Mark Fenemore
Biographic Data
| ID | 2488457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Fenemore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Fenemore |
| SIGNATURE | FENEMORE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9872-3757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Communism's Public Sphere
Beyond the Wall
Journal Article Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990 Get access Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990. By Katja Hoyer.London: Allen Lane. 2023. xvi + 476pp.£25.00(hardback). Mark Fenemore Mark Fenemore Manchester Metropolitan University, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 42, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 145–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad076 Publis…
Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition and Resistance in Germany, 1933–1990
Journal Article Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition and Resistance in Germany, 1933–1990: The Freedom to Conform, by Sabrina P. Ramet Get access Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition and Resistance in Germany, 1933–1990: The Freedom to Conform, by Sabrina P. Ramet(Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020; pp. xxiii + 279. £66.64). Mark Fenemore Mark Fenemore Manchester Metropolitan University, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: O…
Comrades in Arms
‘Do “spornosexuals” really merit a whole, new hideous-sounding term?’ asks Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post. The answer, according to Tom Smith, is most definitely yes. The 2014 journalistic amalgam of sport + porn + metrosexual helps to frame his book’s argument. Smith zealously anchors his study in the present, tying it to our culture’s peculiar preoccupations, even if this means adopting jargon like ‘body-reflexive practices’ or dropping…
German Division as Shared Experience
The history of German division is generally treated as separate from the history of everyday life. Historians of the GDR have excelled in the latter, influencing, to some extent, the perspectives of historians of West Germany. We are beginning to see clever and well-founded comparisons of East and West German societies. While most studies of German division focus on the border separating East from West, especially as manifested by the Berlin Wall…
Fighting the Cold War in Post-Blockade, Pre-Wall Berlin
Enclaves and exclaves
Victim of kidnapping or an unfortunate defector? The strange case of Otto John
Dr Otto John was a controversial choice as head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, West Germany’s domestic counter-espionage agency. After attending a commemoration of the victims of the resistance plot against Hitler, on 20 July 1954, John disappeared from West Berlin in the company of his friend Dr Wolfgang Wohlgemuth. This article explores available evidence from Central Intelligence Agency and Stasi files to assess whether …
What Remains
Where is the boundary between ‘history’, as pursued by historians and museologists, and ‘lived experience’ (memories, insights and lifestyles), as undergone by people in everyday life? How do material objects and locations connect these two visions? If historians, teachers and museum exhibits create one set of meanings, how do these relate to the more ambiguous and ambivalent clump of memories possessed by different historical actors? For those l…
Bündische Jugend
Would-be totalitarian regimes place a great deal of emphasis on cultivating, shaping and forming youth. Although repeated by a number of figures in history, the phrase ‘He who has the youth has the future’ is closely associated with Joseph Goebbels. The two very different books under review focus on attempts to manipulate and mould youth according to nationalist/fascist precepts. As reflected in the historiography of Weimar Germany, the Bündische…
Politische Jugend im Umbruch von 1988/89
Richard Millington. State, Society and Memories of the Uprising of 17 June 1953 in the GDR
Heather L. Gumbert. Envisioning Socialism
The pioneers of television in East Germany (GDR) worked out the possibilities and limitations of the medium as they went along. They were an eclectic bunch, some influenced by Bertholt Brecht's theater. Much of what became standard as the language of television had to be worked out by trial and error. Initially they only broadcast for a few hours a day to a population largely without receivers. The very small screens of the early television sets …
Vorwarts zum neuen Menschen? Die sozialistische Erziehung in der DDR (1949-1989)
Non-German approaches to East German history can usually be divided into British, American or ‘other’. One international perspective we do not hear enough of is that of French researchers. Unlike Britain and America, twentieth-century France had a relatively strong and influential Communist Party, which possessed important regional strongholds. During World War II French Communists played a crucial role in the resistance to German occupation. Tho…
After The History of Sexuality
Journal Article After The History of Sexuality: German Genealogies With and Beyond Foucault Get access After The History of Sexuality: German Genealogies With and Beyond Foucault. Edited by Scott Spector, Helmut Puff, Dagmar Herzog. New York: Berghahn Books. 2012. vii + 310 pp. £57.00 (hardback). Mark Fenemore Mark Fenemore Manchester Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, …
Within Walls
Distorting Mirror for Society or Mosaic Stones of a Fragmented Self
Journal Article Distorting Mirror for Society or Mosaic Stones of a Fragmented Self: The Writings of Franz Göll Get access The Turbulent World of Franz Göll: An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century. By Peter Fritzsche. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 2011. 260 + xi. £15.96 (hardcover). Mark Fenemore Mark Fenemore Manchester Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Hester Vaizey, Surviving Hitler’s War
Jennifer V. Evans. Life among the Ruins
Death in Berlin
Explaining to innocent bystanders at parties what motivated a PhD project can be awkward. Even more so if the topic is death. Monica Black seems to be well aware that her work could be interpreted as stemming from ‘morbid fascination’. Some might find it depressing or even ghoulish (p. 1). She begins by outlining her grandparents’ very different fascinations with death. One side of the family crashed mortuary viewings for amusement. The other jok…
Sozialistische Stadte zwischen Herrschaft und Selbstbehauptung. Kommunalpolitik, Stadtplanung und Alltag in der DDR
The fruit of a well-conceived collaborative project led by Adelheid von Saldern, this edited volume explores industrial towns and cities in the GDR. Comparison with Eastern and Western European developments is integrated into the project from the beginning. Chapters by Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast, Lukasz Stanek and Ivan Nevzgodin explore developments in Poland and Siberia. The focus is on the relationship between inhabitants (men and women, young and…
Synthetic Socialism
Cheap, nasty, disposable, non-biodegradable and naff are all words which come to mind when we (in the West) think of plastic. But, Eli Rubin argues, plastic in East Germany eventually came to be seen as high-quality, durable and modern thanks to a confluence of factors, not least the rise to prominence and control of Bauhaus-influenced, formalist designers. Rubin identifies four major turning-points in the ‘material history of the GDR’. In 1950 t…
The Recent Historiography of Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Germany
This article sets out to explore the extent and to test the limits of the history of sexuality in twentieth-century Germany. It examines the ways in which sexuality can be explored from above and below. Drawing on medical-legal definitions of sexuality, feminist debates about sexuality, the science of sexology, and advice literature, the article sets out the state of debate together with ways that it might develop in the future. Arguing in favour…
The Recent Historiography of Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Germany
This article sets out to explore the extent and to test the limits of the history of sexuality in twentieth-century Germany. It examines the ways in which sexuality can be explored from above and below. Drawing on medical-legal definitions of sexuality, feminist debates about sexuality, the science of sexology, and advice literature, the article sets out the state of debate together with ways that it might develop in the future. Arguing in favour…
Hester Vaizey, Surviving Hitler’s War
The Recent Historiography of Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Germany
This article sets out to explore the extent and to test the limits of the history of sexuality in twentieth-century Germany. It examines the ways in which sexuality can be explored from above and below. Drawing on medical-legal definitions of sexuality, feminist debates about sexuality, the science of sexology, and advice literature, the article sets out the state of debate together with ways that it might develop in the future. Arguing in favour…
Synthetic Socialism
Cheap, nasty, disposable, non-biodegradable and naff are all words which come to mind when we (in the West) think of plastic. But, Eli Rubin argues, plastic in East Germany eventually came to be seen as high-quality, durable and modern thanks to a confluence of factors, not least the rise to prominence and control of Bauhaus-influenced, formalist designers. Rubin identifies four major turning-points in the ‘material history of the GDR’. In 1950 t…
Death in Berlin
Explaining to innocent bystanders at parties what motivated a PhD project can be awkward. Even more so if the topic is death. Monica Black seems to be well aware that her work could be interpreted as stemming from ‘morbid fascination’. Some might find it depressing or even ghoulish (p. 1). She begins by outlining her grandparents’ very different fascinations with death. One side of the family crashed mortuary viewings for amusement. The other jok…
Sozialistische Stadte zwischen Herrschaft und Selbstbehauptung. Kommunalpolitik, Stadtplanung und Alltag in der DDR
The fruit of a well-conceived collaborative project led by Adelheid von Saldern, this edited volume explores industrial towns and cities in the GDR. Comparison with Eastern and Western European developments is integrated into the project from the beginning. Chapters by Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast, Lukasz Stanek and Ivan Nevzgodin explore developments in Poland and Siberia. The focus is on the relationship between inhabitants (men and women, young and…
Within Walls
Distorting Mirror for Society or Mosaic Stones of a Fragmented Self
Journal Article Distorting Mirror for Society or Mosaic Stones of a Fragmented Self: The Writings of Franz Göll Get access The Turbulent World of Franz Göll: An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century. By Peter Fritzsche. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 2011. 260 + xi. £15.96 (hardcover). Mark Fenemore Mark Fenemore Manchester Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Hester Vaizey, Surviving Hitler’s War
Jennifer V. Evans. Life among the Ruins
After The History of Sexuality
Journal Article After The History of Sexuality: German Genealogies With and Beyond Foucault Get access After The History of Sexuality: German Genealogies With and Beyond Foucault. Edited by Scott Spector, Helmut Puff, Dagmar Herzog. New York: Berghahn Books. 2012. vii + 310 pp. £57.00 (hardback). Mark Fenemore Mark Fenemore Manchester Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, …
Vorwarts zum neuen Menschen? Die sozialistische Erziehung in der DDR (1949-1989)
Non-German approaches to East German history can usually be divided into British, American or ‘other’. One international perspective we do not hear enough of is that of French researchers. Unlike Britain and America, twentieth-century France had a relatively strong and influential Communist Party, which possessed important regional strongholds. During World War II French Communists played a crucial role in the resistance to German occupation. Tho…
Heather L. Gumbert. Envisioning Socialism
The pioneers of television in East Germany (GDR) worked out the possibilities and limitations of the medium as they went along. They were an eclectic bunch, some influenced by Bertholt Brecht's theater. Much of what became standard as the language of television had to be worked out by trial and error. Initially they only broadcast for a few hours a day to a population largely without receivers. The very small screens of the early television sets …
Politische Jugend im Umbruch von 1988/89
Richard Millington. State, Society and Memories of the Uprising of 17 June 1953 in the GDR
Bündische Jugend
Would-be totalitarian regimes place a great deal of emphasis on cultivating, shaping and forming youth. Although repeated by a number of figures in history, the phrase ‘He who has the youth has the future’ is closely associated with Joseph Goebbels. The two very different books under review focus on attempts to manipulate and mould youth according to nationalist/fascist precepts. As reflected in the historiography of Weimar Germany, the Bündische…
What Remains
Where is the boundary between ‘history’, as pursued by historians and museologists, and ‘lived experience’ (memories, insights and lifestyles), as undergone by people in everyday life? How do material objects and locations connect these two visions? If historians, teachers and museum exhibits create one set of meanings, how do these relate to the more ambiguous and ambivalent clump of memories possessed by different historical actors? For those l…
Fighting the Cold War in Post-Blockade, Pre-Wall Berlin
Enclaves and exclaves
Victim of kidnapping or an unfortunate defector? The strange case of Otto John
Dr Otto John was a controversial choice as head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, West Germany’s domestic counter-espionage agency. After attending a commemoration of the victims of the resistance plot against Hitler, on 20 July 1954, John disappeared from West Berlin in the company of his friend Dr Wolfgang Wohlgemuth. This article explores available evidence from Central Intelligence Agency and Stasi files to assess whether …
German Division as Shared Experience
The history of German division is generally treated as separate from the history of everyday life. Historians of the GDR have excelled in the latter, influencing, to some extent, the perspectives of historians of West Germany. We are beginning to see clever and well-founded comparisons of East and West German societies. While most studies of German division focus on the border separating East from West, especially as manifested by the Berlin Wall…
Comrades in Arms
‘Do “spornosexuals” really merit a whole, new hideous-sounding term?’ asks Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post. The answer, according to Tom Smith, is most definitely yes. The 2014 journalistic amalgam of sport + porn + metrosexual helps to frame his book’s argument. Smith zealously anchors his study in the present, tying it to our culture’s peculiar preoccupations, even if this means adopting jargon like ‘body-reflexive practices’ or dropping…
Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition and Resistance in Germany, 1933–1990
Journal Article Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition and Resistance in Germany, 1933–1990: The Freedom to Conform, by Sabrina P. Ramet Get access Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition and Resistance in Germany, 1933–1990: The Freedom to Conform, by Sabrina P. Ramet(Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020; pp. xxiii + 279. £66.64). Mark Fenemore Mark Fenemore Manchester Metropolitan University, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: O…
Beyond the Wall
Journal Article Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990 Get access Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990. By Katja Hoyer.London: Allen Lane. 2023. xvi + 476pp.£25.00(hardback). Mark Fenemore Mark Fenemore Manchester Metropolitan University, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 42, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 145–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad076 Publis…
Communism's Public Sphere
European history and politics (19 works) · History (19 works) · Political science (19 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (11 works) · German History and Society (10 works) · German (9 works) · Art (8 works)