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Prussia in the historical culture of the German Democratic Republic: communists and kings
In: Studies in German history
No example demonstrates the fluidity of the past within the German Democratic Republic more powerfully than the history of the Prussian state. Initially attacked in East German official histories as the historical engine of German militarism and reaction, Prussia underwent a remarkable transformation in official and public memory from around the end of the 1970s. This was the so-called 'Prussia-Renaissance', in which, for the first time, the East German state began to recognise and even celebrate figures from Prussian history who had not served a 'progressive' agenda. But the 'Prussia-Renaissance' was also a political and cultural phenomenon with a wide public resonance. The 'Prussia-Renaissance' may have been a relatively short-lived phenomenon, but it evidently opened a deep vein in the historical memory of the German Democratic Republic that defied reduction to 'high politics' alone. This book asks why. Using the case study of Prussia, Marcus Colla presents a multi-perspective approach to the way that a distinctive 'historical culture' was constructed in the German Democratic Republic. It not only evaluates the roles played by political figures, historians, and cultural elites, but also heritage preservationists, exhibition curators, heimat museums, television producers, novelists and playwrights, and singers – the purveyors of what we might more generally term 'popular culture'. In essence, Colla poses four fundamental questions for our understanding of life, politics and culture in communist East Germany: how was history there made? How was it understood? How was it contested? And how was it used?
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'Teacher Martina wants you to write in cursive': Parents invoking school morality in directive sequences during homework
In: Research on children and social interaction: RCSI, Band 7, Heft 1
ISSN: 2057-5815
The concept of 'family–school partnership' has been extensively investigated from a macro and theoretical perspective, but it is still little explored at the micro level of interaction. Based on video-recorded homework sessions collected in Italian family residences and drawing on conversation analysis, this paper shows how parents enact what constitutes the core meaning of the family–school partnership (i.e. the sharing of values between home and school). The analysis shows that parents invoke what they frame as 'school morality' as an account in directive sequences. It is argued that, in so doing, parents increase their own entitlement while reducing the assertiveness of their directives. At the same time, they display their orientation towards aligning with school morality and discursively construct a moral order common to family and school.
After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR Edited by Enrico Heitzer, Martin Jander, Anetta Kahane, and Patrice G. Poutrus. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2021. Pp. viii + 324. Cloth $145.00. ISBN: 978-1789208528
In: Central European history, Band 56, Heft 2, S. 353-355
ISSN: 1569-1616
Whither Prussia? Berlin's Humboldt Forum and the Afterlife of a Vanished State
In: Central European history, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 2-17
ISSN: 1569-1616
AbstractFrom its very conception some thirty years ago, Berlin's Humboldt Forum has been one of contemporary Germany's most controversial cultural initiatives. One aspect of this controversy has been the role of the Prussian past in reunified Germany. Housed in a reconstruction of the Prussian Royal Palace destroyed by the East German communist government in 1950, the visual symbolism of the project spurred a long struggle over the appropriate urban aesthetic for the country's capital city. In the view of many critics, the structure symbolizes the triumph of a particular conservative narrative of national memory that excludes the GDR, downplays National Socialism, and uncritically celebrates the Prussian past. This article traces how public debates about the structure of the Humboldt Forum have served as a vehicle for reflection on Prussian history and its relevance (or irrelevance) for reunified Germany.
Une « école du bonheur » en Suède ? Reflets médiatiques d'une utopie, entre projections et fantasmes
In: Nordiques, Heft 41
ISSN: 2777-8479
The Spectre of the Present: Time, Presentism and the Writing of Contemporary History
In: Contemporary European history, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 124-135
ISSN: 1469-2171
Presentism used to be so simple. In the old vernacular it referred to a tendency to view the past from the perspective of the present (or, at its most extreme, maybe even use the past to illuminate the present). Historians disagreed furiously on the intellectual virtues of orienting their views of the past to the needs of the current day. But the content of the term itself was rarely disputed.
Edward Saunders, Kaliningrad and Cultural Memory: Cold War and Post-Soviet Representations of a Resettled City. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. viii + 308pp. £48.00 pbk
In: Urban history, Band 47, Heft 4, S. 698-699
ISSN: 1469-8706
Vladimir Kulić, ed., Second World Postmodernisms: Architecture and Society under Late Socialism
In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 938-940
ISSN: 1461-7250