Ghosts Of East Berlin
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Ghosts Of East Berlin
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Author : Eric Friedman
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-11-11
Ghosts Of East Berlin written by Eric Friedman and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with categories.
November 9, 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Santa Barbara, California residents, Celeste McConnell Barber and her son, Eric Friedman, recollect that time in their joint memoir: Ghosts of East Berlin. It was January, 1988 when they departed for six months to live in East Berlin, the city at the center of Cold War politics - among the first Americans to be invited to the Eastern Bloc under Gorbachev's glasnost (openness) policy. The late Frank McConnell, Professor of English at U.C. Santa Barbara, had been awarded a Fulbright grant by the International Exchange of Scholars to teach at Humboldt University. The Fulbright was part of a global effort to enhance cultural exchange and communications between the West and Eastern Bloc nations. "Just six months after President Reagan issued his challenge - 'Tear down this wall!' -- and suddenly we were traveling in a subway through No Man's Land. Most remarkable, our family of three became goodwill ambassadors for our country," said McConnell Barber. "I was only 10 years old," added Friedman. "My world instantly expanded from a local to a global perspective. It was a lot to grasp at the time, but the friendships I forged and the foreign view of my home country changed me on a fundamental level. Twenty-five years later and I am still discovering how those six months impacted me as a child and adult, in my understanding of the responsibility of being an American citizen, and the significance that I am a descendant of European Jews." The memoir highlights the challenge of everyday life under Socialism, as the family grappled with both the American Embassy and German Stasi and the joys of simply engaging with East Berliners on the most human level, walls be damned!
The Ghosts Of Berlin
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Author : Brian Ladd
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-05-01
The Ghosts Of Berlin written by Brian Ladd and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with History categories.
“Written in a clear and elegant style, The Ghosts of Berlin is . . . a superb guide to this process of urban self-definition, both past and present.” —The Wall Street Journal In the twenty years since its original publication, The Ghosts of Berlin has become a classic, an unparalleled guide to understanding the presence of history in our built environment, especially in a space as historically contested—and emotionally fraught—as Berlin. Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin. Returning to the city frequently, Ladd continues to survey the urban landscape, traversing its ruins, contemplating its buildings and memorials, and carefully deconstructing the public debates and political controversies emerging from its past. “With erudition, insight, and restraint, Brian Ladd carries off the dangerous task of analyzing architecture and urbanism in Berlin in terms of its horrific political past. He convincingly argues that architecture embodies ideological meaning more powerfully than other artifacts of a society.” —The New York Times Book Review “Ladd examines the conflicts radiating from [Berlin’s] remarkable fusion of architecture, history and national identity.” —History Today “His history of Berlin’s architectural successes and failures reads entertainingly like a detective novel.” —The New Republic “Ladd’s balanced, sensitive chronicle of the Berlin’s traumatized topography brings the past into focus.” —Harvard Design Magazine
The Haunted Land
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Author : Tina Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-11-24
The Haunted Land written by Tina Rosenberg and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-24 with History categories.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
The Ghosts Of Berlin Images Of A Divided City
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Author : Ian J. Sanders
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2006-03-01
The Ghosts Of Berlin Images Of A Divided City written by Ian J. Sanders and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-01 with History categories.
Berlin was at the centre of two world wars and was until 1989 the potential flashpoint for a third. Throughout the city are reminders of it's violent and turbulent past. This large format photo book shows the key locations in its history, as well as some lesser known ones. The book should be of interest to anyone interested in recent European history, as well as tourists to the city, who want to see how Berlin has changed over the years and find locations not in the usual guide books. Visit Berlinphotos.co.uk for more information.
Ghosts Like Us
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Author : Inez Baranay
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-11
Ghosts Like Us written by Inez Baranay and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11 with Fiction categories.
3 eras, 3 women: linked by Berlin, performance art, and a poem In the 1890s young poet Erika Kieler attends the most progressive artistic salon in Berlin to perform her poem inspired by a visitor from the capital of the Ottoman Empire. In 1989, just before the Wall comes down, punk artist Trudi Zahn performs her own version of the same poem in an East Berlin club. And in 2009 Lottie Hoffmann prepares to perform Trudi's work at a cabaret for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The story explores the drive for women's authentic creativity and personal freedom, cross-cultural exchange, interpretations of history, artistic influence, and a universe in which ghosts appear.
Ghost Dance In Berlin
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Author : Peter Wortsman
language : en
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Release Date : 2013-02-26
Ghost Dance In Berlin written by Peter Wortsman and has been published by Travelers' Tales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-26 with Travel categories.
Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in flux than in Berlin, that sprawling metropolis located on the fault line of history. A short-lived fever-dream of modernity in the Roaring Twenties, redubbed Germania and primped up into the megalomaniac fantasy of a Thousand-Year Reichstadt in the Thirties, reduced in 1945 to a divided rubble heap, subsequently revived in a schizoid state of post-World War II duality, and reunited in 1989 when the wall came tumbling down ? Berlin has since been reborn yet again as the hipster hub of the 21st century. This book is a hopscotch tour in time and space. Part memoir, part travelogue, Ghost Dance in Berlin is an unlikely declaration of love, as much to a place as to a state of mind, by the American-born son of German-speaking Jewish refugees. Peter Wortsman imagines the parallel celebratory haunting of two sets of ghosts, those of the exiled erstwhile owners, a Jewish banker and his family, and those of the Führer's Minister of Finance and his entourage, who took over title, while in another villa across the lake another gaggle of ghosts is busy planning the Final Solution.
The Berlin Shadow
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Author : Jonathan Lichtenstein
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-07-23
The Berlin Shadow written by Jonathan Lichtenstein and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A formally audacious and deeply moving memoir in three timeframes that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son. In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein’s father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child refugee on the Kindertransport. Almost every member of his family died after Kristallnacht, and, arriving in England to make his way in the world alone, Hans turned his back on his German Jewish culture. Growing up in post-war rural Wales where the conflict was never spoken of, Jonathan and his siblings were at a loss to understand their father’s relentless drive and sometimes eccentric behaviour. As Hans enters old age, he and Jonathan set out to retrace his journey back to Berlin. Published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary, this is a highly compelling account of a father and son’s attempt to emerge from the shadows of history. For readers who enjoyed East West Street, The Berlin Shadow is a beautiful memoir about time, trauma and family. Praise for Jonathan Lichtenstein's work: ‘The writing is keenly observed and emotionally resonant. . . an impressive achievement given the breadth of its reach, from Berlin in the 1930s to Bethlehem today’ New York Times on Memory
Ghosts Of Berlin
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Author : Rudolph Herzog
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Ghosts Of Berlin written by Rudolph Herzog and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Fiction categories.
Berlin's hip present comes up against the city's dark past in these seven supernatural tales by the son of the great filmmaker who "shares his father's curious and mordant wit" (The Financial Times). In these hair-raising stories from the celebrated filmmaker and author Rudolph Herzog, millennial Berliners discover that the city is still the home of many unsettled—and deeply unsettling—ghosts. And those ghosts are not very happy about the newcomers. Thus the coddled daughter of a rich tech executive finds herself slowly tormented by the poltergeist of a Weimer-era laborer, and a German intelligence officer confronts a troll wrecking havoc upon the city's unbuilt airport. An undead Nazi sympathizer romances a Greek emigre, while Turkish migrants curse the gentrifiers that have evicted them. Herzog's keen observational eye and acid wit turn modern city stories into deliciously dark satires that ride the knife-edge of suspenseful and terrifying.
The Haunted Land
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Author : Tina Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997-05-20
The Haunted Land written by Tina Rosenberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-20 with categories.
In four newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe, communism's former victims and jailers are struggling to make sense of their history - and sometimes rewrite it. In this groundbreaking, stylishly reported book, a journalist travels across the battlefields of memory and asks: Who is guilty? How should they be punished? And who is qualified to judge them in states where almost every citizen was an accomplice? In East Germany, Tina Rosenberg follows the trial of the border guards charged with the last shooting at the Berlin Wall. In the Czech Republic, she meets a heroic dissident who has now been ostracized for having once cooperated with the old regime. In Poland, she speaks with General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the one-time architect of martial law who now presents himself as his country's savior. Out of these stories of conscience and complicity, courage and optimism, The Haunted Land delivers the final chapter of the greatest moral drama of our time.
25 Years Berlin Republic
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Author : Todd Herzog
language : en
Publisher: Verlag Wilhelm Fink
Release Date : 2019-02-21
25 Years Berlin Republic written by Todd Herzog and has been published by Verlag Wilhelm Fink this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
25 Years Berlin Republic takes stock of the state of German unification a quarter of a century into the ongoing project that is the Berlin Republic. Thirteen scholars, artists, and public figures from diverse backgrounds document the changing hopes and fears, successes and challenges, that face the republic as it negotiates its way through the 21st century. Taking up a broad assessment of German culture ranging from sports to religion, painting to map-making, film to foreign policy, these studies combine personal experiences with critical analysis in order to understand the Berlin Republic today. The resulting portrait reveals a complex, diverse, and constantly-developing Republic that continues to ask the same essential question that has been at the center of discussions since the dramatic events that gave birth to the Republic: "Sind wir ein Volk?"