GDR Goes Global

Ulf Schmidt is Senior Professor of Modern History at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is the author of Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments (2015), Karl Brandt - The Nazi Doctor (Bloomsbury, 2007) and Justice at Nuremberg (2004).James Farley is Senior Research Fellow and at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is the ‘Taming the European Leviathan’ Project Manager.Will Studdert is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is the author of The Jazz War: Radio, Nazism and the Struggle for the Airwaves in World War II (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).

• Foreword Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF Potsdam, Germany)Editors’ IntroductionPart I: Projecting the GDR1. The Cold War from Below: Honecker’s 1980 Visit to Austria in Local Media Falko Schnicke (Johannes Kepler University, Austria)2. ‘Gästelehrgänge’: The Training of Foreign Security Forces by the German People's Police (DVP) in the GDR Yves Müller (State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)3. ‘Weg zum Nachbarn’: The GDR in Oberhausen Owen Evans (Edge Hill University, UK)4. ‘A law is always the political expression of the will of state power’: The Legal Form of the Law as a Means of International Recognition Bianka Trötschel-Daniels (University of Erfurt, Germany)Part II: Labour, Trade, and Economic Relations5. A Puzzling Paradise: Cuban Contract Workers Remember Racism and Exploitation in the GDR Ulrich Mücke and Miene Waziri (both University of Hamburg, Germany)6. Between State Guidelines and Individual Life Plans: Mozambican Labour Migrants in the late GDR Tom Drechsel (Friedrich Schiller University, Germany)7. A Foothold in Africa: GDR-Ghanaian Relations, 1957-1966 Ulf Schmidt and Will Studdert (both University of Hamburg, Germany)PART III: Medicine, Science, and Health8. Fit (be)for(e) Reunification: Sportive Self-Care in the GDR Magazine Deine Gesundheit (1980-1993) Lukas Bartl (University of Erfurt, Germany)9. The Transnational Networking of GDR Scientists Beatrix Hoffmann-Ihde (University of Bonn, Germany)10. The GDR’s Polio Centres: A Synthesis of Eastern and Western Influence Peter Banks (University of Hamburg, Germany)PART IV: Visual Media and Aesthetics11. International Exhibitions, Socialist Style: The Case of Danish Artists at Exhibitions in the GDR, 1951-1989 Kristian Handberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)12. Capturing the Everyday: The Transnational Aesthetics of Social Documentary Photography in the GDR Katja Schmidt-Mai (University of Hamburg, Germany)13. Queer GDR Literature and Culture in the GDR’s Cultural and Information Centres and Partner Institutions Franziska Haug (University of Regensburg, Germany)PART V: Philosophy, Politics, and Culture14. On the Spectres of Marx and the Unacknowledged Heritages of our Times Zvonimir Glavaš (University of Zagreb, Croatia)15. Women for Peace: GDR Activists in a Transnational Feminist Movement Kate Docking and Will Studdert (both University of Hamburg, Germany)16. Power from the Eastside: The Socialist Rock and Pop Alternative Michael Rauhut (University of Kristiansand, Norway)17. The Diasporic Aesthetic of the Greek Political Refugees in the GDR Mary Ikoniadou (Leeds Beckett University, UK)Index