Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Karin Bauer, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Karin Bauer, Jennifer Ruth Hosek

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781789205220
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785337215
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Human Geography
• Index: Social Sciences

Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the "New Berlin" is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany's largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• Part I — Contesting Gentrification: Subculture to Mainstream
• Chapter 1 — Cultural History of Post-Wall Berlin: From Utopian Longing to Nostalgia for Babylon
• Chapter 2 — Taking a Walk on the Wild Side: Berlin and Christiane F.'s Second Life
• Chapter 3 — Representations and Interpretations of the New Berlin in Contemporary German Comics
• Part II — Spaces, Monuments, and the Appropriation of History
• Chapter 4 — Reconfiguring the Spaces of the "Creative Class" in Contemporary Berlin
• Chapter 5 — Negotiating Cold War Legacies: The Discursive Ambiguity of Berlin's Memory Sites
• Chapter 6 — Branding the New Germany: The Brandenburg Gate and a New Kind of German Historical Amnesia
• Chapter 7 — Disappearing History: Challenges of Imagining Berlin after 1989
• Part III — Reimagining Integration
• Chapter 8 — Governing through "Ethnic Entrepreneurship"
• Chapter 9 — Resisting Integration: Neukölin Artist Responses to Integration Politics
• Chapter 10 — The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary Berlin
• Chapter 11 — Berlin's International Literature Festival: Globalizing the Bildungsbürger
• Part IV — Berlin Memoryscapes of the Present
• Chapter 12 — Transnational Cityscapes: Tracking Turkish-German Hi/Stories in Postwar Berlin
• Chapter 13 — Israeli Jews in the New Berlin: From Shoah Memories to Middle Eastern Encounters
• Chapter 14 — Through the Eyes of Angels and Vampires: Berlin Ruins in Wings of Desire and We Are the Night
• Chapter 15 — The Uncanny City: Berlin in International Film
• Index