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This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic Republic. Combining a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, the volume challenges the narrow frameworks of totalitarianism and Ostalgie that have dominated discussions of art produced in the GDR. It explores the diversity of art produced in the state and contests the long-held perception that socialist realism and artistic innovation were mutually exclusive. Crucially, the collection puts art itself to the fore; GDR art is considered not simply as a political by-product, as is so often the case, but as an entity of innovation and aesthetic value in its own right.

Arts, German --- Arts --- Art, German --- Art and state --- Music --- Art and state. --- Art, German. --- Arts, German. --- Music. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- German arts --- Art, Bavarian --- German art --- Fels (Group of artists) --- Gruppe 1950 (Group of artists) --- HobbypopMUSEUM (Group of artists) --- Kooperative Kunst (Group of artists) --- Kugel (Group of artists) --- Lücke (Group of artists) --- Art --- Politics and art --- State and art --- Art and society --- Cultural policy --- Education and state --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Political aspects --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects. --- Government policy --- Germany (East) --- 1949 --- -Cộng hòa dân chủ Đức --- D.D.R. --- DDR --- Democratic German Republic --- Deutsche Demokratische Republik --- East German Democratic Republic --- East Germany --- Eastern Germany --- G.D.R. --- GDR --- German Democratic Republic --- Germanskai͡a Demokraticheskai͡a Respublika --- Germany --- N.D.K. --- N.D.R. --- N.R.D. --- NDK --- NDR --- Nĕmecká demokratická republika --- Német Demokratikus Köztársaság --- Niemiecka Republika Demokratyczna --- Nimet͡sʹka Demokratychna Respublika --- NRD --- Ostdeutschland --- Östtyskland --- R.D.A. --- RDA --- Repubblica democratica tedesca --- Republica Democrată German --- República Democrática Alemana --- Tyska demokratiska republiken --- Tyske demokratiske republik --- Germany (West) --- Deutschland (DDR) --- Literature & literary studies --- Literature: history & criticism

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Twenty years on from the dramatic events that led to the opening of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the GDR, the subjective dimension of German unification is still far from complete. The nature of the East German state remains a matter of cultural as well as political debate. This volume of new research focuses on competing memories of the GDR and the ways they have evolved in the mass media, literature, and film since 1989-90. Taking as its point of departure the impact of iconic visual images of the fall of the Wall on our understanding of the historical GDR, the volume first considers the decade of cultural conflict that followed unification and then the emergence of a more complex and diverse "textual memory" of the GDR since the Berlin Republic was established in 1999. It highlights competing generational perspectives on the GDR era and the unexpected "afterlife" of the GDR in recent publications. The volume as a whole shows the vitality of eastern German culture two decades after the demise of the GDR and the centrality of these memory debates to the success of Germany's unification process.

Collective memory --- Popular culture --- German prose literature --- Literature and history --- History and criticism. --- History --- Geschichte 1989-2009. --- Germany (East) --- Germany --- In popular culture. --- In literature. --- In motion pictures. --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- German literature --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Germany (Democratic Republic, 1949- ) --- Deutsche Demokratische Republik --- Tyske demokratiske republik --- Democratic German Republic --- German Democratic Republic --- East German Democratic Republic --- East Germany (Democratic Republic) --- DDR --- Germanskai︠a︡ Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Nĕmecká demokratická republika --- NDR --- Nimet︠s︡ʹka Demokratychna Respublika --- GDR --- Niemiecka Republika Demokratyczna --- NRD --- Német Demokratikus Köztársaság --- NDK --- Tyska demokratiska republiken --- Östtyskland --- Republica Democrată Germană --- Repubblica democratica tedesca --- Germany (Democratic Republic) --- D.D.R. --- N.D.R. --- G.D.R. --- N.R.D. --- N.D.K. --- República Democrática Alemana --- RDA --- R.D.A. --- Ostdeutschland --- Eastern Germany --- Cộng hòa dân chủ Đức --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West) --- Berlin Wall. --- GDR. --- German unification. --- afterlife of the GDR. --- cultural conflict. --- cultural memory. --- film. --- generational perspectives. --- iconic visual images. --- literature. --- mass media. --- textual memory. --- History and criticism --- In popular culture --- In literature --- In motion pictures