Östtyskland, DDR

For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, …

In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children …

Den Tyske Demokratiske Republik – DDR – blev oprettet i 1949 og opløst ved den tyske genforening i 1990. Men DDR var mere end en parentes i den europæiske historie. I kraft af den …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 (FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR) –––––––––––– A club on the rise. A city in flux. This is Union Berlin. No football club in the …

Explores the psychology of literary translingualism in the works of two authors, finding it expressed as loss and fragmentation in one case and as opportunity and mediation in the …

In six months bridging 1989 and 1990, the German Democratic Republic underwent a transformation that took the world almost completely by surprise.  Yet unlike the revolution in …

The fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state. Meanwhile, comparatively little …

A nation, in the words of Nelson Mandela, ‘should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones’. Shadowland tells the sometimes inspiring, often painful …

Renhet er fortellingen om en ung kvinnes leting etter faren hun aldri har møtt og hvordan jakten på faren driver henne inn i kraftfeltet til en karismatisk varsler og lovløs …

Culture from the Slums explores the history of punk rock in East and West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. These decades witnessed an explosion of alternative culture across …