Within Walls
(Sprache: Englisch)
A history of private life in the German Democratic Republic, showing how the private sphere assumed central importance in the GDR from the very outset, and revealing the myriad ways in which privacy was expressed, staged and defended by citizens living in a communist society.
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A history of private life in the German Democratic Republic, showing how the private sphere assumed central importance in the GDR from the very outset, and revealing the myriad ways in which privacy was expressed, staged and defended by citizens living in a communist society.
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Private life in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) is often seen as having been virtually non-existent, simply another East German commodity forever in short supply. In part this had to do with the common perception that private life and state socialism were at odds by definition, to the extent that the private person has no legal identity or political standing outside the socialist community. The East German regime's infamous surveillance techniques, bestillustrated in the notorious exploits of the state's sprawling security force - the Stasi - and its reserve army of 'unofficial collaborators', further dramatized the full penetration of the state into the private sphere.
Within Walls takes a different perspective. Paul Betts shows how, despite the primacy of public identities, the private sphere assumed central importance in the GDR from the very outset, and was especially pronounced in the regime's former capital city. In a world in which social interaction was heavily monitored, private life functioned for many citizens as a cherished arena of individuality, alternative identity-formation, and potential dissent. The book carefully charts the
changing meaning of private life in the GDR across a variety of fields, ranging from law to photography, religion to interior decoration, family living to memoir literature, revealing the myriad ways in which privacy was expressed, staged, and defended by citizens living in a communist society.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Within Walls “
Introduction: Privacy in an Enclosed State; Section I: Secret Societies, Public Institutions, Private Lives; 1: Tyranny of Intimacy: The Stasi and East German Society; 2: East of Eden: Christian Subculture in State Socialism; 3: Intimacy on Display: Getting Divorced in East Berlin; Section II: Domestic Ideals, Social Rights, Lived Experiences; 4: Building Socialism at Home: Remaking Interiors and Citizens; 5: Property, Noise, and Honor: Neighborhood Justice in East Berlin; 6: Socialism's Social Contract: Citizen Complaints; 7: Picturing Privacy: Photography and Domesticity; Epilogue: The House of Spirits: 1989, Civil Rights, and the Reclamation of Private Life; Bibliography; Index
Autoren-Porträt von Paul Betts
Paul Betts joined St Anthony's College Oxford as Professor of Modern European History in October 2012. Prior to this, he taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1996-1999, and at the University of Sussex, 2000-2012. He has published numerous works on post-war German history, including The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (2004), and was the joint editor of the journal German Historyfrom 2003-2009.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Betts
- 2010, XI, 321 Seiten, 42 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 16,5 x 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199208840
- ISBN-13: 9780199208845
Sprache:
Englisch
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this is a work of the highest level, crucial to the field, and a model of scholarship to be followed by historians of the GDR, Germany, and beyond for years to come. Eli Rubin, Central European History Within Walls is an outstanding and timely study...an eye-opening book that will be a necessary companion to any study concerned with the reality of socialist life in East Germany. Ulrike Zitzlsperger, Times Higher Education ... a great contribution to our knowledge of private life in the GDR. Yet for a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany his contribution and especially his methodological approach are even more stimulating ... it will set higher standards for any work on the history of everyday life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Heikki Lempa, German History highly illuminating Dorothee Wierling, German Historical Institute London Bulletin thoroughly researched and elegantly written. It fills an important gap in the social and cultural history of the GDR. Mark Fenemore, Cultural and Social History
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