Verfasst von:	Swope, Curtis [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Building socialism
Titelzusatz:	architecture and urbanism in east german literature, 1955-1973
Verf.angabe:	Curtis Swope
Verlagsort:	New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
Verlag:	Bloomsbury Academic
Jahr:	2018
Umfang:	xii, 257 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	New directions in German studies ; vol. 19
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 237-248
ISBN:	978-1-5013-2811-4
	978-1-5013-5177-8
Abstract:	Building Socialism' reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period. It breaks new ground by exploring the centrality of architecture to a mid-century modernist literature in dialogue with multiple literary and left-wing theoretical traditions and in tune with international assessments of modernist architecture and urban planning. Design and construction were a central part of politics and everyday life in East Germany during this time as buildings old and new were asked to bear heavy ideological and social burdens. In their novels, stories, and plays, Heiner Müller, Christa Wolf, Günter Kunert, Volker Braun, Günter de Bruyn, and Brigitte Reimann responded to enormous new factory complexes, experimental new towns, the demolition of Berlin's tenements, and the propagation of a pared-down modernist aesthetic in interior design. Writers' representation of the design, construction, and use of architecture formed part of a turn to modernist literary devices, including montage, metaphor, and shifting narrative perspectives. East Germany's literary architecture also represents a sophisticated theoretical reflection on the intractable problems of East Germany's socialist modernity, including the alliance between state socialism and technological modernization, competing commitments to working-class self-organization and the power of specialist planners and designers, and the attempt to create an alternative to fascism
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://d-nb.info/1155616413/04
Schlagwörter:	(g)Deutschland <DDR>    / (s)Literatur    / (s)Architektur <Motiv>    / (s)Urbanität <Motiv>    / (s)Sozialismus <Motiv>    / (s)Städtebau <Motiv>    / (z)Geschichte 1955-1973
	(g)Deutschland <DDR>    / (s)Literatur    / (s)Architektur <Motiv>    / (s)Städtebau <Motiv>    / (z)Geschichte 1955-1973
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Swope, Curtis: Building Socialism. - New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2017. - 1 Online-Ressource (270 pages)
	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Swope, Curtis: Building socialism. - New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. - 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 260 p)
RVK-Notation:	GN 1522
K10plus-PPN:	882949845
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