Abstracts of the Meeting of the German Society of Psychophysiology June 3-5, 1999, Trier**This is the second part of the abstracts from this meeting. The first part was printed in the past issue 1-2001 of the journal.

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-153
Keyword(s):  
German Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Issue

The Afterlife of a Tribunal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Orentlicher
Keyword(s):  
Extended Period ◽  
German Society ◽  
Norm Diffusion ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
The Past ◽  
Operational Life ◽  
Local Impact

The span of an international tribunal’s local impact is not the same as its operational life, as Germany’s evolved relationship with Nuremberg highlights. Recognizing that the ICTY’s impact in Bosnia and Serbia will continue to evolve after the Tribunal ends its work, this chapter considers the Tribunal’s future impact, focusing in particular on its potential to stimulate a future reckoning with Serbia’s wartime past. While recognizing myriad differences between post-Milošević Serbia and postwar Germany, this chapter explores factors behind the latter’s eventual emergence as a “model penitent” long after German society rejected the moral message the Allies hoped Nuremberg would impart. It suggests that, after an extended period of “transitional denial,” Nuremberg may have contributed to Germany’s far-reaching reckoning with the past through a process of delayed norm diffusion.

The National People's Army as an Object of (Non) Remembrance: The Place of East Germany's Military Heritage in Unified Germany

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 150-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Leonhard
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
German Society ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
General Attitude ◽  
The Past ◽  
East German ◽  
Examination Process

On 3 October 1990, the National People's Army (NVA) of the German Democratic Republic, in which about 2.5 million East German citizens served their country, was dissolved. Its personnel either was removed from military service, placed into early retirement, or integrated into the Bundeswehr after a two-year selection and examination process. Since then, the NVA has turned into an object of history with no immediate significance for contemporary German society—despite efforts of former NVA officers to change the official interpretation of 1989-1990. This article examines the processes of remembering and forgetting with regard to East Germany's military heritage since 1990, contrasting the Bundeswehr's politics of memory and “army of unity” ethos not only with the former NVA soldiers' vision of the past, but also with the East German population's general attitude towards their former armed forces.

Ciprian Porumbescu. Mică poveste despre rochia Berthei (o incursiune printre manuscrise, ediții etc.)

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 79-96
Author(s):  
Mircea Diaconu
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
German Society ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Original Text ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Analytical Recovery ◽  
History Of

A young Romanian composer from the Austrian Bucovina, Ciprian Porumbescu (1853-1883) is an important figure of the local cultural mythology. This fact, we believe, is due to the association of his image with some ill-fated aspects of his life, such as an impossible love, his premature death, his exultant talent, maybe even his ardent patriotism. In my attempts at recovering the past cultural life of Bucovina, I discovered the journal of Ciprian Porumbescu (that probably includes a rich correspondence as well), written around 1878-1883. I am not talking about a journal on creation, nor about one related to political life. That, in spite of the fact that he was arrested for being the president of a student’s society that had a nationalist nature, yet he didn’t hesitate afterwards being one of the leaders of an international German society. Unfortunately, the above mentioned journal is absent from the public space and the history of its recovery and editing is in itself a history of a failure. That is why, this study is an analysis of the different existing editions of it – that could be described as fragmented, or improvised. In what regards the title of the article, it hints at the imprecisions in transcribing the original text, the difficulties posed by the German existing versions and also at the deficiency of the Romanian translations. Yet, besides all of these, the journal of Ciprian Porumbescu is an exceptional biographical document. Thus, the critique of the existing editions could represent a fist attempt at a textual and analytical recovery of the actual journal.

The Reichstag and the New Berlin

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Ann Ross
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
German Society ◽  
German History ◽  
World War ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Past ◽  
German Parliament ◽  
The City ◽  
Democratic Country

This work examines the Reichstag’s emblematic role in Berlin’s history. Today the Reichstag is a major tourist attraction and home to Germany’s democratic parliament. However, the building has had a complicated history spanning five distinct times in German history: the Imperial Age and World War I, the troubled Weimar Republic, Nazism and World War II, the divided Cold War, and finally a unified Germany. The progressions of the building mirror those of German society and the city of Berlin over the pasts century, culminating in the vibrant Western European democratic country, city, and building we see today. Specifically, the revitalization of the Reichstag building itself through Christo’s wrapping project and Sir Norman Foster’s reconstruction were vital steps for a torn city to embrace its past while transitioning the building from a history museum into the seat of the German parliament. Furthermore, this change is emblematic of Berlin as a whole, in its quest for its own Hauptstadtkultur as the capital moved back to Berlin from Bonn. Architecture has played a significant role in this New Berlin, and the case of the Reichstag building is no different. Foster’s design, adding a modernist glass and steel dome to the nineteenth century building, emphasizes political transparency while maintaining traces of the past. Focusing on the example of the Reichstag, I argue that this merging of history and hope for the future has proved essential and successful, though often controversial, in recreating a unified, vibrant, and strong Berlin.

In Search of the (Rural) Catholic Bourgeoisie: TheBürgertumof South Germany

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oded Heilbronner
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
German Society ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Regional Model ◽  
Regional Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American

Theintensive involvement with the German bourgeoisie (Bürgertum) during the past decade has found scholars busy pasting labels on a social group that they sweepingly termed the “bourgeoisie.” Yet, the studies of a number of German and Anglo-American scholars have focused mainly on the urban Protestant bourgeoisie, while the rural (small towns and villages with less than 5,000 inhabitants) bourgeoisie and the Catholic bourgeoisie have received little attention. Considering the fact that rural society still comprised one of the main features of the European landscape, and that Catholics were approximately one third of the population during the second half of nineteenth-century Germany, the neglect of this group becomes even more surprising. Is it possible to write the history of the German bourgeoisie without its countryside elements (Bürgertum auf dem Lande) and without its Catholic bourgeoisie? Can so prominent a sector of German society be this casually dismissed? This article seeks to examine the issue from a number of different perspectives. Using a regional survey, it will show the existence of a Catholic bourgeois stratum in southern Germany (largely in the rural areas) and, through the presentation of a regional model, it will also attempt to sketch, albeit in broad strokes, some of the more pertinent aspects of the German Catholic bourgeoisie.

scholarly journals The Frankfurt trial (1963—1965) and overcoming the past in Germany

Lex Russica ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 146-158
Author(s):  
A. P. Grakhotskiy
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
German Society ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Life Imprisonment ◽  
The Past ◽  
War Criminals ◽  
Post War

In the first post-war decades in Germany the problem of crimes of the Nazi regime was hushed up. Information about the flagrant crimes of the Nazis in the concentration camps was perceived by the Germans as “propaganda of the winners”. The Frankfurt process of 1963-1965 was an event that contributed to the understanding of the criminal past of its country by the German society. Before the court in Frankfurt there appeared 22 Nazi war criminals who were accused of murder and complicity in the killing of prisoners of concentration camps and death camps of Auschwitz. During the trial, horrific facts of mass destruction of people and unprecedented cases of humiliation of human dignity were revealed. The position of the prosecution was that the defendants voluntarily served in Auschwitz, realizing that the main purpose of the operation of the camp is the mass destruction of Jews, purposefully participating in the implementation of a common criminal plan. The defense adhered to the strategy that the defendants were only weak-willed executors of the orders of the highest Nazi leadership and were forced to commit crimes at the risk of their own lives. None of the accused pleaded guilty, and in their closing speeches they expressed neither regret nor remorse to the victims and their relatives. The verdict of the jury was soft: only 6 accused were sentenced to life imprisonment, the rest received various (from 3 to 14 years) terms of imprisonment, three were acquitted. However, the significance of the Frankfurt trial exceeds the purpose of the criminal punishment of the Nazi criminals. The process became a milestone in the course of overcoming by the Germans of their recent past, the awareness of the responsibility of German society for the crimes of national socialism.

scholarly journals Historical “Truth,” Constructed Memory: Restaging Germany’s Reunification in Thomas Berger’s Television Melodrama Wir sind das Volk. Liebe kennt keine Grenzen (We are the people. Love without limits) (2008)

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-49
Author(s):  
Katrin B Mascha
Keyword(s):  
German Society ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Historical Truth

Film and television are popular media for the (re)presentation of history and the depiction of momentous past events. Germany’s reunification is no exception. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany has witnessed a proliferation of media production that endeavors to historicize and aestheticize the past. This coincides with the need to forge a post-Wall identity of the new Germany. My discussion of Thomas Berger’s award winning television drama Wir sind das Volk. Liebe kennt keine Grenzen (2008) examines how reunification is presented in a mixture of fictitious elements and authentic historical reconstruction based on shared memories of this past. Following a melodramatic trajectory, the film aims at the reconciliation of German society as a people twenty years after reunification.

scholarly journals Analýza vývoje vnímání národní identity německou CDU v letech 1990–2009

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-112
Author(s):  
Michal Vít
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
German Society ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The Past ◽  
Election Manifestos ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Policy Shifts

The paper aims to explain the development of the perception of national identity of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU), the strongest German political party in the past few decades. The paper focuses on election manifestos for the 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2005, and 2009 elections. For this purpose, each manifesto is examined according to up to five analytical categories – such as values, nation, Europe, threats, and society. These categories explore the party’s perception in a wider context instead of focusing only on direct  references to national identity. The analysed period was divided into three phases with an emphasis on the internal crisis between the years 1998 and 2002. The crisis influenced policy priorities; therefore the perceptions of elements belonging to national identity were changed in order i) to gain victory in the general elections in 2002 and 2005, and ii) to reflect properly the state of German society. Therefore, significant policy shifts were made. These policy changes show how the party successfully integrated societal demands and preferences over the past decade. Thank to this, the CDU incorporated both conservative and liberal elements. This is evident in the case of incorporating liberal elements such as homosexual partnerships while, at the same time, actively stressing the importance of defending national interests.

Diversity in Germany: A Historical Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-29
Author(s):  
Cornelia Wilhelm
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Political Action ◽  
German Society ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Different Levels

This article explores the changing perception of "diversity" and "cultural difference" in Germany and shows how they were central in the construction of "self" and "other" throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries affecting minorities such as Jews, Poles, and others. It examines different levels of legal and political action toward minorities and immigrants in this process and explores how the perception and legal framework for the Turkish minority in the past sixty years was influenced by historical patterns of such perceptions and their memory. The article tries to shed some light on how the nature of coming-to-terms with the past ( Vergangenheitsbewältigung ) and the memory of the Holocaust have long prohibited a broader discussion on inclusion and exclusion in German society. It makes some suggestions as to what forced Germans in the postunification era to reconsider legislation, as well as society's approach to "self" and "other" under the auspices of the closing of the "postwar period" and a newly emerging united Europe.

“Consumption” of Past to Define Ethnic Identity in Real Time and Space

2020 ◽  
pp. 229-246
Author(s):  
Nino Okrostsvaridze ◽  
Elisabed Bzhalava
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
German Society ◽  
Foreign Country ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Perception Of Self

This research examines the strength of the Turkish Georgians ethnic identity in Turkey and Germany, issues of socialization with German society, and perception of “home” and “consumption” of the past to define ethnic identity. Consumption is not only a way of behaving, but it is also part of a way of life, which is defined by ethnic and religious identity, which itself defines consumer behaviour. A perception of self-identification, linkage with forefathers, and a search for a long-lost past are particularly necessary in foreign countries, and different reminders regarding the past and origin are considered to be the best means. Consumption of “past” and (re)construction of memories form a tight-knit ethnic unit in a foreign country, and institutionalization of own culture is so strong that many of the ethnic participants feel as if they were living in their own country. Ethnic “retailers” (communities, membership groups) provide the “emotional glue” that sticks ethnic participants together giving them a sense of identity.

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