Jüdische Museen zwischen gestern und morgen - Jewish Museums Past and Future
Jüdische Museen zwischen gestern und morgen - Jewish Museums Past and Future

Author: Danielle Spera

Publisher: StudienVerlag

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 3706557347

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Der 10. Band des vom Jüdischen Museum Wien herausgegebenen "Wiener Jahrbuchs für Jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und Museumswesen" ist im Zusammenhang mit der neuen permanenten Ausstellung entstanden, die im November 2013 eröffnet wurde. Dieser Band zeichnet die begleitenden Reflexionen zur Konzeption der neuen Dauerausstellung nach und gibt Einblick in die Kommunikation mit zwei Gruppen, die für die Arbeit am Museum von immanenter Bedeutung sind: zum einen die BesucherInnen des Museums, die sich aus unterschiedlicher Motivation und mit verschiedenem Hintergrund für einen Besuch im Jüdischen Museum Wien entscheiden, zum anderen die WissenschaftlerInnen und AutorInnen, die in ihren Disziplinen und Themen immer wieder auch jene Felder durchdenken, die von jüdischen Museen thematisiert und "ausgestellt" werden. Die Interviews mit Philipp Blom, Dan Diner, Maximilian Gottschlich, Albert Lichtblau, Eva Menasse, Oliver Rathkolb, Barbara Staudinger und Ruth Wodak führten Museums-Direktorin Danielle Spera und Chefkurator Werner Hanak-Lettner in der Vorbereitungszeit zur neuen permanenten Ausstellung. Erstmals erscheint ein Band aus dieser Reihe zweisprachig (Deutsch/Englisch).

Three Cities After Hitler
Three Cities After Hitler

Author: Andrew Demshuk

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2021-09-21

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 0822988577

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Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wrocław (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. Each city was rebuilt according to two intertwined modern trends. First, certain local edifices were chosen to be resurrected as “sacred sites” to redeem the national story after Nazism. Second, these tokens of a reimagined past were staged against the hegemony of modernist architecture and planning, which wiped out much of whatever was left of the urban landscape that had survived the war. All three cities thus emerged with simplified architectural narratives, whose historically layered complexities only survived in fragments where this twofold “redemptive reconstruction” after Nazism had proven less vigorous, sometimes because local citizens took action to save and appropriate them. Transcending both the Iron Curtain and freshly homogenized nation-states, three cities under three rival regimes shared a surprisingly common history before, during, and after Hitler—in terms of both top-down planning policies and residents’ spontaneous efforts to make home out of their city as its shape shifted around them.

Demolition on Karl Marx Square
Demolition on Karl Marx Square

Author: Andrew Demshuk

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0190645121

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The 1968 demolition of Leipzig's medieval University Church represents an essential turning point in relations between Communist authorities and the people they claimed to serve. The largest East German protest between the 1953 Uprising and 1989 Revolution, this intimate story clarifies how the "dictatorial" system operated and lost public belief.

Neo-historical East Berlin
Neo-historical East Berlin

Author: Florian Urban

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1351915347

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In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultaneously modern and historical, consisting of both redesign of old buildings and new architectural developments. Drawing from recently released archival sources and interviews with former key government officials, decision-makers and architects, this book sheds light not only on this unique programme in postmodern design, but also on the debates which were taking place with the Socialist government.

Moving Spaces and Places
Moving Spaces and Places

Author: Beitske Boonstra

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2022-08-09

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1800712286

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Moving Spaces and Places is a cross-disciplinary collection about movement as a transformative experience, showing how movement changes affect and percept of spaces and place and solidifies space into meaningful places.

Rebuilding Europe's Bombed Cities
Rebuilding Europe's Bombed Cities

Author: Jeffry M. Diefendorf

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-30

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1349104582

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An exploration of Europe's urban reconstruction after World War II, this volume contains 12 essays, based on new research which examine the significant architectural continuities in pre-war and post-war building. They highlight the unusual character of rebuilding in several case studies.

Bowling for Communism
Bowling for Communism

Author: Andrew Demshuk

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1501751670

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Bowling for Communism illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by exploring acts of "urban ingenuity" amid catastrophic urban decay. Andrew Demshuk profiles the creative activism of local communist officials who, with the help of scores of volunteers, constructed a palatial bowling alley without Berlin's knowledge or approval. In a city mired in disrepair, civic pride overcame resentment against a regime loathed for corruption, Stasi spies, and the Berlin Wall. Reconstructing such episodes through interviews and obscure archival materials, Demshuk shows how the public sphere functioned in Leipzig before the fall of communism. Hardly detached or inept, local officials worked around centralized failings to build a more humane city. And hardly disengaged, residents turned to black-market construction to patch up their surroundings. Because such "urban ingenuity" was premised on weakness in the centralized regime, the dystopian cityscape evolved from being merely a quotidian grievance to the backdrop for revolution. If, by their actions, officials were demonstrating that the regime was irrelevant, and if, in their own experiences, locals only attained basic repairs outside official channels, why should anyone have mourned the system when it was overthrown?