Historical changes of energy input into agroecosystems and their landscape ecological consequences, the Lingen/Emsland County (West Germany) case study

This chapter examines the relocation, transition, and appropriation of the Spaghetti Western in a hitherto under-researched context: the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), prior to its unification with the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in 1990. It explores the selection, distribution and reception of Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West, Sergio Leone, 1968) in the German Democratic Republic as a case study of how international cultural transfer causes objects of cultural production to be repositioned as they enter a new reception context. It also examines the ideological, economic, and sociological concerns underpinning the decisions of those who facilitated the movement of film across the political, cultural, and linguistic boundaries of nation states. In East Germany, the facilitators involved in the selection, censorship, dubbing, and promotion of films were mainly government administrators rather than film business professionals, because film was a state-controlled industry. The chapter focuses on the ‘official’ reception of the film on the basis of available censorship protocols and government policy papers, as well as print media sources.

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Post-unification (East) German Documentary and the Contradictions of Identity

Post-1990 Documentary ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694136.003.0002 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Barton Byg

Keyword(s):

West Germany ◽

Berlin Wall ◽

Post Cold War ◽

East And West Germany ◽

East German ◽

Innovative Enterprise ◽

East And West ◽

The Individual

This chapter focuses on the three major themes that have helped make the integration between East and West German documentary filmmakers successful and have contributed new strengths to German independent documentary as a productive and innovative enterprise. It first illustrates the phenomenon of collaboration between filmmakers from both East and West Germany, which preceded the fall of the Berlin Wall and provides the basis for unique accomplishments in documentary. Then, partly based on these East–West collaborations, it discuss examples of German documentary's frequent explorations of non-European topics, which challenge the clear separation of European and non-European in both politics and film art. Here, the film collaborations between Helga Reidemeister and Lars Barthel will serve as a case study. Finally, also as a result of decades of experimentation with the nature of the film medium's presentation of ‘reality’, ‘history’, and the individual human subject, Thomas Heise's German ‘portrait film’ Barluschke (1997) is explored as an example of this defining quality of independent German documentary filmmaking in the context of the post-Cold War.

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Memory as State Behaviour

Collective Memory in International Relations ◽

10.1093/oso/9780192895363.003.0005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 87-119

Author(s):

Kathrin Bachleitner

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Collective Memory ◽

West Germany ◽

Ontological Security ◽

Collective Memories ◽

Yom Kippur War ◽

State Behaviour ◽

Emotional Trigger ◽

Oil Crisis

This chapter shows how collective memory channels a country’s international behaviour. To that end, it first lays out the nexus between memory and state behaviour put forward by the temporal security concept. It then goes on to distinguish it from international relations’ classical realist and ontological security approaches and their predictions on state behaviour. To keep their temporal security intact, countries are assumed to enter into an ‘in-between-time’ conversation with their ‘significant historical others’. Through the emotional trigger of shame, policymakers avoid potential disconnects with their country’s ‘narrated self in the past’, thus bringing their courses of action in line with collective memory. To illustrate this process, the empirical case study looks at the reaction of West Germany and Austria to two wars in the Middle East. It contrasts their support for either of the warring parties during the Six Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War and international oil crisis of 1973. The qualitative analysis demonstrates that West Germany and Austria’s different collective memories of the Nazi legacy channelled their behaviour along diverse reasonings to support either the Israeli or the Arab side.

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Landscape Ecological Structure in a Suburban Area: Case Study

10.1007/978-3-030-58092-6_18 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 285-296

Author(s):

Renata Różycka-Czas ◽

Barbara Czesak ◽

Wojciech Sroka

Keyword(s):

Suburban Area ◽

Ecological Structure ◽

Landscape Ecological

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Socio-economic transformation of small towns in East Germany after 1990 - Colditz case study

Bulletin of Geography Socio-economic series ◽

10.2478/v10089-012-0004-6 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 17 (17) ◽

pp. 33-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Waldemar Cudny

Keyword(s):

East Germany ◽

Small Towns ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

West Germany ◽

Social Changes ◽

East And West Germany ◽

Spatial Changes ◽

Size Population ◽

The Town

Socio-economic transformation of small towns in East Germany after 1990 - Colditz case study The article presents the main demographic and social, as well as functional and spatial changes that took place in Colditz after 1990. The town is inhabited by 4,870 people (2009) and is situated in Saxony, in the area of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). The aim of the article is to present the main changes, which took place there after East and West Germany reunited in 1990. The author describes demographic and social changes in the population size, population growth, migration balance, unemployment, and other elements of urban community. Moreover, the article presents the changes in the economic-functional structure, such as de-industrialisation, succession of urban functions, and tourism development, as well as the main spatial changes in Colditz, such as architectural revitalisation and reconstruction of urban infrastructure. In the conclusions, the author briefly presents potential directions in the future development of the town.

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