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memory Copyright 2013 Molly R. Markin Pinkert, Anke Pinkert, Anke Wade, Mara R. Johnson, Laurie R. Yildiz, Yasemin Markin, Molly 2013-05-24T22:16:15Z 2013-05-24T22:16:15Z 2015-05-24T10:00:53Z 2013-05 2013-05-24T22:16:15Z 2013-05 When considering the blockage of a nuanced GDR memory within post-unification discourses, the historical moment of 1989 can be understood as a moment of loss for East Germans. While post-unification scholarship has addressed questions of GDR identity and generational memory in other post-1989 contexts, there is an absence of scholarly work that discusses loss across different Eastern German generations that share the same historical moment of collapse and loss - 1989. In this dissertation, I divide the various Eastern German generational engagements with loss and assertion after 1989 into four chapters. Each generation forms a different discursive constellation: melancholic mourning: (Christa Wolf - chapter one), ambivalence (Lutz Rathenow and Thomas Brussig - chapter two), reappropriation (Jana Hensel and Jakob Hein - chapter three), and nostalgia/anti-nostalgia (Andrea Hanna Hünniger and the GDR museum - chapter four). Age and social position at the time of rupture fostered different perspectives regarding the experience of loss. My examination uses a case study approach to investigate trends. Taking each author individually and analyzing the process of dealing with loss in their works to other generational approaches, new insights into post-GDR memory studies are provided. Although this study analyzes only Eastern German literary productions and museal constructions, it provides insights into the development of culture in unified, post-1989 Germany and into questions of where culturally mutable notions of East German identity fit into the processes by which a collective sense of German identity is shaped in the post-unification period. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-04-12T17:55:53Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Markin_Molly.pdf: 1888110 bytes, checksum: 9cd96207b633d776f8221dd26f35132c (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-24T22:16:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Molly_Markin.pdf: 1888110 bytes, checksum: 9cd96207b633d776f8221dd26f35132c (MD5) license.txt: 4062 bytes, checksum: 055a944da09b76d67ad5b949942d1574 (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Seth Robbins (srobbins@illinois.edu) on 2013-05-24T22:18:57Z Item is restricted until 2015-05-24T22:18:31Z Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:36:10-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: 2015-05-24 17:18:31 UTC Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 44415 on 2015-05-24T10:00:53Z. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/44442 en loss Reunified Germany Post-GDR memory--cultural discourses of loss and assertion in reunified Germany text Germanic Languages & Lit 1927 German 0303 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:German -UIUC 10KS0303PHD