Asking Americans to play a word association game with “Germany” usually results in Nazis or the Holocaust being a first answer; the Berlin Wall is often second. Though not as prolific in international memory as World War II, the impact of Germany’s division into a Western capitalist country and an Eastern socialist state is difficult to overemphasize. The twenty-eight year separation was a defining moment in German culture. From 1961 to 1989, the wall interrupted lives, running through cities, between buildings, and across families. With such a dramatic political and personal impact, it’s no surprise that the time period has been both reflected and explored in popular culture. But interestingly, three comics have been published in the last ...
The Return of the RAF: German Tales of Terror investigates representations of politically motivated ...
This article deals with the iconology of the Berlin Wall from its construction, in August 1961, to i...
The post 1990 reception of East German public art reveals a need for an official projection of publi...
1989: The German Democratic Republic (GDR) still existed and the Berlin Wall was still standing. Com...
The aim of this text is to illustrate the power of propaganda within comics. Many comic-book series ...
This discourse analysis examines a collection of short stories, entitled Schattensprünge: Geschichte...
Three decades after the reunification of Germany, the History of a nation standing on the cutting li...
© 2014 Dr. Benjamin John GookThis is a study of social change and memory, of ideology and history, o...
The art on the Berlin Wall has been looked at often for its social and political meaning. Instead, ...
Many German and American researchers have studied the truly long-lasting effects of World War II on ...
Comics and graphic novels provide a singular way to explore and portray historical events and narrat...
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in History Today. Included with kind permis...
The article analyses entanglements of political and generational experience in the German Democratic...
This chapter examines several pivotal exhibitions of GDR art that took place within Germany around ...
By the East German authorities’ account, the “Anti-Fascist Wall of Protection,” or Berlin Wall, was ...
The Return of the RAF: German Tales of Terror investigates representations of politically motivated ...
This article deals with the iconology of the Berlin Wall from its construction, in August 1961, to i...
The post 1990 reception of East German public art reveals a need for an official projection of publi...
1989: The German Democratic Republic (GDR) still existed and the Berlin Wall was still standing. Com...
The aim of this text is to illustrate the power of propaganda within comics. Many comic-book series ...
This discourse analysis examines a collection of short stories, entitled Schattensprünge: Geschichte...
Three decades after the reunification of Germany, the History of a nation standing on the cutting li...
© 2014 Dr. Benjamin John GookThis is a study of social change and memory, of ideology and history, o...
The art on the Berlin Wall has been looked at often for its social and political meaning. Instead, ...
Many German and American researchers have studied the truly long-lasting effects of World War II on ...
Comics and graphic novels provide a singular way to explore and portray historical events and narrat...
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in History Today. Included with kind permis...
The article analyses entanglements of political and generational experience in the German Democratic...
This chapter examines several pivotal exhibitions of GDR art that took place within Germany around ...
By the East German authorities’ account, the “Anti-Fascist Wall of Protection,” or Berlin Wall, was ...
The Return of the RAF: German Tales of Terror investigates representations of politically motivated ...
This article deals with the iconology of the Berlin Wall from its construction, in August 1961, to i...
The post 1990 reception of East German public art reveals a need for an official projection of publi...