Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989 (Culture & Society in Germany, 6)

Annotation A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin's cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decades preceding reunification and thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlin's identities. German historians, art historians, architectural historians, and literary and cultural studies scholars explore the divisions and antagonisms that defined East and West Berlin; and by tracing the little studied similarities and extensive exchanges that occurred despite the presence of the Berlin Wall, they present an indispensible study on the politics and culture of the Cold War A Great Deal Of Attention Continues To Focus On Berlin's Cultural And Political Landscape After The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, But As Yet, No Single Volume Looks At The Divided City Through An Interdisciplinary Analysis. This Volume Examines How The City Was Conceived, Perceived, And Represented During The Four Decades Preceding Reunification And Thereby Offers A Unique Perspective On Divided Berlin's Identities.--back Cover. Introduction / Philip Broadbent And Sabine Hake -- Life Among The Ruins: Sex, Space, And Subculture In Zero Hour Berlin / Jennifer V. Evans -- The Propagandistic Role Of Modern Art In Postwar Berlin / Maike Steinkamp -- Back To The Future: New Music's Revival And Redefinition In Occupied Berlin / Elizabeth Janik -- The Nylon Curtain: Architectural Unification In Divided Berlin / Greg Castillo -- Mediascape And Soundscape: Two Landscapes Of Modernity In Cold War Berlin / Heiner Stahl -- Painting The Berlin Wall In Leipzig: The Politics Of Art In 1960s East Germany / April A. Eisman -- You Have To Draw A Line Somewhere: Tropes Of Division In Defa Films From The Early 1960s / Mariana Ivanova -- Constructing A Socialist Landmark: The Berlin Television Tower / Heather Gumbert -- Transparency In Divided Berlin: The Palace Of The Republic / Deborah Ascher Barnstone -- The Woman Between: Hildegard Knef's Movies In Cold War Berlin / Ulrich Bach -- Benno Ohnesorg, Rudi Dutschke, And The Student Movement In West Berlin: Critical Reflections After Forty Years / David E. Barclay -- Berlin And Post-meinhof Feminism: Yvonne Rainer's Journeys From Berlin/ 1971 / Claudia Mesch -- Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum In Berlin As A Cold War Project / Paul B. Jaskot -- Beyond The Berlin Myth: The Local, The Global And The Iba 87 / Emily Pugh -- Stereographic City: Berlin Photography In The Wende Era / Miriam Paeslack -- Divided City, Divided Heaven? Berlin Border Crossings In Post-wende Fiction / Lyn Marven -- Interview With Barbara Hoidon / Philip Broadbent And Sabine Hake. Edited By Philip Broadbent And Sabine Hake. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, & represented during the 4 decades preceding reunification & thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlin's identities. Scholars explore the divisions & antagonisms that defined East & West Berlin & present an indispensible study on the politics & culture of the Cold War.