After the Wall
Memory
Links
English-language:
http://mss.sagepub.com/content/by/year
Archive of online issues of the Memory Studies journal.
http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/Memory.html
Comprehensive link to further reading on memory.
http://www.zeit.de/2008/41/DOS-Tag-der-Einheit
Article from Die Zeit about Germany’s problematic remembrance of the GDR.
http://www.zeitzeugenbuero.de/index.php?id=welcome0
Portal which looks at Germany’s division and reunification through contact with eyewitnesses from the GDR, teaching materials and links to sites of memory and remembrance.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/podcasts/media/more/centreformemorystudies/
Series of podcasts from the Centre for Memory Studies, University of Warwick.
German only:
http://www.bpb.de/files/0FW1JZ.pdf
Aleida Assmann’s ‘Soziales und kollektives Gedächtnis’, looking at social and collective memory, official and unofficial memory, and how memory relates to identity.
http://www.historischer-service.de/preussen/aufsatz/kriegerdenkmal.html
Lars-Holger Thümmler, ‘Der Wandel im Umgang mit den Kriegerdenkmälern in den östlichen Bundesländern Deutschlands seit 1990‘, in Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2003, ed. by Hans-Jochen Gamm and Wolfgang Keim (Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, 2003)
http://sammelpunkt.philo.at:8080/1838/1/ebook_German_Erinnerungsorte.pdf
Andreas Soller, ‘Erinnerungsorte in der Massenkultur’ (doctoral thesis, Fachhochschule Vorarlberg, 2004)
Secondary Literature on Memory
Printable PDF-version of the bibliography
Assmann, Aleida, Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit: Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2006)
Assmann, Jan, ‘Collective Memory and Cultural Identity’, New German Critique, 65 (1995) 125-33
Bal, Mieke, Jonathan Crewe and Leo Spitzer, eds, Act of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1999)
Confino, Alon, ‘Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method’, The American Historical Review, 102 (1997) 5, 1386-403
Connerton, Paul, How Societies Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
Crawford, June, Emotion and gender: constructing meaning from memory (London: Sage, 1992)
Erll, Astrid, Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen (Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2004)
Halbwachs, Maurice, On Collective Memory, ed. and trans. by Lewis A. Coser (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992)
Hanley, Lynne, Writing war: fiction, gender and memory (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991)
Hirsch, Marianne, and Valerie Smith, ‘Gender and Cultural Memory’, Signs, 28 (2002) 1, 1-19
Hodgkin, Katherine, and Susan Radstone, eds, Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory (London: Routeledge, 2003)
—— Memory, history, nation: contested pasts (London: Transaction, 2006)
—— Regimes of Memory (London: Routeledge, 2003)
Huyssen, Andreas, Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (London: Routeledge, 1995)
Irwin-Zarecka, Iwona, Frames of Remembrance: Social and Cultural Dynamics of Collective Memory (London: Transaction, 1993)
Johnson, Nuala C., ‘Public Memory’, in A Companion to Cultural Geography, ed. by James S. Duncan, Nuala C. Johnson and Richard H. Schein (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007)
Johnson, Richard, et al., Making Histories: Studies in History-Writing and Politics (London: Hutchinson, 1982), particularly pp. 205-252.
Le Goff, Jacques, History and Memory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992)
Leydesdorff, Selma, Luisa Passerini, and Paul Richard Thompson, eds, Gender and Memory (London: Transaction, 2007)
Nora, Pierre, Realms of Memory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996-8)
—— ‘Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire’, Representations, 26 (1989) 7-25
Nünning, Ansgar, Marion Gymnich, and Roy Sommer, eds, Literature and Memory: Theoretical Paradigms-Genres-Functions (Tübingen: Franke, 2006)
Olik, Jeffrey K., ‘Genre Memories and Memory Genres: A Dialogical Analysis of May 8 1945 Commemorations in the Federal Republic of Germany’, American Sociological Review, 64:3 (1999), 381-402
Paletschek, Sylvia, and Sylvia Schraut, eds, The Gender of Memory: Cultural Remembrance in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe (Frankfurt: Campus, 2008)
Radstone, Susannah, ‘Memory Studies: For and Against’, Memory Studies, 1(1) (2008), 31-39
—— Memory and Methodology (Oxford: Berg, 2000)
Samuel, Raphael, Theatres of Memory (London: Verso, 1994)
Till, Karen E., ‘Places of Memory’, in A Companion to Political Geography, ed. by John Agnew, Katharyne Mitchell and Gerard Toal (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007)
Yuval-Davis, Nira, Gender and Nation (London: Sage, 1997)
Bach, Jonathan, ‘“The Taste Remains”: Consumption, (N)ostalgia, and the Production of East Germany’, Public Culture, 14 (2002) 3, 545-56
Balbier, Uta A., Cristina Cuevas-Wolf and Joes Segal (eds), East German Material Culture and the Power of Memory, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, 2011, Supplement
Berdahl, Daphne, ‘(N)Ostalgie for the present: Memory, longing, and East German things’, Ethnos, 64 (1999) 2, 192-211
Betts, Paul, ‘The Twilight of the Idols: East German Memory and Material Culture’, The Journal of Modern History, 72 (2000) 3, 731-65
Bisky, Jens, ‘Zonensucht: Kritik der neuen Ostalgie‘, Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Europäisches Denken, 58 (2004) 2, 117-27
Blum, Martin, ‘Club Cola and Co.: Ostalgie, material culture and identity’, in Transformations of the New Germany, ed. by Ruth A. Starkman (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
—— ‘Remaking the East German Past: Ostalgie, Identity, Material Culture’, Journal of Popular Culture, 34 (2000) 3, 229-53
Boyer, Dominic, ‘Ostalgie and the Politics of the Future in Eastern Germany’, Public Culture, 18 (2006) 2, 361-81
Clarke, David and Ute Wölfel (eds), Remembering the German Democratic Republic: Divided Memory in a United Germany (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Duckenfield, Mark, and Noel Calhoun, ‘Invasion of the Western Ampelmännchen’, German Politics, 6 (1997) 3, 54-69
Emmerich, Wolfgang, ‘Cultural Memory East v. West: Is What Belongs Together Really Growing Together?’, Oxford German Studies, 38 (2009) 3, 242-53
Etienne, François and Hagen Schulze, eds, Deutsche Erinnerungsorte: Eine Auswahl (Munich, C. H. Beck, 2005)
Gallinat, Anselma, ‘Intense Paradoxes of Memory: Researching Moral Questions About Remembering the GDR’, History and Anthropology, 20 (2009) 2, 183-99
Hermand, Jost, and Marc Silberman, eds, Contentious Memories: Looking Back at the GDR (New York: P. Lang, 1998)
Hodgin, Nick and Caroline Pearce (eds), The GDR Remembered: Representations of the East German State Since 1989 (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011)
Jaeger, Dagmar, ‘‘Only in the 1990s Did I Become East German’: A Conversation with Ingo Schulze about Remembering the GDR, Simple Storys, and 33 Moments of Happiness; with an Introduction to His Work’, New German Critique: An Interdisciplinary Journal of German Studies, 101 (2007) 143-55
Jordan, Jennifer A., ‘A Matter of Time: Examining Collective Memory in Historical Perspective in Postwar Berlin’, Journal of Historical Sociology, 18 (2005) 1-2, 37-71
Koshar, Rudy, From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870-1990 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000)
Leeder, Karen (ed.), From Stasiland to Ostalgie: The GDR Twenty Years After, Oxford German Studies, 38 (2009) 3
Loshitsky, Yosefa, ‘Inverting Images of the 40s: The Berlin Wall and Collective Amnesia’, Journal of Communication, 45 (1995) 2, 93-107
Marven, Lyn, ‘“Souvenirs de Berlin-Est”: History, Photos, and Form in Texts by Daniela Dahn, Irina Liebmann, and Sophie Calle’, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 43 (2007) 2, 220-33
Rechtien, Renate, ‘Cityscapes of the German Democratic Republic – An Interdisciplinary Approach: Introduction’, German Life and Letters, 63 (2010) 4, 369-74
Rechtien, Renate and Dennis Tate (eds), Twenty Years On: Competing Memories of the GDR in Postunification German Culture (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011)
Rudnick, Carola S., Die andere Hälfte der Erinnerung: Die DDR in der deutschen Geschichtspolitik nach 1989, (Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2011)
Sadowski-Smith, Claudia, ‘Ostalgie: Revaluing the Past, Regressing into the Future’, GDR Bulletin, 25 (1998) 1-6
Saunders, Anna and Debbie Pinfold, Remembering and Rethinking the GDR: Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)