Cold War Berlin: Confrontations, Cultures, and Identities

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No other European city can claim to have experienced such division and togetherness as Berlin. This volume of essays attempts to address the question of the peculiar character of divided Berlin during the years of the Cold War - and connects the history of this embattled city with the over-all East-West conflict. A wide range of transatlantic contributors addresses Berlin as a global focal point of the Cold War, and also assess the geopolitical peculiarity of the city and how citizens dealt with it in everyday life - exploring not just the implications of division, but also the continuing entanglements and mutual perceptions which resulted from Berlin’s unique status. Finally, the book then asks how these experiences were and are told: What identities did the division create, what narratives did it produce and how do they shape today's debates? Has the city managed to forge a common memory culture out of a divided past? An essential contribution to the study of Berlin in the 20th century, and the effects - global and local - of the Cold War on a city. Cover Contents List of Figures Introducing Cold War Berlin Part 1 Locating Berlin in the Cold War 1 From Heart of Darkness to Heap of Rubble: Berlin as Nazi Capital Christoph Kreutzmüller 2 Division of the Spoils: Berlin as Symbol and as Prize David E. Barclay 3 Policing the Border Area in East Berlin: Rules, Conflicts, and Negotiations, 1961–89 Gerhard Sälter 4 Kennedy, Khrushchev, King, and Springsteen: Staging Visits in a Divided City Andreas Etges Part 2 Disjointed and Resilient Local Entanglements in the Cold War 5 From Old War to Cold War: Berlin as Urban Planning Laboratory in the First Postwar Years Clara M. Oberle 6 Entangled Entertainment: Cinema and Television in Cold War Berlin Hanno Hochmuth 7 The Politics of Subculture in Both Berlins Timothy Scott Brown 8 Living in the Shadow of the Wall: Berlin’s Turkish Community, 1961–89 Sarah Thomsen Vierra 9 Experimental Art and Cultural Exchange in Late Cold War Berlin Briana Smith 10 Behind the Wall, Across the Wall: Gay Activism in East Berlin Teresa Tammer 11 Exhibiting Berlin: Local History in Berlin’s Museums Andreas Ludwig 12 Performing Berlin: The Rivaling 750th Anniversaries of 1987 Krijn Thijs Part 3 Berlin’s Memory Culture 13 Divided Memory in United Berlin Stefanie Eisenhuth 14 Border Fragments, Border Fantasies: Cold War Berlin in Retrospect Paul Steege Selected Bibliography Index