‘It has to go away, but at the same time it has to be kept’: the Berlin Wall and the making of an urban icon
Schlör, Joachim (2006) ‘It has to go away, but at the same time it has to be kept’: the Berlin Wall and the making of an urban icon. Urban History, 33, (1), 85-105. (doi:10.1017/S0963926806003531).
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Description/Abstract
For 28 years, from 13 August 1961 through 9 November 1989, the city of Berlin was divided by a wall. The borderline was the symbol for the Cold War and the political partition between East and West – but it was also an element of the urban structure: Berliners in the two parts of the city had to live with it and to define themselves in relation to it. After the fall of the wall and its destruction in the euphoric mood of re-unification, a huge inner-urban wasteland became the symbol for the need of a new politics of memory: the missing Berlin Wall became an urban icon.
What business do we have in Berlin? Memories.
Uwe Johnson
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0963-9268 (print) |
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DD Germany D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D839 Post-war History, 1945 on H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities > History |
| Item ID: | 47573 |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:10 |
| Contributors: | Schlör, Joachim (Author) |
| Date: | 9 August 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/47573 |
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