Memorializing the GDR(English, Electronic book text, Saunders Anna)

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Memorializing the GDR(English, Electronic book text, Saunders Anna) is written by Saunders Anna and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1785336819 (ISBN 10) and 9781785336812 (ISBN 13).

Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, political, and historical contexts. Emphasizing the interrelationship of built environment, memory and identity, it brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history, as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of identity.