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Behind the Wall
My Brother, My Family and Hatred in East Germany
Buch von Ines Geipel
Sprache: Englisch

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"Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions. Why have those parts of Germany that used to be part of the old GDR turned out to be so supportive of extremist groups and parties and such fertile ground for violence and hatred? To try to find answers to this question, Ines Geipel, the former East German Olympic athlete, returns to her past in order explore the matrix of fear and anxiety that shaped the lives of people in the GDR. Spurred on by conversations at the bedside of her brother as he lay dying of a brain tumour, she probes into her own family background and discovers a web of secrets and denial that reflected larger processes of East German society. She finds that her father had worked as a special agent for the Stasi until the service had no further use for him, and her grandfather had joined the Nazi party in 1933 and was stationed in Riga at a time when tens of thousands of Jews were murdered in the nearby forests. Silence and denial within her family was mirrored in the collective loss of history outside her home, and the repression of ideological non-conformity made it difficult for a traumatized population to grapple with and come to terms with a brutal past. Instead, a politics of forgetting emerged which served the ends of an authoritarian state and seeped into private lives of individuals with deep and lasting consequences. This powerful memoir, grippingly told, will appeal to anyone interested in the history of modern Germany, in the rise of far-right extremism and xenophobia and in the historical forces that shape the present"--
"Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions. Why have those parts of Germany that used to be part of the old GDR turned out to be so supportive of extremist groups and parties and such fertile ground for violence and hatred? To try to find answers to this question, Ines Geipel, the former East German Olympic athlete, returns to her past in order explore the matrix of fear and anxiety that shaped the lives of people in the GDR. Spurred on by conversations at the bedside of her brother as he lay dying of a brain tumour, she probes into her own family background and discovers a web of secrets and denial that reflected larger processes of East German society. She finds that her father had worked as a special agent for the Stasi until the service had no further use for him, and her grandfather had joined the Nazi party in 1933 and was stationed in Riga at a time when tens of thousands of Jews were murdered in the nearby forests. Silence and denial within her family was mirrored in the collective loss of history outside her home, and the repression of ideological non-conformity made it difficult for a traumatized population to grapple with and come to terms with a brutal past. Instead, a politics of forgetting emerged which served the ends of an authoritarian state and seeped into private lives of individuals with deep and lasting consequences. This powerful memoir, grippingly told, will appeal to anyone interested in the history of modern Germany, in the rise of far-right extremism and xenophobia and in the historical forces that shape the present"--
Über den Autor
Ines Geipel is a writer and Professor of Verse Arts at Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements

Slow motion
Tiny admiral
Our forefathers and their duty
In a vacuum
A growing void
Versions of a father
Dolls are easy targets
Country within a country
Gaps in time
Historical instinct
Exhalations
World of taboos
Skins of consciousness
Unification Nirvana
The East as a testing ground

Bibliography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Originaltitel: Umkämpfte Zone:Mein Bruder,der Osten und der Hass
Inhalt: 200 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509559978
ISBN-10: 1509559973
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1A509559970
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Geipel, Ines
Übersetzung: Somers, Nick
Hersteller: Wiley John + Sons
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, amartine@wiley-vch.de
Maße: 219 x 141 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Ines Geipel
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,366 kg
Artikel-ID: 128332213
Über den Autor
Ines Geipel is a writer and Professor of Verse Arts at Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements

Slow motion
Tiny admiral
Our forefathers and their duty
In a vacuum
A growing void
Versions of a father
Dolls are easy targets
Country within a country
Gaps in time
Historical instinct
Exhalations
World of taboos
Skins of consciousness
Unification Nirvana
The East as a testing ground

Bibliography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Originaltitel: Umkämpfte Zone:Mein Bruder,der Osten und der Hass
Inhalt: 200 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509559978
ISBN-10: 1509559973
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1A509559970
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Geipel, Ines
Übersetzung: Somers, Nick
Hersteller: Wiley John + Sons
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, amartine@wiley-vch.de
Maße: 219 x 141 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Ines Geipel
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,366 kg
Artikel-ID: 128332213
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