Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Edited by: Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785337215

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About this book

Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the “New Berlin” is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany’s largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.

Author / Editor information

Karin Bauer is Professor of German Studies at McGill University and former editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Her publications include Adorno’s Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner and Everybody Talks about the Weather: We Don’t, along with numerous articles on critical theory and contemporary German literature and culture.

Jennifer Ruth Hosek is Associate Professor of German at Queen's University, affiliated with Film, Gender, and Cultural Studies. Her scholarly projects include the monograph Sun, Sex, and Socialism: Cuba in the German Imaginary, the documentary Rodando en La Habana: Bicycle Stories, articles on a range of topics, and the telecollaborative learning platform www.linguaelive.ca.

Karin Bauer is Professor of German Studies at McGill University and former editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Her publications include Adorno’s Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner and Everybody Talks about the Weather: We Don’t, along with numerous articles on critical theory and contemporary German literature and culture.

Reviews

“In sum, Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin is an important, fresh, and invigorating addition to Berlin scholarship, and its broad interdisciplinary scope makes it a highly recommended read for researchers and students with an interest in the many facets of Germany’s capital. Most importantly, it more than lives up to its premise and provides challenging and illuminating answers for those seeking to find out about Berlin today.” • Feminist German Studies

“…an indispensable resource for any scholar who works on Berlin, and any person who is interested in the changing dynamics of urban space. The collection is thoughtfully conceived, and extremely well edited, as many of the wide-ranging contributions are cross-referenced and intertextual. The footnotes offer a wealth of useful material and the chapter bibliographies combine to form a complete picture of English-language literature on Berlin, while highlighting relevant disciplinary sources.” • German Studies Review

“This timely and stimulating book provides fresh insights into many issues of today’s Berlin. Its contributions have been carefully selected and aligned with one another, and their combination makes for an entirely unique approach to the topic.” • Peter McIsaac, University of Michigan

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Contesting Gentrification: Subculture to Mainstream
1. Cultural History of Post-Wall Berlin From Utopian Longing to Nostalgia for Babylon Katrina Sark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Taking a Walk on the Wild Side Berlin and Christiane F.’s Second Life Susan Ingram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
3. Representations and Interpretations of “The New Berlin” in Contemporary German Comics Lynn Marie Kutch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Part II: Spaces, Monuments, and the Appropriation of History
4. Reconfiguring the Spaces of the “Creative Class” in Contemporary Berlin Simon Ward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
5. Negotiating Cold War Legacies The Discursive Ambiguity of Berlin’s Memory Sites Stefanie Eisenhuth and Scott H. Krause Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
6. Branding the New Germany The Brandenburg Gate and a New Kind of German Historical Amnesia Sarah Pogoda and Rüdiger Traxler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
7. Disappearing History Challenges of Imagining Berlin after 1989 Ayse N. Erek and Eszter Gantner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Part III: Reimagining Integration
8. Governing through “Ethnic Entrepreneurship” Barış Ülker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
9. Resisting Integration Neukölln Artist Responses to Integration Politics Johanna Schuster-Craig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
10. The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary Berlin Hila Amit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
11. Berlin’s International Literature Festival Globalizing the Bildungsbürger Marike Janzen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
Part IV: Berlin Memoryscapes of the Present
12. Transnational Cityscapes Tracking Turkish-German Hi/Stories in Postwar Berlin Christiane Steckenbiller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
13. Israeli Jews in the New Berlin From Shoah Memories to Middle Eastern Encounters Hadas Cohen and Dani Kranz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
14. Through the Eyes of Angels and Vampires Berlin Ruins in Wings of Desire and We Are the Night Peter Gölz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
15. The Uncanny City Berlin in International Film Andre Schütze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	364
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387