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Unhappy End: Understanding Silence in Andreas Dresen’s Stilles Land
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 81–105.
Published: 01 February 2025
... of unspoken emotions and protests, preserving an essential part of what was the GDR. In its critique of GDR socialism, the film moreover aligns itself with the institutional function of theater in East Germany, which was to point to the regime’s shortcomings and evoke the horizon of its original political...
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Positive Heroes and Abject Bodies in Heiner Müller's Production Plays
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 15–47.
Published: 01 August 2006
... commercial
theater since the nineteenth century. Second, the specifi c conditions of the
GDR, in which theater functioned as an imperfectly critical public sphere in a
society otherwise dominated by state and quasi-state apparatuses, had among
others the effect of cultivating actorsʼ...
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Allegories and Ends: Heiner Müller's Hamletmaschine
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 77–100.
Published: 01 August 2006
... an aesthetic stance—how to perform theater “to hold a mir-
ror up to nature”—as well as more practical advice on what to perform. As
J. Lawrence Guntner notes, “Hamletʼs remarks on how to perform and what
to perform became the offi cial credo for Shakespeare reception in the GDR,
and the play within...
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The Postwar Restoration in East and West
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 69–90.
Published: 01 November 2015
... playwright in the early GDR was Bertolt Brecht, who was able, with
his wife, Helene Weigel, to found the Berliner Ensemble in 1949 and later (in
1954) to move it into the very same theater, the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm,
where his Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera) had premiered in 1928—
under...
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Germania 3: Gespenster am toten Mann: Heiner Müller and the Art of Posthumous Provocation
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 49–64.
Published: 01 August 2006
... Berliner
Ensemble production of Germania Tod in Berlin (the East German premiere
of that play, eleven years after its West German premiere). This scene even-
tually became the opening of the published text of Germania 3. It shows the
1930s communist martyr Ernst Thälmann and the GDR leader Walter...
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In Memoriam David Bathrick
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): iii–xiv.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to join the journal. David’s first major contribution to NGC was an article about Brecht in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It was published in the second issue of the journal, which was dedicated to the GDR and contained an extensive annotated bibliography of pertinent scholarship East and West...
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The Fall of the Wall as Nonevent in Works by Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Zafer Şenocak
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 47–62.
Published: 01 August 2012
... among West German anarchists and in East Berlin Brechtian
theater. Elsewhere I have written on the novel’s deterritorialization of German
memory, its evocation of the 1970s German Democratic Republic (GDR) find-
ing resonances in a much-extended space-time.30 Here I am specifically con-
cerned...
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The Concert Hall as Agonistic Public Space: The Gewandhaus in Leipzig
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 77–106.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Juliane Schicker This article deals with questions of the sociopolitical involvement of classical music performance spaces. During the last twenty years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Gewandhaus in Leipzig provided opportunities for its users to emancipate themselves from Socialist...
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“Only in the 1990s Did I Become East German”: A Conversation with Ingo Schulze about Remembering the GDR, Simple Storys , and 33 Moments of Happiness ; with an Introduction to His Work
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 143–155.
Published: 01 August 2007
...Dagmar Jaeger New German Critique, Inc. 2007 “Only in the 1990s Did I Become East German”:
A Conversation with Ingo Schulze about
Remembering the GDR, Simple Storys,
and 33 Moments of Happiness; with an
Introduction to His Work
Dagmar...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 1–14.
Published: 01 August 2006
...: it was conceived as a piece of history work, revisiting “Stories from Pro-
duction,” that Müller had worked up in his early texts about the German Demo-
cratic Republic (GDR) and that had become critically important to him again. It
was intended as a move against the repression of their East German history...
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Writing into the Void: Heiner Müller's Mommsen's Block as a State of Exception
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 167–184.
Published: 01 August 2013
...—for theater in the GDR. Müller also liked to argue that,
owing to the state’s clumsy and oppressive efforts to control information,
audiences in the GDR were more discerning than those in the West; people
in the East knew that they were being lied to regularly and had grown adept
at reading...
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“After the Massacre of Illusions”: Specters of the German Democratic Republic in the Work of Volker Braun
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 103–118.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Karen Leeder The German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded on the specter of communism; it now haunts contemporary capitalism as unrealized aspiration, trauma, or travesty. This article focuses on the representation of the after-life of the GDR in the work of Volker Braun. It examines...
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The Non- Heimat Heimat : Jewish Filmmakers and German Nationality from Weimar to the GDR
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 115–143.
Published: 01 November 2015
... between the appropriation of Heimat clichés in the works of Weimar and GDR Jewish filmmakers highlight the similarities of their ambitions and self-perceptions. In particular, it suggests that in different political frameworks, Jewish filmmakers used similar means to advocate an alternative notion...
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Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance in Fritz Lang and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 127–144.
Published: 01 February 2008
... and the profound loneliness of those who get involved with the con-
spiratorial sides of power. The story concerns a GDR celebrity couple, the
renowned Staatsschriftsteller and playwright Georg Dreyman (Sebastian
Koch) and his girlfriend, the Berlin theater star Christa-Maria Sieland (Mar-
tina Gedeck). Even...
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Stahlmann’s “Asian Eyes”: Jewish Identity in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance , Volume 3
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 187–214.
Published: 01 November 2022
... this problem through the fictive figure of Stahlmann. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by New German Critique, Inc. 2022 GDR Moscow show trials leftist antisemitism Khmer Rouge Red Army Faction One Sunday morning, while I was shaving in our bathroom, I saw my father. He...
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German Painting in the Cold War
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 209–227.
Published: 01 August 2010
... the 1970s as a result of treaties between
the GDR and the FRG. Especially after the songwriter Wolf Biermann’s forced
expatriation from the GDR in 1976 on a concert tour in West Germany, and the
renewed cultural repression in East Germany, a wave of artists, writers, and
theater directors and actors...
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Hermann Glöckner: Waste as a Figure of Thought?
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 169–203.
Published: 01 February 2017
....
Read in the context of the hegemonic socialist realist visual culture of the
German Democratic Republic (GDR), Glöckner’s miniature abstract creations
Sarah E. James 171
Figure 2. Hermann Glöckner, Five Matchboxes Staggered...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 11–24.
Published: 01 August 2012
.... It was regarded,
however, with greater ambivalence by the German Democratic Republic
(GDR), in whose territory it had actually resided until transferred to Berlin
only months before its final closure. Early attempts to revive its pedagogy fell
victim to social-realist orthodoxy, but many Bauhaus graduates...
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Between Athlos and Arbeit : Myth, Labor, and Cement
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 125–152.
Published: 01 August 2010
...” in the 1970s is the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
playwright Heiner Müller, one of the leading agents, as Huyssen suggests, in
this “confrontation of history and fiction, history and representation, history
and myth.”2 Indeed, Müller offered a succinct formula for this nostalgic uto-
pianism when he...
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Photography/Topography: Viewing Berlin, 1880/2000
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 25–45.
Published: 01 August 2012
... the city’s architectural future.11 The immediate occa-
sion of his article was the fierce debate about the future of the site of the former
Stadtschloss, a vast baroque Hohenzollern palace damaged by Allied bomb-
ing, demolished by German Democratic Republic (GDR) authorities in 1950,
and replaced...
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