45th Annual German Studies Association Conference Indianapolis, IN, September 30-October 3, 2021 Since the publication of Jana Hensel’s Zonenkinder…
Webinar Series “Richtung Osten: Old Matters, New Chances, Different Perspectives”
December 2020 – May 2021 As the year of the 30th anniversary of the German unification draws to an end,…
Statement on the Continuous Murdering of Black People
We, members of the Third Generation Ost, are condemning the recent murders of Georg Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and…
Christian Petzold’s Cinema of Haunted Figures
The first contribution to “Vereinigung” (unification), a subject that will be the main focus in our network during this year,…
An Online Symposium 30 Years After the Fall of the Wall
This project examines political, social, and cultural movements and tendencies that existed in the German Democratic Republic, teasing out potentials,…
Poetic Visibility: East German Poetry and Blackness in Farbe Bekennen (1986)
In 1986 a group of Black German feminist poets stirred up the West German literary scene. As a result of…
Why studying the GDR still matters today – The GDR as Lived Experience
In their introduction to the volume The GDR Today: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to East German History, Memory and Culture (2018),…
Kunst und Macht. Lutz Dammbeck in Australia
FEATURED ESSAY How and when do artists become complicit with power, entangled in its strategies that sometimes surpass their awareness?…
Afro Germans
Amateur Photography
Berlin Wall
Black Germans
Collaboration
coming to terms
Consumerism
cultural memory
Discourses
Diversity
East German Art
East German history
East Germans in Mozambique
East Germany
family memory
GDR
GDR Studies
Holmbleibt
Identity
installation
lutz dammbeck
Marketing Socialism
Mauerfall
memory
modern art
narratives
Poetry
private photographs
Research
Stasi
Teaching the GDR
Transformation
Transition