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The new Berlin : memory, politics, place / Karen E. Till.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Till, Karen E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory--Political aspects--Germany.
- Memory.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Berlin (Germany)--History--1990-.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Four locations frame The New Berlin: the Topography of Terror, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Jewish Museum, and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum. Through field notes, interviews, archival texts, personal narratives, public art, maps, images, and other sources, Karen Till describes how these places and spaces exemplify the contradictions and tensions of social memory and national identity.
- Contents:
- A fence, June 1999
- Hauntings, memory, place
- Infobox, July 1997
- The new Berlin: from Kiez to Kosmos
- A flyer
- The Gestapo terrain: landscape, digging, open wounds
- Fieldnotes: the topography of terror, 1994 and 2002
- Berlin's Ort der Tater: a historic site of perpetrators
- A neighborhood
- Aestheticizing the rupture: Berlin's Holocaust Memorial
- A newspaper article
- Memory in the new Berlin.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9402-8
- OCLC:
- 476095772
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