"Communist agriculture - from the perspective of the pig. In Communist Pigs, Thomas Fleischman traces the rise and fall of the German Democratic Republic from the perspective of one animal, Sus scrofa, or the pig. His goal is to offer a deeper understanding of the development of…
Umschlag -- Titel -- Inhalt -- Frank Bajohr / Anselm Doering-Manteuffel /Claudia Kemper / Detlef Siegfried: Einleitung -- Ein Ausgangspunkt -- Axel Schildt: Fünf Möglichkeiten, die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik zu erzählen -- Kollektive Sozialisationen -- Michael Wildt: Die Bund…
Indigenous activism in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s challenged Eurocentric narratives and stereotypes of Indigenous peoples, and of equality in the United States. The 1973 Occupation of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota gained internation…
This thesis explores how the Institut für Literatur ‘Johannes R. Becher’, an East German institution for the training of writers, negotiated tensions that arose from the conflicting demands between literary and political values. The Institute had the objective to foster emerging…
Anna Seghers-Handbuch: Leben - Werk - Wirkung
Framing the fifties: cinema in a divided Germany
by Davidson, John E., Hake, Sabine
fromFilm Europa
As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working as a legal historian, she tracked down the almost complete archive of a former …