Building an East German Nation: The Construction of a SocialistHeimat, 1945–1961

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Palmowski
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
German Empire ◽  
State And Society ◽  
German Nation ◽  
History Of ◽  
East German ◽  
And Gender

Followingthe GDR's surprising collapse in 1989, historians have produced a range of studies that have added new contours to its state and society and contributed to a much fuller understanding of the reasons for East Germany's implosion. As scholars became more aware of the “limits of dictatorship” in the GDR, however, the longevity of a state that lasted for almost as long as the second German Empire became all the more perplexing. In response to this problem, a number of historians reflected on approaches practiced by historical anthropologists and sociologists, to explore the distinctive nature of GDR life in its everyday manifestations. Inspired by the pioneering work of Alf Lüdtke and Lutz Niethammer, they began to investigate the history of everyday life at the workplace, within and across generational and gender divides, and in areas such as consumption and leisure.

Similarities and Differences between West and East German Primers, 1945–1949

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-96
Author(s):  
Verena Stürmer
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
History Of Reading ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
History Of ◽  
East German ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Almost All

The ban on almost all previously approved textbooks in occupied Germany in 1945 brought about a turning point in the history of reading primers in this country. This article examines the requirements that textbooks had to fulfill in order to be approved by the authorities of the various occupation zones. In spite of differing sociopolitical and pedagogical attitudes and conditions, reading primersin all occupied zones shared the theme of children’s play and harmonious everyday life. However, a comparative analysis of the primers reveals significant differences that cannot be explained exclusively as a consequence of influence exerted by occupying powers. Rather, these differences resulted from the context in which each primer appeared.

scholarly journals Correspondence of Front-Line Soldiers with Tyumen Residents as a Source on the History of Everyday Life during the Great Patriotic War (1941—1945).

2020 ◽  
pp. 308-321
Author(s):  
I. V. Skipina ◽  
E. I. Dubnitskaya
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
The State ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The Past ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Archives

The 1941—1945 correspondence between servicemen and fellow countrymen, kept in the State Archives of the Tyumen Region is examined in the article. Letters are considered as documents with high information potential, giving new knowledge about the war, obtained on the basis of studying the communications of ordinary participants in the events. The purpose of the publication is to show letters from the front as a source on the history of everyday life, filled with communication of close people on issues important to them, allowing them to reconstruct their life activities, analyze the experience of the past, and use the results of research in modern reality. Correspondence allows us to consider military everyday life as part of big politics and as a personal experience, to expand the source component of the discourse on the history of the Great Patriotic War, contributing to a scientific assessment of the experience and understanding of its historical significance. It is proved that collective and personal letters, appeals “to power” testify that the war, having become a time of difficult trials, stimulated the formation of an identity characterized by the unity of the state and society with the prevalence of socially significant values over individual ones.

scholarly journals Kotiseutu kulttuuriperintöprosessina – saksalainen kokemus

Elore ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Outi Tuomi-Nikula
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
East German ◽  
Conceptual Shift

Home district as a process of cultural heritage – the German experience This article examines the interpretations of the home or home district (Heimat), and is based on the memories and experiences of the East Germans. The use of the concept ’home district’ has changed in the West German macro level discourse. Formerly one’s home district was the place in which an individual had domicile rights and duties. From this description there has been a gradual shift towards more diverse connections to personal identity. The concept of home district has changed in accordance with the ever-changing life situations of the post-modern individual. The author has used this conceptual shift as a background to the life experiences of her interviewees. The interviews were conducted in the Mecklenburg area in 2007–2008, in connection to a larger research project funded by the Academy of Finland, entitled ”At home in a conserved house – the East German experience”. The author is aiming to show that the ”secondary knowledge” as related by the inhabitants and the image provided by the official documents of socialist Germany did not meet in everyday life. People give meaning and significance to their home district according to their personal life history and also depending on the type of housing they live in. The three different interpretations of the ’home district’ that have been chosen from the data show that secondary knowledge provides new interpretations of the history of socialist Germany. It is history outside official documents.

scholarly journals Food, Gender and Media - the Trinity of Bad Taste: A Conversation with Karen Klitgaard Povlsen

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonatan Leer ◽  
Katrine Meldgaard Kjær
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Current Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender And Media ◽  
The Trinity

Food, Gender and Media – the Trinity of Bad Taste:Since she began working in the field in the mid-1980s, associate professor in media studies at Aarhus University Karen Klitgaard Povlsen has been one of most important scholars in the field of cultural food studies in Denmark. She is particularly interested in food in relation to gender and media, and has published widely on the subject. In this interview, she provides a Danish perspectiveon the study of food and gender, including a brief history of the area and her thoughts on its current status and potentials. Povlsen argues that while gender studies do not enjoy the same prominence today as they did in the 1970s and 1980s, food studies has gained terrain and offers new ways of doing innovative, intersectional analyses of identity and everyday life in contemporarymediatized societies.

scholarly journals Gender in Russian history: review of the latest researches

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey I Resnyansky ◽  
Irina S Amiantova
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

The article reviews the works of gender studies published over the past 30 years, with the aim to show and generalize what is proposed in historiography and special literature about the relationship between historical sciences and gender studies. Firstly, the paper offers an updated concept of gender in relation to the different periods of the country’s history - tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet. Secondly, the paper discusses the formation and gradual development of gender studies and gender discourse. The study reveals an uneven growth in the number of descriptive and empirical gender studies, which can be explained in correlation with socio-economic and political changes throughout Russia’s historical path. The correlation between the dynamic evolution of gender and the peculiarities of the historical path of the country has not been sufficiently studied; its analysis offers historians the opportunity to describe and explain the unique models of male/female (gender) relations and their evolution. So far gender studies have little to offer that would help identify, describe and explain the national specificity of gender, correlated with the specifics of national history in chronological and spatial-territorial terms. Future historians should also focus on developing methodological tools and a language that can foster interaction between historical, post-structuralist and feminist approaches. This will require a drastic transition in historical research to previously ignored topics and to more innovative, in-depth and qualitative research methods, such as the history of the life of ethnic groups and peoples of Russia at different stages of development of state and society next to case studies of gender and discourse analysis.

In and Out of the Ostmark Migration, Settlement, and Demographics in Poznania, 1871–1918

Itinerario ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Drummond Elizabeth A.
Keyword(s):  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
German History ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
German Empire ◽  
German Nation ◽  
Global Presence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dominant Narratives

Historians have often viewed the history of the German empire with Berlin firmly in the centre of the lens, thus privileging the nation-state to the neglect of both the local and the transnational. Zooming out to include transnational processes such as migration and to globalise German history enables us to complicate the dominant narratives of the German nation-state. The movements of Germans overseas—whether as migrants, missionaries, or merchants—helped to forge a global presence for the German empire, but also entailed complex negotiations both among Germans and between Germans and their various “others,” thus revealing the ways in which German nationalist and colonial discourses and practices adapted to local conditions. While the German empire sought to establish itself as a colonial power abroad only in the late nineteenth century, Prussia-Germany was already a colonial power at home, in its eastern provinces. Zooming back in from the global to the local, and refocusing from Berlin to the borderlands, further complicates our understandings of the German empire, by revealing the ways in which local conditions in the eastern borderlands, themselves influenced by transnational phenomena such as international migration, informed the development of German nationalism there. Most notably, the demographics of the Prussian eastern provinces—and the movements of Jews, Germans, Poles, and Ruthenians/Ukrainians in and out of the region—required German nationalists to integrate greater flexibility into their discourse.

Żydzi z Chmielnika w czasie okupacji niemieckiej (1939–1943)

2007 ◽  
pp. 42-63
Author(s):  
Sara Bender
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
History Of

The author discusses the history of the Jews of Chmielnik, a town situated 30 kilometres away from Kielce: from a short introduction covering the inter-war period, through the German invasion, ghetto formation, everyday life n the ghetto, deportations and the fate of the survivors. The author extensively describes social organisations and their activity in Chmielnik  (Judenrat, Ha Szomer ha-Cair), as well as the contacts between the Jews and the Poles.

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