What Remains
Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11480958 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Fenemore (0000-0001-9872-3757, Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 679-681 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-089X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/gerhis/ghy082 |
| OpenAlex | W2891214738 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
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 lucky enough to have been born in non-dictatorships, we can easily reminisce about the oddities of our childhoods without feeling overly guilty or complicit. For those fascinated by the GDR, we are pulled between documentation of the damage caused by the regime and friendlier and more sympathetic memories of a, in parts, sympathetic lost culture. The exhibits of a museum can tell one story, but the gift shop tells another. Like Schrödinger’s Cat, the GDR is both simultaneously bad and good, dead and alive. ‘One person’s souvenir kitsch’ is another’s ‘cherished memory’ (p. 5).
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Art history · Dictatorship · Documentation · Epistemology · Everyday life · Feeling · Kitsch · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Vision · Visual arts · Anthropology · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |