Index
17th of June 1953
8, 45n7, 46n8, 141–143, 159, 243, 244, 332, 353
Adenauer, Konrad
238
Adorno, Theodor
236
allied bombing of Germany
5, 24, 76–77, 88, 89, 121, 213
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
139
Althusser, Louis
13
Alisch, Rainer
14
agriculture and agricultural reform
35, 38–42, 77–79, 122
Anderson, Sascha
226, 338
Andropov, Yuri
100
anti-communism
40–41, 225
anti-fascism
34–38, 57, 319–322
‘Myth of anti-fascism’
6n11
official promotion of
5–8, 73
antisemitism
45, 74, 102–104, 319
Aufbau generation
6–7, 215, 342, 352, 354, 355.
post-war reconstruction
Augustine, Dolores L.
12
von Bahder, Peter
11
Bahro, Rudolf
222, 306
Bauernpartei
82
Behrend, Hanna
253–254, 255, 257–259, 261–262, 263, 290, 297–300
Benjamin, Hilde
134
Berlin Wall
6, 10, 47, 48, 54, 115, 127, 132, 140, 144, 160, 180, 191, 192, 208–209, 279, 301–302, 312, 317, 323, 325, 336, 352.
events of 1989
Biermann, Wolf
14, 100, 149–150, 196–197, 240, 283, 332, 355
Bischoff, Egon
109
Blobel, Ulli
219
Bohley, Bärbel
138, 196, 204, 205, 285, 290
Böll, Heinrich
189
Böttcher, Martin
285, 292, 295
Brandt, Willy
46, 149
Braun, Volker
9n14, 99
Brezhnev, Leonid
237, 250
Brie, Michael
301
Brüsewitz, Oskar
222
Bronson, Charles
199
Bruckner
118
Buchenwald concentration camp
61, 187
Bündnis
90, 240, 321
Carow, Heiner
301
censorship and freedom of expression
9, 11, 80, 99–100, 116–118, 147, 153, 160, 195–198, 200, 202, 204, 211, 219, 240, 241–244, 252–253, 258, 283, 294, 354–355
CDU
156, 292, 305, 305–306, 308, 321, 340
Charter
77, 222, 289
childcare
126, 198, 256, 324
Church (in the context of GDR)
147, 149, 153, 155, 157, 185, 194, 204, 218, 223, 226, 230–231, 247–248, 283, 286, 291, 311, 330
Churchill, Winston
40
Chopin, Frédéric
112
Classen, Christoph
6
Communist Party
,
see KPD
computation
262, 272
concentration camp
57, 61–62, 90, 91, 104, 134, 187.
Nazism, atrocities
consumer goods and consumer situation
58, 64, 83, 108, 185–188, 215–216, 221–222, 246, 257, 260, 282, 310–312, 317, 326.
economic situation
culture, literature, and theatre in the GDR (wider discussions of)
9–10, 14, 67, 97, 100–101, 105, 149–150, 153, 157, 189, 191, 195–200, 239–240, 244–245, 258, 330, 338–340
cultural history
,
see history
cultural policy
9–11, 14, 113.
literature and culture
cultural politics of memory
,
see memory
cultural politics of representation
,
see representation
currency
27, 45, 48, 54, 56, 59, 64, 77, 85, 105, 138–139, 164, 190, 209, 257, 273, 305, 309
Czechoslovakia (political events)
11, 73, 116, 145–146, 216, 230, 289, 353
Dahlke, Birgit
10
Davis, Angela
114, 281
DDR Museum
16n20, 339
DEFA
115–118
demonstrations and protest
70, 72–73, 80, 95, 114, 118–119, 153–155, 159, 163, 169, 179, 204–205, 207–208, 241–245, 251, 284–288, 292, 300–302, 312, 317–318, 336–337
wider historical contexts
8
Dickens, Charles
188, 252
dictatorship
12–15, 50, 227, 243, 278, 353–355
dictatorship of the proletariat
7, 12, 101, 235, 278
historical framings of
11–12, 15, 353–355
Dieckmann, Christoph
219
Dubček, Alexander
161–162
Dürer, Albrecht
232
Dutschke, Rudi
145
van Dyke, Anthony
232
Ebert, Friedrich
46
economic development and economic situation of GDR: overview
8, 11
account of
42, 44–45, 47, 51, 61, 70, 72, 77, 80–84, 101, 137, 145, 151–153, 205–206, 232, 237, 272–273, 306
post-1989
86–87, 212, 275–277, 307, 346.
post-1989 situation
shortages
77, 82–83, 152, 186–187, 190, 257
education: coming of age ceremony (Jugendweihe)
6, 147–148, 230, 248, 269, 279–280, 326
account of schooling
22, 88, 104–110, 159, 185–186, 214, 229–230, 247–248, 267, 269, 279–280, 309–310, 316–319, 324, 332–333
teaching at school
147–148, 153, 328, 334–335.
higher education
elections
155
environmentalism
43
Emmerich, Wolfgang
339
employment and employment situation
53, 124–127, 136, 152–153, 163–166, 172, 191, 196–197, 199–201, 205–206, 221, 272–278.
higher education and post-1989 situation
Eppelmann, Rainer
204, 207
events of 1989
69, 72–73, 84, 99–101, 119–120, 127–128, 140, 153, 155–156, 163, 179, 193, 206–212, 242–245, 263–265, 300–304, 312, 316, 336–338, 354
FDJ
,
see youth movements
feminism
67, 74–75, 263, 286, 313, 338
Festival of Political Song
73, 174, 329, 332–333
film
115–118, 199–200
Fink, Heinrich
71, 266
Fuchs, Jürgen
219
Fulbrook, Mary
7, 12, 12n15, 15n18, 352
Fokine, Mikhail
112n3
Foucault, Michel
14
food shortages
27
Frey, John R.
9
Frisch, Max
189
Gaddafi, Muammar
278
Gauck, Joachim
265–267, 277
Gauguin, Paul
189
Gestapo
12n15
GDR, comparison to West
32, 37, 40, 62–63, 70, 86, 127–129, 154, 156–157, 163, 187, 193, 202, 210–212, 233, 238, 240, 259, 274–275, 309, 316, 337
as a new society
37–38, 80, 92, 142
glasnost
11, 70
Goebbels, Joseph
319
Gorbachev, Mikhail
11, 70, 100, 101, 138, 139, 150, 207, 330, 336
Gorky, Maxim
250
Grafe, Roman
355
Green Party
305
Greene, Graham
258
Gsovsky, Tatjana
105
Guevara, Che
160
Gundermann, Gerhard Rüdiger
331
Gysi, Gregor
297–298, 305
Hager, Kurt
69, 118
Haussmann, Leander
220
Havemann, Katja
138
Havemann, Robert
138
health and dentistry
82, 123, 162–166
Heidegger, Martin
218, 236
Heimat
4
Hein, Christoph
157
Heine, Heinrich
107, 154, 332
Helsinki Agreement
148–149
Hermlin, Stephan
334
Herwegh, Friedrich Rudolph Theodor
96
Heym, Stefan
244
higher education: student experience
57–58, 79–81, 92–95, 108–109, 146, 160–163, 221–222, 229, 232–238, 250–255, 271–272, 280–281, 284, 290–2, 297, 328, 333–333, 338–340
experience (working at university)
63–67, 71–72, 95–100, 255–259
post 1989
265–267, 297–300
Hines, Barry
258
History: historical accuracy
3, 193, 227–228, 277, 339–340, 343–346, 355
cultural history
13, 15–16
official history
6, 278, 344–345
popular history
16, 339–340
public history
6–7
Hitler, Adolf
5n10, 11, 21, 27, 34, 90, 202, 224, 278, 319
Honecker, Eric
11, 48, 49, 54, 69, 148, 151, 169, 207, 241–244, 306
Honecker era
51, 54, 165, 222, 239, 355
Horkheimer, Max
236
Hörnigk, Frank
339
housing and living situation
44–46, 48–49, 123–124, 148, 156, 164–165, 192, 201, 239, 249–250
Hungary 1956
146, 192, 244, 332, 353
Husserl, Edmund
236
Ideology: official ideology
6–7, 218, 239, 243, 309
ideological education
114, 233–238, 251
theorisation of
13–14
Identity: GDR identity (theorisation of)
13
identification with GDR post 1989
128–129, 211–212, 276–278, 306–308, 309, 316–317, 321–322, 337–341
stereotypical representation of
16, 85–86, 152–153, 265, 276–277, 306–307, 317
Intershop
64, 70, 139, 311–312
Jahn, Roland
14, 15
Jähn, Sigmund
186
Jarausch, Konrad
12
jeans
215, 260, 282.
consumer situation
Jugendweihe
,
see education
Kalinin, Mikhail
94
Kaiser, Bruno
96
Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse
46–47, 126, 173, 336
Kant, Hermann
67, 93
Khrushchev, Nikita
95, 114
Kirsten, Ralf
115
Klemperer, Victor
292
Klier, Freya
241
Klotz, Günther
254
Knabe, Hubertus
16n19, 227
Koch, Robert
322
Kocka, Jürgen
12, 13, 338
Kohl, Helmut
156, 264
Kollwitz, Käthe
118
Köpsel, Frida
5
Kostrovitskaja, Vera Sergejona
107
Kordon, Klaus
16n19
Korean War
61
KPD
8, 10, 37, 104
Krawczyk, Stephan
241
Krenz, Egon
101, 207, 244, 245
land reform
36, 39–40, 77–79
Lastenausgleichgesetz
30
Lenin
122, 147, 233, 250
Leninism
8
Liebknecht, Karl
72, 114, 241
Lindenberger, Thomas
13
Loeser, Diana
249
Lukács, Georg
146
Luxemburg, Rosa
72, 114, 241
Macinnes, Colin
252
de Maizière, Lothar
305
Manchester Blitz
56
Marc, Franz
189
Marshall Plan
43
Marx, Karl
233
Marxism
13n17, 38, 71, 92, 162, 233–238, 261, 301
Marxism-Leninism (subject)
66, 106, 162, 233–235, 271, 280–281, 301, 334
memory, cultural politics of
3, 6, 12–13, 15–16, 44, 147, 193, 227–228, 264–265, 276–278, 322, 340–341, 342–356
media: GDR radio, television and news media
62, 84, 100, 132, 140, 151, 189, 196–197, 204, 240, 242, 311
West German radio, television and media
155n12, 156, 188, 211, 214, 215, 216, 231, 238, 253, 260, 271, 277, 282, 287, 311, 332, 336, 345
Merl, Robert
272
Mielke, Erich
132
migration to the West
8, 10, 29, 45, 47, 59, 60, 65, 79, 115, 132, 142–144, 160, 201–203, 207, 324
military service
219–221, 233, 270
Modrow, Hans
264
Morgner, Irmtraud
100
Müller, Karin
11
Müller, Heiner
244, 284
Museum and heritage industry
6, 16, 16n20
Museum of Everyday Life (Berlin)
16, 339–340
Museum of German History (Museum für Deutsche Geschichte)
6, 16n20, 116, 119
music, popular music, and music scene
81, 160, 173–175, 191, 219–220, 258, 271–272, 294, 311
Musil, Robert
239
Nathan, Sabine
254, 258
Nazi atrocities
,
see Nazism
Nazism: atrocities
5, 6, 12n15, 35, 57, 77, 90, 104, 107, 135, 342, 348
educational contexts
6
experience of
7, 10, 21, 23, 26, 34–35, 88–90, 102–104
post-war context
37–38, 41, 62, 73, 159, 224, 227, 278, 332.
antifascism and Hitler, Adolf
wider historical contexts
4, 6, 10, 12n15, 56
Neues Deutschland
,
see media
Neues Forum
138, 263, 291–292, 300, 336
neo-Nazi
224, 319–321
Nietzsche, Friedrich
236
nostalgia
15–16, 307, 318, 339, 349–351
nostalgia industry
16, 350–351
Novotny, Antonin
161
Nürnberg trials
12n15
Obama, Barack
278
oral history
2–4, 17, 342, 347–348
Ossi (Stereotype)
,
see identity
Ostpolitik
11
Ostrowksy, Nikolai
94
PDS
73, 74–75, 305, 321
Peace Movement
284–292
perestroika
11, 70, 118
photography
201–206
Pioneers
,
see youth movement
Plato
236
Plenzdorf, Ulrich
195
police and justice system, experience of
68–69, 132–136, 222, 292
Stasi
political activism, opposition and/or repercussions of perceived criticism of GDR
67–69, 81, 151, 157, 196, 226, 241–245, 284–297.
Biermann, Wolf
politics of memory
,
see memory
politics of representation
,
see representation
Poppe, Gerd
285
Poppe, Grit
16n19
Poppe, Ulrike
195, 196, 204, 205, 290
Portelli, Alessandro
347n4
post-war hardship and reconstruction
6, 27–28, 35, 44, 57, 80, 104, 122, 130–131, 137, 141–143, 145, 213
post-1989 situation
71–72, 75, 101, 119–120, 127–128, 140, 156–157, 166, 193, 210–212, 264–267, 273–278, 304–308, 312–314, 316–322, 339–341, 350
employment and unemployment
127–128, 156, 181, 212, 266–267, 274–277, 308, 319, 321
Potsdam Conference
42
Prague Spring
11, 145–146, 161–162, 244, 332
prison and labour camp experience
132–136, 222–224, 292–297, 330
productivity
9, 11, 41, 44, 50, 57, 61, 78, 80–81, 124–125, 206, 273.
economic situation
protest
:
see demonstrations and protest
Proust, Marcel
239
punk
173, 294, 319–320
Putin, Vladimir
278
racism
73–74
Rammelow, Bodo
276
Ravel, Maurice
105
reconstruction
,
see post war hardship and reconstruction
Red Army
,
see Soviet Red Army
refugee experience and experience of displacement: account of
24–26, 28, 30, 56, 59, 76–78, 89, 103–104, 130–131, 213, 217
Reich, Jens
207
religion
,
see church and religion
Rembrandt
232
Renft, Klaus
219
reparations
43, 45, 143
representation, politics of
1, 7, 9, 15–16, 193, 276–278, 340–341, 343–344, 349–350, 353
Republikflucht
,
see migration to West
Ricoeur, Paul
343
Rote Kapelle
331
Rudé parvo
162
Schabowski, Günther
245, 263, 318
Schalinski, Hans-Joachim
338
Schatrov, Mikhail
118
Schlenstedt, Dieter
328
Schmidt, Helmut
148
Schnabel, Hans
10
Schorlemmer, Friedrich-Wilhelm
153
Schulze, Gundula
201
Schwarzer, Alice
285
SED
2, 6, 8, 11, 14, 37, 60, 63, 69, 155–156, 168, 195, 242, 269, 288, 315, 318, 327–333
involvement in
50–53, 61–63, 75, 91–92, 95–96, 101, 110–111, 122, 158, 162, 165, 213, 232, 270–271, 274, 331–332
Seghers, Anna
188
Shakespeare, William
252
Shaw, Bernard
252
Sholokov, Mikhail
188, 250
Simon, Annette
336
Simon, Hans
311
Sindermann, Horst
151
Sitte, Willy
242
Slánský, Rudolf
116
Smith, Adam
234
social class
2
social welfare
31–32
Social Democratic Party
,
see SPD
socialist consciousness
10
Socialist Unity Party
,
see SED
Soviet Occupation
5, 30, 35, 39, 77, 104, 130–132, 159, 217, 342
Soviet Red Army
39, 60, 103
flight from
,
see refugee experience
Soviet Union, experience of
106–112
Solidarity (trade union)
117, 222, 289
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
100, 196, 197
Stalin, Josef
11, 106, 122, 146–147
Stalinism
8, 330
Stalinist purges and atrocities
7, 8, 95, 158, 217
Stasi
11, 12n15, 14, 15, 65, 69–70, 100, 132–134, 138–140, 165, 188, 196–198, 200, 203–204, 222–227, 235, 244, 258, 261, 265–266, 277–278, 280, 284, 311–312, 327–332, 336, 347–350
files
69–72, 110–111, 138, 147, 226, 277, 328.
police and justice system
Stasi surveillance
69–70, 132–133, 138, 196, 241, 260, 286–289, 292, 298–299
Stasi Museum
16n20
State Opera
105, 106, 109–116, 239
Stegat, Holger
297, 299, 300
Strittmatter, Erwin
67
Strock, Matthias
347
Stroph, Willi
150–151, 241
SPD
8, 37, 60, 104, 135, 155–156, 305, 312, 321
Sputnik
242, 343, 330
socialist realism
9
Tarkovsky, Andrei
200
Tiananmen Square
224
Tisch, Harry
48, 303
Tito
8n12, 93
Thatcher, Margaret
62
Theodorakis, Mikis
281
Theresienstadt concentration camp
104
Totalitarianism
,
see dictatorship
tourism
16
Trabant (make of car)
272–275
trade unions, involvement in
36, 58, 59, 61, 97, 123–126, 229, 242, 257
travel and holidays
54, 64, 83, 106, 115, 119–120, 128, 139, 160–162, 189–190, 239, 249, 253, 267, 277, 283, 285, 304–305, 307, 313–314, 316, 325–327, 332, 353
Treuhandanstalt
119, 275–276
Trauma
348–349
Ulbricht, Walter
8, 11, 117, 132, 136, 145, 165, 237, 306
university
,
see higher education
university reform
65–67
Verfolgte der Naziregimes (VdN)
6, 201
Vogel, Wolfgang
203
Wall
,,
see Berlin Wall
,
events of 1989
Wander, Maxie
258
“We are the people” (“Wir sind das Volk”)
70, 155, 242, 244, 337
Weerth, Georg
96
Weimar Republic
1, 7, 10, 18, 321, 352
Weimann, Robert
254
Weitz, Eric
7
welcome money
119, 193, 209, 264, 303, 312.
events of 1989
Wende
,
see events of 1989
Wolf, Christa
9n14, 67, 98, 100, 157, 189, 244–245, 258, 336
Wolf, Friedrich
245
Wolf, Markus
119, 245
Wollweber, Ernst Friedrich
136
World Youth Festival Berlin
105, 114
Worgitzky, Charlotte
100
women’s rights, women’s movements and situation of women
49, 67, 87–88, 126–127, 129, 258, 284–292, 304, 312–313, 324, 336–339
Women for Peace
,
see Peace Movement
war: experience of the Second World War
24–26, 34–35, 76–77, 88–90, 102–104, 121–122
xenophobia
73–74, 321–322
Youth movements
10, 14, 36, 59
Christian youth movements
14, 91, 218, 221, 230, 269, 282–283, 318
FDJ
6, 10, 14, 29, 36, 58, 65, 73, 81, 90–91, 94–95, 115, 122, 142, 159–160, 185–186, 207, 216, 230–231, 248–249, 269, 279–282, 288, 309–311, 314, 315–318, 326, 328, 332–333
Jungmädel and Bund Deutscher Mädel (Nazi youth organisations)
89, 94–95, 102–103; for Jugendweihe see education
Pioneers
10, 160, 185, 216, 218, 230, 248, 269, 279, 281, 315, 318, 326
Yugoslavia (events in)
8, 11, 93
Zaisser, Wilhelm
136
Zepplin, Rosemarie
67
Zetkin, Clara
118
Zola, Emil
188
Zweig, Arnold
96