The Berlin Wall after the Berlin Wall
Site into sight
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905615 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Bach (0000-0002-8595-6268, New School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-62 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698015613972 |
| OpenAlex | W2400014196 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 19 |
How did the Berlin Wall disappear as a border and re-appear as a site of memory? This article examines how the material space of the Wall was erased and reintroduced as worthy of commemoration. It shows how the Wall was first taken “out of time” (de-temporalized) and then re-temporalized within narratives of trauma, consumption, and the political through three key sites of commemoration—the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse, Checkpoint Charlie, and the East Side Gallery. Independently and as part of the city’s official “concept” for memorializing the Wall, these sites connect the city as much to its search for new frontiers of possible futures as they do to its past. Examining them allows us to explore the role of temporality and materiality in the construction of collective memory
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Berlin wall · Collective memory · Epistemology · Fall of man · Futures contract · Literature · Materiality (auditing · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sight · Temporality · European history and politics · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit
Thirdspace
Hegel's Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit
The Re-Use of Urban Ruins
Unclaimed Experience
Discourses of the Vanishing
Memory Landscapes and the Labor of the Negative in Berlin
Urban identity policies in Berlin
A thousand plateaus
Defacement
Multidirectional Memory
This is Not a Boundary Object
Sacking Berlin
The Cultural Production of Locality
The Berlin Wall and its Resurrection as a Site of Memory
The Voids of Berlin
The Counter-Monument
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |