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Virtual Walls?: Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Germany

Virtual Walls?: Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Germany

Lys, Franziska
Dreyer, Michael
Eis, Andreas

Hardcover

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Book 184

Literary CriticismGeneral Political ScienceGerman History

ISBN10: 157113980X
ISBN13: 9781571139801
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Published: Dec 8 2017
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished journey.

On October 3, 1990, just a year after the Berlin Wall fell, the German Democratic Republic was absorbed into the Federal Republic of Germany, officially ceasing to exist. What was the GDR and how do we remember it? According to the dominant Western narrative, it was a country that brought neither unity nor justice nor freedom to its citizens. But if so, why does a virtual wall still seem to exist in Germany today between the erstwhile citizens of the GDR and FRG? The GDR very much remains in the public debate, and while political integration is well on its way, the cultural integration of the two former states has proven much more challenging.

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