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Life stories from the German Democratic Republic / edited and translated by Chris Weedon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- German monitor ; no. 81.
- German monitor, 0927-1910 ; volume 81
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory--Germany (East).
- Collective memory.
- Memory--Social aspects--Germany (East).
- Memory.
- Germany (East)--Social life and customs.
- Germany (East).
- Germany (East)--Social conditions.
- Germany (East)--Historiography.
- Germany (East)--Biography.
- Historiography.
- Manners and customs.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Physical Description:
- vi, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
- Summary:
- "More than thirty years after German reunification, Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic addresses how life in the GDR is remembered, thereby enriching and complexifying the narratives of East German life found in public history, museums, tourist venues, film, media and popular fiction. The frequent stress on material lack, social restrictions and the repressive state is expanded and reconfigured by interviewees who variously both challenge and confirm widespread assumptions about what it meant to live in the GDR. Aimed at a wide readership, this book gives English-speaking readers access to varied and detailed accounts of everyday life, individual engagement with state institutions and different views of GDR politics, society and culture"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Frida Köpsel 1905-2001
- Hans Schnabel 1926-2007
- Sabine Nathan 1929-2019
- Bernd Köpsel 1930-1996
- Eva Kaufmann 1930-2019
- Ursula Kirsten-Collein 1932-
- Uschi Schnabel (née Brauer) 1936-
- Horst Jahnke 1940-2019
- Ingrid von Bahder (Born 1942) and Peter von Bahder (Born 1941)
- Karin Müller 1943-
- The GDR in the 1980s: Photographs by Jutta Wrase
- Rosel Juhl 1946-
- Jutta Wrase 1950-
- Rainer Alisch 1952-
- Bernd Rosner 1953-
- Isolde Neubert Köpsel 1956-2016
- Reinhart Fabian 1956-
- Elisabeth Gibbels 1960-
- Anon 1 1975-
- Anon 2 1974- Together with Anon 1 1975-
- Birgit Dahlke 1960-
- Afterword: Reflections on Life Stories from the GDR.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Life stories from the German Democratic Republic
- ISBN:
- 9789004544895
- 9004544895
- OCLC:
- 1380460023
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