Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989

Published by Berghahn Books 2010

Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989

Edited by: Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake

Volume 6 in the series Culture & Society in Germany

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845456573

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About this book

A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decades preceding reunification and thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlin’s identities. German historians, art historians, architectural historians, and literary and cultural studies scholars explore the divisions and antagonisms that defined East and West Berlin; and by tracing the little studied similarities and extensive exchanges that occurred despite the presence of the Berlin Wall, they present an indispensible study on the politics and culture of the Cold War.

Author / Editor information

Philip Broadbent is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published on literary representations of post- 1990 Berlin and contemporary European fiction. His current book project looks at the emergence of cool aesthetics in West Germany.

Sabine Hake is the Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of six books, including Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin (2008) and Screen Nazis: Cinema, History, and Democracy (2012), and has published numerous articles and edited volumes on German film and Weimar culture.

Philip Broadbent is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published on literary representations of post- 1990 Berlin and contemporary European fiction. His current book project looks at the emergence of cool aesthetics in West Germany.

Reviews

“Eschewing the primacy of political history, the authors provide a nuanced picture of a city that, in many respects, was less divided than the Cold War mindset would have us believe…This interesting volume demonstrates the many ways in which East and West Berlin were mutually influential, and how commonalities extended beyond the division.” · English Historical Review

“This volume taps into the on-going fascination with Berlin but, refreshingly, broadens the historical and conceptual scope, asking us to reconsider some of the assumptions we tend to make about the relationship between East and West Berlin during the time of the city’s division…The volume is so well conceived and simply so interesting that most readers will probably want to read it in its entirety…It demonstrates what an essay collection can accomplish when it grows out of a shared discussion. The broad range of topics and the interdisciplinary perspectives presented in this book could not have been achieved by an individual author. The editors deserve praise for the volume’s coherence and consistency.” · The German Quarterly

"Adopting an explicitly interdisciplinary approach, this volume ambitiously aims to offer more than just a cultural history of Cold War Berlin…[Its] mix of spatial and chronological demarcations proves insightful inasmuch as the best essays transgress and even undermine them, in effect articulating one of the editors’ stated emphases ‘on the continuities of urban culture beyond historical ruptures and spatial divides" · German History

"[An] important contribution to current scholarship on Berlin in the Cold War period. Although this is an anthology, it is well conceived to focus on various aspects of Berlin culture during the years of the Cold War." · Stephen Brockmann, Carnegie Mellon

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE Cold War Beginnings
CHAPTER 1 Life Among the Ruins: Sex, Space, and Subculture in Zero Hour Berlin Jennifer V. Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
CHAPTER 2 The Propagandistic Role of Modern Art in Postwar Berlin Maike Steinkamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
CHAPTER 3 Back to the Future: New Music’s Revival and Redefi nition in Occupied Berlin Elizabeth Janik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
CHAPTER 4 The Nylon Curtain: Architectural Unification in Divided Berlin Greg Castillo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
CHAPTER 5 Mediascape and Soundscape: Two Landscapes of Modernity in Cold War Berlin Heiner Stahl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
PART TWO East Berlin, the Socialist Capital
CHAPTER 6 Painting the Berlin Wall in Leipzig: The Politics of Art in 1960s East Germany April A. Eisman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
CHAPTER 7 “You Have to Draw a Line Somewhere” Tropes of Division in DEFA Films from the Early 1960s Mariana Ivanova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
CHAPTER 8 Constructing a Socialist Landmark: The Berlin Television Tower Heather Gumbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
CHAPTER 9 Transparency in Divided Berlin: The Palace of the Republic Deborah Ascher Barnstone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
PART THREE West Berlin, Showcase of the West
CHAPTER 10 The Woman Between: Hildegard Knef’s Movies in Cold War Berlin Ulrich Bach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
CHAPTER 11 Benno Ohnesorg, Rudi Dutschke, and the Student Movement in West Berlin: Critical Reflections after Forty Years David E. Barclay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
CHAPTER 12 Berlin and Post-Meinhof Feminism: Yvonne Rainer’s Journeys from Berlin/1971 Claudia Mesch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
CHAPTER 13 Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin as a Cold War Project Paul B. Jaskot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
CHAPTER 14 Beyond the Berlin Myth: The Local, the Global and the IBA 87 Emily Pugh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
PART FOUR Berlin After Unification: Looking Back and Beyond
CHAPTER 15 Stereographic City: Berlin Photography in the Wende Era Miriam Paeslack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
CHAPTER 16 Divided City, Divided Heaven? Berlin Border Crossings in Post-Wende Fiction Lyn Marven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
CHAPTER 17 Interview with Barbara Hoidn Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Index of Proper Names: People, Places, and Institutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 222
Keywords: Urban Studies; History: 20th Century to Present

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Published: September 1, 2010
ISBN: 9781845456573