Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012

Simon Ward

book: Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2016

Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin

Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012

Simon Ward

In the series Cities and Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048527045

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About this book

A case study of Berlin to see how the city has responded to challenges to memory created by rapid changes in politics, economics, society, and the built environment, ultimately arguing that the recovery of the experience of time is central to the practices of an emergent memory culture in the contemporary city.

Author / Editor information

Ward Simon :

Dr Simon Ward is Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at Durham University, where he teaches German literature and visual culture.

Reviews

"The scope of Ward’s arguments exceeds the specific context of Berlin and presents wider reflections on the relationship between the transformation of the city through cycles of destruction and rebuilding, and the ongoing need to address obsolescence and forgetting by creating a presence of the past. Thus, Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin is an essential book for readers interested in the relationship between time, place, and the city, and the distinctive trajectories of urban memory in postwar Berlin.'- Sandra Jasper, University of Cambridge, German Studies Review Volume 41, No. 1, February 2018

Review [in German] on literaturkritik.de by Stephan Ehrig: http://literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=23566.

"This book is highly recommended to all those who look for a new comprehensive approach toward postwar urban memory cultures in Berlin. It combines the implementation of accepted theories with a visual culture approach on the built environment and photography/film“simultaneously moving beyond the East-West divide as enshrined in the traditional 1945/1961/1989 narrative." - Jan Musekamp, H-Urban, H-Net Reviews, February 2018. Read the full review here.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	11
1. Remembering the ‘Murdered City’ Berlin 1957-1974 Open Access Download PDF	45
2. ‘Place Memory Work’ in Berlin 1975-1989 Open Access Download PDF	73
3. The Remembered City On Display, 1984-1993 Open Access Download PDF	113
4. In Search of a City? Urban Memory in Unified Berlin Open Access Download PDF	141
Conclusion The Collectives of Contemporary Urban Memory Open Access Download PDF	171
Epilogue Open Access Download PDF	179
Notes Open Access Download PDF	181
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	197
Filmography Open Access Download PDF	205
List of Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	207
Index Open Access Download PDF	209

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 212
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
- Other: 20 halftones
Keywords: Memory; urban; Berlin; archive; time

eBook

Published: June 13, 2016
ISBN: 9789048527045