Die Gegenwärtigkeit des Picaros am Beispiel von Thomas Brussigs Wie es leuchtet by Miriam Llamas Ubieto

“…This study will first investigate aspects of the picaresque that maintain their appeal in the contemporary world and modifications which seek to modernize it; and secondly, the personal liminality of the rogue himself, a border figure, caught in an in-between space (East and West) and at a time of transition (the GDR [German Democratic Republic] and the German reunification following the fall of the Wall) in a world of change. …”
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Divided Memory: Dealing with the Past in the East German Town of Eisenhüttenstadt after the Upheaval of 1989–90 by Stanislav Serhiienko

“…This paper explores perceptions of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Eisenhüttenstadt, the “first socialist town of Germany,” following the collapse of the state socialist dictatorship in East Germany. …”
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A Politics of Working-Class Culture and the Culture of Working-Class Politics: The Aesthetics and Activism of Amber Film and Photography Collective and the Berwick Street Film Coll... by Jessica Williams Boyall

“…By engaging in a comparative reading, I highlight the breadth of Amber’s oeuvre, tracing the development of their filmmaking strategies—which included agitprop, the fusion of factual and fictional formal elements and transnational collaboration with the German Democratic Republic’s film production company, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA)—to demonstrate that, contrary to criticisms levelled by contemporary theorists clustered around Screen magazine and the British Film Institute, Amber transcended the constraints of Documentary Realism by incorporating radical avant-garde aesthetics into their oppositional practice. …”
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The Problem of the GDR’s Foreign Policy Identity in the Context of Initiatives in Africa in the 1960s - 1980s by Natalia V. Ivkina

“…The article is devoted to an examination of the German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) foreign policy identity in the context of its policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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