germany “have had a paradoxical effect on Germans, instilling […] a euphoric sense of pride but also triggering a deep crisis about precisely what it is that one ought to be proud of”.1 These polarised sentiments echo a country reborn and united, yet also in cultural and societal disarray. The amalgamation proved not to be as simple as the celebrations provoked by the fall of the Berlin Wall would lead one to believe. The newly unified ‘Berlin Republic’ that rose from the ashes of a demolished wall was not a natural unifier of the people. The former division between the two countries and the surrounding atmosphere is perhaps best summarised by Rudolf Thome’s description of a normal day in West Berlin: “Vor meinem Fenster in einer Kreuzberger Zweizimmer-Wohnung ist eine unverputzte, graubraune Brandmauer. -
Implications of the Nostalgia of Cold War Identities in the Former East Germany Ben Stone
Carleton Review of International Affairs, Vol. 4 (Fall 2017) Willkommen Zuhause Lenin: The Implications of the Nostalgia of Cold War Identities in the former East Germany Ben Stone Introduction: From the creation of the state in 1949, to the collapse of the communist government and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990, the government and the Socialist Unity Party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) dominated all aspects of life for its citizens, monitoring its citizen through the surveillance apparatus of the Stasi. For the duration of the state’s existence, the government of the GDR, under the direction of Moscow, took strides to create and develop a distinct East German culture and identity separate and distant from the identity of the western-backed Federal Republic of Germany and of the previous Third Reich and Weimar Republic. This resulted in an identity that was influenced by socialist ideology, propaganda, limited interactions with Western states, and the political climate of the Cold War. This identity would continue to develop throughout East Germany’s existence until the collapse of the Berlin Wall. However, this East German identity has not ceased to exist with the reunification of Germany. Instead, it was revived among some former residents of East Germany within roughly ten years of reunification in a nostalgic and cultural revival movement that has come to be known as ‘Ostalgie’ (a portmanteau of the German ‘Ost’, or East, and ‘Nostalgie’ or Nostalgia). I argue that this modern trend and nostalgia for this distinct East German identity made a resurgence in the last decade due to the residual indoctrination on the part of the East German government among many of its former citizens, the economic divides and prejudice of the East German identity, and the novelty of East German culture as a result of DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22215/cria.v4i0.1189 84 Carleton Review of International Affairs, . -
German Film and the Waning of Ostalgie
JW-15 GERMANY Jill Winder is a Donors’ Fellow of the Institute studying post-reunification Germany through the ICWA work and attitudes of its artists. LETTERS German Film and the Waning of Ostalgie Since 1925 the Institute of By Jill Winder Current World Affairs (the Crane- MAY 2006 Rogers Foundation) has provided BERLIN–In 2003, a film called Goodbye, Lenin, directed by Wolfgang Becker, swept long-term fellowships to enable the prestigious German Film Prize’s awards, taking seven prizes including the outstanding young professionals top honor, the “Lola” for best picture. The awards conferred deserved but belated to live outside the United States tribute on a film that became a cultural phenomenon the minute it hit the big and write about international screen; more people saw the movie in theaters than any other German film in areas and issues. An exempt history. Goodbye, Lenin, is a charming “tragicomedy” about the fall of the German operating foundation endowed by Democratic Republic (GDR), set in 1989-1990. the late Charles R. Crane, the Institute is also supported by In the film, the adorable Daniel Brühl (who won numerous Best Actor awards contributions from like-minded for his performance) plays Alex, an 18-year-old who lives in an East Berlin plattenbau individuals and foundations. (Socialist high-rise) with his mother Christiane Kerner and sister Ariane. The trouble begins when Alex’s mother, a true believer and tireless champion of the GDR regime, has a heart attack and falls into a coma after learning that Alex was TRUSTEES arrested for his participation in an anti-Communist demonstration. -
The Stasi at Home and Abroad the Stasi at Home and Abroad Domestic Order and Foreign Intelligence
Bulletin of the GHI | Supplement 9 the GHI | Supplement of Bulletin Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Supplement 9 (2014) The Stasi at Home and Abroad Stasi The The Stasi at Home and Abroad Domestic Order and Foreign Intelligence Edited by Uwe Spiekermann 1607 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE NW WWW.GHI-DC.ORG WASHINGTON DC 20009 USA [email protected] Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Washington DC Editor: Richard F. Wetzell Supplement 9 Supplement Editor: Patricia C. Sutcliffe The Bulletin appears twice and the Supplement usually once a year; all are available free of charge and online at our website www.ghi-dc.org. To sign up for a subscription or to report an address change, please contact Ms. Susanne Fabricius at [email protected]. For general inquiries, please send an e-mail to [email protected]. German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Ave NW Washington DC 20009-2562 Phone: (202) 387-3377 Fax: (202) 483-3430 Disclaimer: The views and conclusions presented in the papers published here are the authors’ own and do not necessarily represent the position of the German Historical Institute. © German Historical Institute 2014 All rights reserved ISSN 1048-9134 Cover: People storming the headquarters of the Ministry for National Security in Berlin-Lichtenfelde on January 15, 1990, to prevent any further destruction of the Stasi fi les then in progress. The poster on the wall forms an acrostic poem of the word Stasi, characterizing the activities of the organization as Schlagen (hitting), Treten (kicking), Abhören (monitoring), -
The Trabant and the Mercedes: a Psychological Analysis Into the Disjunction of German Reunification
University of South Carolina Scholar Commons Senior Theses Honors College Fall 2020 The Trabant and the Mercedes: A Psychological Analysis into the Disjunction of German Reunification Faith Morris [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/senior_theses Part of the Eastern European Studies Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, Psychology Commons, and the Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Commons Recommended Citation Morris, Faith, "The Trabant and the Mercedes: A Psychological Analysis into the Disjunction of German Reunification" (2020). Senior Theses. 389. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/senior_theses/389 This Thesis is brought to you by the Honors College at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE TRABANT AND THE MERCEDES Morris 1 THE TRABANT AND THE MERCEDES: A PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS INTO THE DISJUNCTION OF GERMAN REUNIFICATION By Faith Morris Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Graduation with Honors from the South Carolina Honors College December 2020 Approved: Michael Kirkwood House PhD Director of Thesis Yvonne Ivory PhD Second Reader Steve Lynn, Dean For South Carolina Honors College THE TRABANT AND THE MERCEDES Morris 2 THE TRABANT AND THE MERCEDES Morris 3 Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION 5 II. AUTHORITARIANISM AND EAST GERMAN IDENTITY 7 THE FORMATION OF A NEW IDENTITY: PRODUCTION AND PROPAGANDA 9 THE AUTHORITARIAN THREAT 11 SOCIALISM’S SUCCESSES 13 DIE WENDE 14 THE LOSS OF GDR IDENTITY 15 III. WIEDERVEREINIGUNG 18 IV. HOLDING ONTO THE PAST 21 OSTALGIE IN FILM AND LITERATURE 23 V. -
A Social History of German Cinema
Section for Cinema Studies Spring 2014 Department of Media Studies Master Level 30 HP Points Stockholm University Before and After the Wall: A Social History of German Cinema Hande Cetinkaya Supervisor: Patrick Vonderau Title: Before and After the Wall: A Social History of German Cinema Author: Hande Cetinkaya Institution: Department of Media Studies/ Section for Cinema Studies, Stockholm University Supervisor: Patrick Vonderau Level: International Master in Cinema Studies The date of examination: June 2014 ABSTRACT This thesis deals with the perception of the Cold War in selected German feature films. Sonnenallee (Leander Haussmann, 1999), Die Unberührbare (Oskar Roehler, 2000), Good Bye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker, 2003), Herr Lehmann (Leander Haussmann, 2003) and Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006) have been selected for a comparative analysis that focusses on narratives of the Cold-War era after reunification, and for an examination of how the social impact of German unification has been addressed in these films. In terms of methodology, the thesis uses Pierre Sorlin’s social history of cinema and Pierre Nora’s concept of lieu de mémoire to describe the social imagination and nostalgic representation of memories. There is a research gap in previous studies concerning how the Cold War has become a topic in recent German feature film production, and this study aims to complement those earlier works. Keywords: collective memory, identity, the fall of the Berlin Wall, nostalgia, Ostalgie, Westalgie. Acknowledgements I would like to thank all those helping me to complete this thesis, particularly my supervisors, Maaret Koskinen and Patrick Vonderau. Thank you my dear family for your support and goodwill; also, thanks to three beautiful cities, Istanbul, Stockholm and Berlin which motivated me to finish this study. -
Introduction: Disempowering a Dictatorship
INTRODUCTION Disempowering a Dictatorship Media and Consumer Culture in East Germany This book focuses on an intriguing paradox of East German society and the overall dynamics of the cultural Cold War. On the one hand, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was a totalitarian regime that at- tempted to impose a monopoly as well as strict control over its media and culture and frequently asserted these ambitions with brutal effi - ciency and a complete disregard for the resulting casualties. On the other hand, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, the regime led by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutsch- lands [SED]) condoned an ever-greater infl ux of especially Western pop- ular and consumer culture that directly contradicted and undermined its own vision of a new and unique socialist culture. This paradox cre- ated a remarkably hybrid international popular culture in East Germany, especially during the late socialist era. In addition to its own unique cultural expressions, imports and infl uences from the West stood side by side with Soviet and Eastern European media and consumer products, all of which daily vied for the attention of the East German public. This diverse popular culture and “consumer socialism” stands in stark con- trast to the popular notion of a closed-off , provincial socialist GDR state where all the power rested in the hands of the party elite.1 Even when it came to its own media, the SED leadership was never able to impose a tight political control or a strict homogeneity among offi cial East German media expressions.