Berlin - The Symphony Continues

Orchestrating Architectural, Social, and Artistic Change in Germany’s New Capital

Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson, Kristie A. Foell, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson, Kristie A. Foell

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9783110177237
• eBook ISBN: 9783110906806
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: German Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The sudden fall of the Berlin Wall is one of the defining images of the late twentieth century. The subsequent unification of Germany and the decision to return Berlin to its status as capital has made the constant changes within the city a matter of public interest. It also offered Berlin the opportunity to create a new image for itself, one that can serve as a counterbalance to the politically charged recent history of Berlin as the capital of Nazi Germany and former East Berlin as the capital of the German Democratic Republic. Poised between capitalist Western Europe and the former communist powers in Eastern Europe, Berlin occupies a fascinating geopolitical space. This anthology presents a unique glimpse into the various constituencies that make up Berlin and that impact the city's challenges and promises.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Berlin’s Symphony Continues: Architectural, Social and Artistic Change
• Physical Space
• Gedächtnis and Zukunft, Remembrance and the Future: A Photo-Essay
• Shifting Margins and Contested Centers: Changing Cinematic Visions of (West) Berlin
• Building on a Metaphor: Democracy, Transparency and the Berlin Reichstag
• “Neues, altes Tor zur Welt”: The New Central Station in the “New” Berlin
• Tracking Berlin: Along S-Bahn Linie 5
• Experiential Space
• The Collapse of Time: German History and Identity in Hubertus Siegert’s Berlin Babylon (2001) and Thomas Schadt’s Berlin: Sinfonie einer Großstadt (2002)
• The Symphony of a Capital City: Controversies of Reunification in the Berlin Music Community
• Mutual Othering: East and West Berliners Happily Divided?
• Heinz Bude’s Defining Construct for the Berlin Republic: The Generation Berlin
• Living Berlin: Autobiography and the City
• Representation
• Divided and Reunited Berlin in Peter Schneider’s Fiction
• Berlin Snapshots: Images of the City in Short Fiction
• No History, Just Stories: Revisiting Tradition in Berlin Films of the 1990s
• Growing Together, Growing Apart: Berlin Love Stories as Allegories of German Unification
• Weimar Project(ions) in Post-Unification Cinema
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX