Amnesiopolis modernity space and memory in East Germany 1st Edition by Eli Rubin ISBN 9780198732266 0198732260

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ISBN 10:   0198732260

ISBN 13: 9780198732266

Author: Eli Rubin

 Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s and touted by the regime as the future of socialism. It focuses particularly on the experience of East Germans who moved, often from crumbling slums left over as a legacy of the nineteenth century, into this radically new place — one defined by pure functionality and rationality — a material manifestation of the utopian promise of socialism.
Eli Rubin employs methodologies from critical geography, urban history, architectural history, environmental history, and everyday life history to ask whether their experience was a radical break with their personal pasts and the German past. Amnesiopolis asks: can a dramatic change in spatial and material surroundings sever the links of memory that tie people to their old life narratives, and if so, does that help build a new socialist mentality in the minds of historical subjects? The answer is yes and no — as much as the East German state tried to create a completely new socialist settlement, divorced of any links to the pre-socialist past, the massive construction project uncovered the truth buried — literally — in the ground, which was that the urge to colonize the outskirts of Berlin was not new at all. Furthermore, the construction of a new city out of nothing, using repeating, identical buildings, created a panopticon-like effect, giving the Stasi the possibility of more complete surveillance than they previously had.

Table of contents:

 Introduction 
1. From the Slums to the Tabula Rasa: Germany’s Working Class, the Housing Program, and the Marzahn Plan 
2. Moonscape on the Mark: Socialism, Modernity, and the Construction of a New World 
3. Rainbows and Communism: Material, Sensory, and Mnemonic Ruptures 
4. Growing with Marzahn: Childhood, Community, and the Space of Socialism’s Future 
5. Plattenbau Panopticon: The Stasi, Durchherrschung, and the New Housing Settlements 
Conclusion

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