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Rieche, Alexandra Hughes. "The political manipulation of history : the 750th anniversary celebrations in East and West Berlin in 1987." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670294.
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Bogusz, Tanja. "Institution und Utopie : Ost-West-Transformationen an der Berliner Volksbühne." Bielefeld Transcript-Verl, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2960432&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Puteri, Arwen. ""Die Mauer im Kopf": Aesthetic Resistance against West-German Take-Over." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5107.
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Even 24 years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, modern day Germans are still preoccupied with the contentious dynamics of the post-Wall unification process. Concern with geo-political fractiousness is deeply rooted in German history and the reason for Germany's desire to become a unified nation. The Fall of the Wall, and the subsequent rejection of socialism, was a chance to recover and unify what was perceived to be an "incomplete" nation. Yet, despite these actions, social unity between East and West Germans has never occurred and the Wall still persists as a metaphorical barrier in the minds of German citizens. Thus, the unification process should be critically evaluated so that the lingering (social) disunity between East and West Germans may be better understood and potentially remedied.
This thesis examines how two post-Wall films, Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) and Berlin is in Germany (2001) reveal patterns that explain the lingering disunity between East and West from an underrepresented lens: an East German perspective. I do so by investigating whether these films offer insights into the culture of the former GDR, which was ideologically, institutionally, and socio-economically divided from the West for over 40 years. This argument is supported by an analysis of how Good Bye, Lenin! and Berlin is in Germany confront the audience with a new (East German) hero who has to navigate a "foreign" terrain and is expected to adapt to and embrace this entirely new culture. Both films allude to the East German sentiment of longing for GDR culture and values as an attempt to maintain an East German identity while being threatened by overpowering "colonization" by the West.
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Kramer, Joshua L. "Grass Roots Urbanism: An Overview of the Squatters Movement in West Berlin during the 1970S and 1980S." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1522764873720766.
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Rhys, Julian. "Students under Honecker : an examination of responses of students in Berlin, Dresden and Jena to the ideology and politics of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, 1971-1989, with reference to the GDR planned economy, the question of western imp." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322933.
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Stanek, Jennifer Marie. "Demystifying the Notion, “the West is better”: A German Oral History Project." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300726542.
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Smith, Briana Jennifer. "Creative alternatives: experimental art and cultural politics in Berlin, 1971-1999." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5854.
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Creative Alternatives examines the intersections between cultural politics, experimental art, and the public sphere in late twentieth century Berlin. The work identifies how artists used interactive visual displays to engage with West Berlin publics, develop democratic subjectivities under state socialism in East Berlin, and reject the city’s neoliberal turn after German unification. The work also traces the role of the arts as an economic motor in late twentieth century Berlin, as city leaders responded to the pressures of globalization and interurban competition. This study of divided and unified Berlin transcends the political ruptures and geographical divisions that structure our understanding of modern Germany and hinder integrated histories of the two German states, even as it addresses issues common to major cities worldwide.
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Alexander, Keith. "From red to green in the Island City the Alternative Liste West Berlin and the evolution of the West German Left, 1945-1990 /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/320.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2003.Thesis research directed by: History. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Vas, Laura Terezia. "Competing Cityscapes: Architecture in the Cinematic Images of Postwar Berlin." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1184609075.
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LaFond, Michael A. "From Century 21 to Local Agenda 21 : sustainable development and local urban communities in East and West Berlin (Germany), and Seattle (United States) /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10822.
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Braber, Natalie. "The German language and Reunification 1990 : the effect of emotion on the use of modal particles in East and West Berlin." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8940.
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The thesis looks at the language of Germany before and after unification in 1990. In particular the language of the German Democratic Republic before the Wende is examined and the subsequent changes within it. Furthermore, the influence of emotion on the use of modal particles in East and West Berlin is analysed in order to ascertain how emotion can affect language use. The first section concentrates on the language of the German Democratic Republic and how this differed from the language of the Federal Republic of Germany. By looking at two such opposing political systems it is possible to see the effect of politics and the social, cultural and economic values of a state on its language. The second section analyses the language of Germany after the Wende in 1989 and unification in 1990. These changes in German society had profound effects on all aspects of East German life, and to a lesser extent in the Federal Republic of Germany. The citizens of the former German Democratic Republic had to learn to adapt to their new system and this is closely examined. Section three examines modal particles, what they are and how they are used in the German language. After a more general section, the particular modal particles examined in chapter 5: eben, halt, doch, denn and eigentlich are discussed and their usages examined. The fourth section concentrates on emotion and how it has been viewed in past and present research, in conjunction with thought and language. The fifth and final section is the analysis of a corpus of German language, interviews with citizens of East and West Berlin regarding 9 November 1989 and the period after. By examining this corpus, looking at the usage of the five afore-mentioned modal particles and tags and the emotion felt by the speakers, the connection between emotion and the use of modal particles is illustrated.
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Klusener, Edgar. "How did East Germany's Media represent Iran between 1949 and 1989?" Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/how-did-east-germanys-media-represent-iran-between-1949-and-1989(9b223332-bfc9-4f9e-a2db-10c760510c46).html.
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This thesis examines how the press of the erstwhile German Democratic Republic represented Iran in the years from 1949 – the year of the GDR’s formation – until 1989, the last complete year before its demise on 3 October 1990. The study focuses on key events in Iranian history such as the overthrow of the Mossadegh government in 1953, the White Revolution, the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and the Iran-Iraq war. It will be shown that although news and articles were based on selected facts, they still presented a picture of Iran that was at best distorted, the distortions and misrepresentations amounting to what could be described as 'factual fiction'. Furthermore, clear evidence will be provided that economical and political relations with Iran were a primary concern of the GDR’s leadership, and thus also of the GDR’s press and have therefore dominated the reporting on Iran. Whatever ideological concerns there may have been, they were hardly ever allowed to get in the way of amicable relations with the Shah or later with the Islamic Republic. Only in periods where the two countries enjoyed less amicable or poor relations, was the press free to critically report events in Iran and to openly support the cause of the SED’s communist Iranian sister party, the Tudeh. Despite East Germany’s diametric ideological environment and despite the fundamentally different role that the GDR’s political system had assigned to the press and to journalism, East Germany’s press was as reliant on the input of the global news agencies as any Western media. The at times almost complete reliance on Western news agencies as sources for news on Iran challenged more than just the hermeneutic hegemony the SED and the GDR’s press wanted to establish. After all, which news and information were made available by the news agencies to the media in both East and West was primarily determined by the business interests of said agencies. The study makes a contribution to three fields: Modern Iranian history, (East-) German history and media studies. The most valid findings were certainly made in the latter.
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Hiller, Katlin M. "The Wall Still Stands... Or Does It? Collective Memory of the Berlin Wall as Represented in American and German Newspapers." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1533211779787264.
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Crossland, John. "Border crossings : investigating the comparability of case management in a service for older people in Berlin." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38640/.
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Case management, a coordinating process designed to align service provision more closely to the identified needs of people requiring assistance in the context of complex care systems, is an example of those policies and practices that cross the borders of different national welfare systems, ostensibly to resolve the same or similar problems in the adopting country. Developed in the USA, case management was re-named 'care management' upon adoption in the UK as part of the community care reforms of the early 1990s, reforms which have framed my professional life in English local authority adult social care services ever since. In 2007, a temporary research fellowship (TH Marshall Fellowship, London School of Economics) enabled me to spend four months in Berlin studying a citywide case management service for older people in the context of German long-term care policy and legislation. This experience sits at the core of this thesis which addresses the extent to which the study of a specific case management service for older people in Berlin can illuminate how case management translates across differing national welfare contexts, taking into account the particular methodological challenges of cross-national research. Drawing on both cross-national social policy and translation studies literatures and adopting a multi-method case study approach, the central problems of determining similarity and difference, equivalence and translation form the core of the thesis. Informed by a realist understanding of the social world, the study took a naturalistic turn in situ that fore-grounded the more ethnographic elements in the mix of documentary research, semi-participant observation and meetings with key informants that formed my data sources and were recorded in extensive field notes. The data were analysed to trace how case management was constructed locally in relation to both state and federal level policy and legislation, and then comparatively re-examined in the context of the key methodological problems identified above in relation to understandings of care management in England as reported in the literature, in order to further explore the question of comparability of case management across different welfare contexts. The research clearly demonstrates how institutional context both shaped and constrained the adoption of case management in Berlin, and highlights a need in comparative research for close contextual examination of the apparently similar, with a focus on functionally equivalent mechanisms, to determine the extent to which case management can be said to be similar or different in different contexts, particularly where English words and expressions are directly absorbed into the local language. Relating the case study to findings from earlier studies of care management in England highlights the extent to which care management in England is itself a locally shaped and contextualised variant of case management as developed in the USA that matches poorly to the variant in Berlin. Indeed problems discovered in the research site constructing definitional boundaries for case management in practice mirror issues in the wider literature and raise questions about the specificity of the original concept itself. Nonetheless, the study shows that, despite the multiple asymmetries of equivalence and difficulties of translation, there are sufficient points of similarity for cautious potential lessons to be drawn from Berlin, particularly with regards to policy changes on the horizon in England, but also in the other direction with regards to how case management in Berlin may also be re-shaped following recent reforms to German long-term care legislation.
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Klabunde, Fabian Heinz-Dieter. "Einzelpersuasion als Kernstück der DDR-Auswanderungspolitik." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/21308.
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Die Arbeit erforscht das Politikfeld der Auswanderungspolitik in der DDR zwischen 1949 und 1989 in Form einer Policy-Analyse. Sie untergliedert sich in drei Fragstellungen: Lässt sich eine charakteristisch auswanderungspolitische Kombination von Steuerungsinstrumenten nachweisen? Welche Funktion erfüllten spezifische Policy-Akteure? In welchem Verhältnis standen sie zu den Policy-Phasen?
Quellengrundlage ist die Aktenhinterlassenschaft der Ministerien des Inneren und für Staatssicherheit einerseits sowie die Protokolle von Politbüro und Ministerrat andererseits. Untersucht wird die Darstellung des Auswanderungsproblems, der eigenen Handlungsmotive, der Wirksamkeit der Steuerungsinstrumente und anderer Akteure. Die theoretischen Folien für die Politikfeldanalyse sind die Totalitarismustheorie von Carl Friedrich, die Theorie der Coercive Persuasion (Zwangspersuasion) von Edgar Schein, sowie der Begriff des Eigen-Sinn von Alf Lüdtke.
Die Arbeit legt ihren innovativen Schwerpunkt auf das Steuerungsinstrument der „Einzelpersuasion“. Damit ist der hier als totalitär qualifizierte Aufwand gemeint, mit dem das Regime versuchte, die Abwanderung durch individuelles Zureden in den Griff zu bekommen. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass während der gesamten SED-Herrschaft ein spezifisches Set weiterer Steuerungsinstrumente – im Sinne der Theorie der Zwangspersuasion – zur Unterstützung der Einzelpersuasion eingesetzt wurden. Dazu gehörten die berühmt gewordenen auswanderungspolitischen Instrumente des Zwangs wie Berliner Mauer, Schießbefehl und Republikflucht-Paragraph einerseits und der negativen Anreize durch die Diskriminierung von Auswanderungswilligen andererseits.
Policy-Zyklen werden mit den Zäsuren in den Jahren 1952, 1953, 1958, 1961, 1975 und 1989 identifiziert. Mit Blick auf die Einflussnahme diverser auswärtiger Akteure auf die Policyphase des Agendasetting für die Auswanderungspolitik wird eine auswanderungspolitische DDR-Außenpolitik identifiziert.The dissertation explores the emigration policy in the GDR between 1949 and 1989 by means of a policy analysis. It breaks down into three questions: Is it possible to detect a characteristic set of emigration policy instruments? Which policy actors can be identified and what was their relevance in specific policy phases during the policy process? The policy history is examined through an archival analysis based on the huge body of files left over from the ministries of internal affairs and state security as well as minutes from Politbureau and Council of Ministers. The study examines the presentation and perception of the emigration problem, the subjective motives, the effectiveness of policy instruments and the perception of other players. This policy analysis is based on several theories – Carl Friedrich’s Totalitarianism, Edgar Schein’s Coercive Persuasion and Alf Lüdtke’s Eigen-Sinn. The study’s innovative emphasis lies on the policy instrument of „Einzelpersuasion“ (individual persuasion). This refers to the totalitarian effort with which the regime tried to prevent emigration attempts by personal cajolery. The study will show that during the entire SED rule a specific set of additional policy instruments were used to support the individual persuasion according to the theory of Coercive Persuasion. These included on the one hand the infamous coercive emigration policy instruments such as the Berlin Wall, the shoot-on-sight order and the criminal provisions for Republikflucht (escaping GDR). On the other hand, there were always negative incentive instruments discriminating against people intending to emigrate. Policy cycles with remarkable policy reformulation are identified in 1952, 1953, 1958, 1961 with the Berlin Wall, 1975 and 1989. Referring to the influence of various foreign actors on the policy phase of agenda setting for emigration policy the study identifies an “emigration-driven foreign policy”.
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Argelès, Daniel. "Ecriture de l'histoire et construction de soi : les textes de fiction de l'écrivain allemand Klaus Schesinger (1937 - 2001)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030030.
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La présente thèse analyse les textes de fiction de l’écrivain berlinois Klaus Schlesinger sous l’angle de l’écriture de l’histoire. Né en 1937 à Berlin-Est, cet auteur important mais encore sous-estimé connaît cinq régimes différents au cours de son existence – l’Allemagne national-socialiste, l’Allemagne occupée, la RDA (de 1949 à1980), la RFA (de 1980 à 1989), l’Allemagne unifiée – et autant de ruptures majeures dont son œuvre rend compte : révélation de l’ampleur des crimes nazis, réorientations dans l’après-guerre et le socialisme en construction, instauration du Mur de Berlin, « dissidence » et passage à l’Ouest dans le sillage de l’affaire Biermann, puis chute du Mur, disparition de la RDA, réunification. Si un découpage en quatre grandes périodes d’écriture permet d’éclairer un itinéraire intellectuel et politique, l’analyse porte d’abord sur la façon dont Schlesinger représente ce demi-siècle d’histoire allemande, son impact sur les individus et les questions qu’il a soulevées (héritage du passé, place de l’individu dans le socialisme « réellement existant », les sociétés capitalistes ou la guerre froide, utopie, identité). Elle s’intéresse aux choix narratifs et formels opérés dans chaque texte et souligne les enjeux indissociablement historiographiques, moraux, politiques et identitaires dont ils ont été à chaque fois porteurs. Puisant à plusieurs sources théoriques (Ricœur, Foucault, de Certeau, Turner, Geertz), elle met en lumière la nature singulière des espaces souvent hétérotopiques ou liminaux où Schlesinger fait évoluer ses personnages et observe l’écriture de fiction comme un lieu privilégié d’appréhension et de construction de soi dans l’histoire. Centrée sur les textes de fiction, l’analyse exploite également les essais et les textes autobiographiques, ainsi que les archives du fonds Schlesinger de l’Akademie der Künste à Berlin (correspondance, ébauches et fragments, dossiers de surveillance de la Stasi, recensions et coupures de presse, entretiens)This thesis analyses the fictional texts of Berlin author Klaus Schlesinger under the aspect of history-writing. Born in 1937 in East-Berlin, this important yet still under-estimated writer lived under five different regimes – national-socialist Germany, occupied Germany, the GDR (from 1949 to 1980), the FRG (from 1980 to 1989), unified Germany – and as many major changes that find reflection in his work: the revelation of the scope of Nazi crimes, the reorientations in the post-war era and under the socialist regime, the building of the Berlin Wall, political “dissidence” and exile in the West in the wake of the Biermann affair, then the fall of the Wall, the disappearance of the GDR and German unification. While the analysis falls into four chronological periods, thus allowing for an overview of his intellectual and political itinerary, the thesis primarily focuses on the way Schlesinger represented this half-century of German history, its impact on individuals and the questions that arose from it (the heritage of the past, the individual’s position in “real”-socialism, in capitalist societies or the Cold war, utopia, identity). It looks at the narrative and formal choices made in each text and underlines the historiographical, moral, political and personal-identity questions inextricably linked to them. Drawing from several theoretical sources (Ricœur, Foucault, de Certeau, Turner, Geertz), it underlines the specific nature of the often heterotopical or liminal spaces in which Schlesinger places his characters and interprets fictional writing as a privileged space of self-apprehension and self-construction in history. While focused on the fictional writings, the analyses also uses the author’s essays and autobiographical texts as well as the Klaus Schlesinger archives of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (correspondence, first drafts, text fragments, Stasi surveillance files, reviews, interviews)
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Nigrin, Tomáš. "Izolovaný ostrov : Západní Berlín pod správou Willyho Brandta (1961-1966). Město za berlínskou zdí." Doctoral thesis, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-299130.
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This thesis "An Isolated Island: West Berlin under Willy Brandt (1961- 1966). The city behind the Berlin Wall" concentrates on West Berlin between 1961 and 1966 and on the political initiatives of Willy Brandt as a Governing Mayor of the city. The city, which became immediately after World War II a central point of Cold War tensions between the East and the West, remained after the first Berlin Crisis the last gap in the Iron Curtain, where the two worlds - the East and the West - met face to face. After the construction of the Berlin wall the city experienced a shock, which it overcame very fast, and benefited from the subsequent changes thanks to extraordinary work of the Mayor Willy Brandt. His new political style and new communicative approach to politics transformed the situation in the city and led to rapid modernization and development. He was able to secure moral, political and above all financial support for the city for a long time period, which enabled to turn the city into a "showcase of democracy in the middle of the communist sea". Such a success in West Berlin elevated Willy Brandt into the highest political posts in Federal Republic of Germany.
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Dahl, Mark David. "The Berlin Passes Agreements and West German Deutschlandpolitik, 1963-64." 1996. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/35032729.html.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-74).
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Erickson, Bailee Maru. ""Leave your men at home": autonomy in the West German women's movement, 1968-1978." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2654.
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This thesis examines “autonomy” as a political goal of the West German women’s movement from its beginning in 1968 to 1978. As the central concept of the movement, autonomy was interpreted and applied in women’s groups and projects through a variety of organizational principles. The thesis takes case studies of different feminist projects. Successive chapters examine the Berlin Women’s Centre; Verena Stefan’s novel Shedding, the women’s press Frauenoffensive, and the women’s bookstore Labrys; and the periodicals Frauenzeitung, Courage, and Emma. These studies show that autonomously organized projects were characterized by the expression of an anti-hierarchical ethos. The Berlin Women’s Centre organized itself around collective decision making and self sustainability. Women’s writing and publishing projects established an alternative literary space. National feminist periodicals created journalistic spaces capable of coordinating the movement while subverting a dominant viewpoint. These examples illustrate how networks of autonomous projects established an autonomous cultural counter-sphere both separate and different from the established public sphere.