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Cultural topographies of the new Berlin /Karin Bauer and Jennifer R. Hosek.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Berghahn Books, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781785337215
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DD866 .C858 2017
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Contents:
Cultural history of post-wall Berlin: from utopian longing to nostalgia for Babylon / Katrina Sark -- Taking a walk on the wild side: Berlin and Christiane F.'s second life -- / susan ingram -- Representations and interpretations of "the new Berlin" in contemporary German comics / Lynn Marie Kutch -- Spaces, monuments, and the appropriation of history -- Reconfiguring the spaces of the "creative class" in contemporary Berlin / Simon Ward -- Negotiating Cold War legacies: the discursive ambiguity of Berlin's memory sites / Stefanie Eisenhuth & Scott H. Krause -- Branding the new Germany: the Brandenburg Gate and a new kind of German historical amnesia / Sarah Pogoda & Rudiger Traxler -- Disappearing history: challenges of imagining Berlin after 1989 / Ayse N. Erek & Eszter Gantner -- Reimagining integration -- Governing through "ethnic entrepreneurship" -- Resisting integration: Neukolln artist responses to integration politics / Johanna Schuster-Craig -- The revival of diasporic Hebrew in contemporary Berlin / Hila Amit -- Berlin's international literature festival: globalizing the Bildungsburger / Marike Janzen -- Berlin memoryscapes of the present -- Transnational cityscapes: tracking Turkish-German histories in postwar Berlin / Christiane Steckenbiller -- Israeli Jews in the new Berlin : from Shoah memories to Middle Eastern encounters / Hadas Cohen and Dani Kranz -- Through the eyes of angels and vampires: Berlin ruins in wings of desire and we are the night / Peter Golz -- The uncanny city: Berlin in international film / Andre Schutze.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Contesting gentrification: subculture to mainstream -- Cultural history of post-wall Berlin: from utopian longing to nostalgia for Babylon / Katrina Sark -- Taking a walk on the wild side: Berlin and Christiane F.'s second life -- / susan ingram -- Representations and interpretations of "the new Berlin" in contemporary German comics / Lynn Marie Kutch -- Spaces, monuments, and the appropriation of history -- Reconfiguring the spaces of the "creative class" in contemporary Berlin / Simon Ward -- Negotiating Cold War legacies: the discursive ambiguity of Berlin's memory sites / Stefanie Eisenhuth & Scott H. Krause -- Branding the new Germany: the Brandenburg Gate and a new kind of German historical amnesia / Sarah Pogoda & Rudiger Traxler -- Disappearing history: challenges of imagining Berlin after 1989 / Ayse N. Erek & Eszter Gantner -- Reimagining integration -- Governing through "ethnic entrepreneurship" -- Resisting integration: Neukolln artist responses to integration politics / Johanna Schuster-Craig -- The revival of diasporic Hebrew in contemporary Berlin / Hila Amit -- Berlin's international literature festival: globalizing the Bildungsburger / Marike Janzen -- Berlin memoryscapes of the present -- Transnational cityscapes: tracking Turkish-German histories in postwar Berlin / Christiane Steckenbiller -- Israeli Jews in the new Berlin : from Shoah memories to Middle Eastern encounters / Hadas Cohen and Dani Kranz -- Through the eyes of angels and vampires: Berlin ruins in wings of desire and we are the night / Peter Golz -- The uncanny city: Berlin in international film / Andre Schutze.

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.

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