scholarly journals Culture in the service of politics. The German question and relations between the German Democratic Republic and the Polish People’s Republic

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-419
Author(s):  
Marek Ostrowski
Keyword(s):  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
German Question ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Parallel Fashion

The politics of memory and culture of the Polish People’s Republic alludes to Ideologiekritik in its idiosyncratic way characterized by Marxist utopianism. In reality, this leads to reversing this theory. The causes of fascism are seen in “German imperialism”. For political and strategic reasons the German Democratic Republic becomes one of the main partners of the Polish People’s Republic, with regard to which it is capable of accomplishing the guidelines of its policy in the cultural dimension. This is accompanied by an intensive cultural exchange between the two countries. In the language of official politics manifested, for instance, in the strategy of publishing houses of the Polish People’s Republic the culture of the two countries develop in a parallel fashion, which is an obvious product of the propaganda.

The GDR, Luther, and the German Question

1986 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
West Germany ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
German Question ◽  
East German ◽  
Democratic Revolution ◽  
Domestic Support ◽  
Socialist Unity

The East German government's commemoration in 1983 of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth exemplifies its continuing effort to broaden domestic support by arguing over a thirty-year period that the regime's values are deeply rooted in German civilization. The representation of Luther in the German Democratic Republic has evolved from caricature to sophisticated portraiture. Fundamental to this reinterpretation has been the association of Luther with the bourgeois-democratic revolution, a process which the ruling Socialist Unity party claims to have completed in the course of establishing the GDR. Continuing interaction between East and West Germany has complicated the GDR's effort to utilize historical symbols in developing a unified political culture.

The Lao Động Party, Culture and the Campaign against “Modern Revisionism”

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-129
Author(s):  
Martin Grossheim
Keyword(s):  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Second Indochina War ◽  
North Vietnam ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Indochina War

The article tries to make a contribution to the reassessment of the Second Indochina War and of the significance of culture in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam before and during the conflict. By making use of as-yet untapped sources from the German Democratic Republic archives, DRV periodicals and interviews with Vietnamese informants, I highlight the cultural dimension of the campaign against modern revisionism in 1964, and thus present the Lao Động leadership as an actor on the cultural front of the Vietnam conflict. Moreover, I show that even after the beginning of the war an anti-revisionist undercurrent in cultural policy persisted and that the anti-revisionist campaign in 1964 was closely related to the Anti-Party Revisionist Affair in 1967. The article also sheds light on the impact of the Sino-Soviet conflict on North Vietnam.

Issues Surrounding the Development of the Neo-Nazi Scene in East Berlin

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Brothers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Reich

The rise of neo-Nazism in the capital of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was not inspired by a desire to recreate Hitler's Reich, but by youthful rebellion against the political and social culture of the GDR's Communist regime. This is detailed in Fuehrer-Ex: Memoirs of a Former Neo-Naxi by Ingo Hasselbach with Tom Reiss (Random House, New York, 1996). This movement, however, eventually worked towards returning Germany to its former 'glory' under the Third Reich under the guidance of 'professional' Nazis.

On the automodel properties of the counter-current regurlarly stacked trickle bed columns

1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Gierczycki ◽  
Vladimír Staněk ◽  
Petr Vychodil ◽  
Vladimír Jiřičný ◽  
Jerzy Pikoń ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Liquid Velocity ◽  
Empirical Correlations ◽  
Hydrodynamic Behaviour ◽  
Trickle Bed ◽  
Counter Current

An approach utilizing the automodel properties in describing the hydrodynamic behaviour of counter-current columns has been extended to regularly stacked beds. Two new kinds of the packing have been investigated: The so-called K-packing, developed in the German Democratic Republic and the Cellular packing, developed in Poland. The results of experiments have been presented in the form of plots of the normalized liquid hold-up, hp, versus the normalized liquid velocity, Ql, and two empirical correlations. A comparison with previous results with randomly packed counter-current trickle bed columns has also been made.

scholarly journals Music for International Solidarity: Performances of Race and Otherness in the German Democratic Republic

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
ELAINE KELLY
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
West Germany ◽  
International Solidarity

AbstractCentral to the official identity of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was the state's positioning of itself as the antifascist and anti-colonial other to West Germany. This claim was supported by the GDR's extensive programme of international solidarity, which was targeted at causes such as the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. A paradox existed, however, between the vision of a universal proletariat that underpinned the discourse of solidarity and the decidedly more exclusive construct of socialist identity that was fostered in the GDR itself. In this article, I explore some of the processes of othering that were embedded in solidarity narratives by focusing on two quite contrasting musical outputs that were produced in the name of solidarity: the LP Kämpfendes Vietnam, which was released on the Amiga record label in 1967, and the Deutsche Staatsoper's 1973 production of Ernst Hermann Meyer's anti-apartheid opera, Reiter der Nacht.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document