Bloom and Bust

Gwyneth Cliver is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She completed her PhD in 2008 from Washington University in St Louis and has also taught at Guilford College in North Carolina and Ball State University. Her research includes the integration of mathematics and mathematical philosophy in the writings of Robert Musil and Hermann Broch.

“The volume provides its audience with enormously helpful insights in the question of how the transformation processes after the Wende affect different layers of the city and how these transformations can be interpreted from a variety of academic fields.” · Urban Studies Journal“The essays in this collection resolutely de-center Berlin as a privileged subject of cultural studies, reconstructing the social histories, architectural rebuilding efforts, and other issues marking the transition from the former GDR to postunification in Dresden, Erfurt, Hoyerswerda, Frankfurt (Oder), and elsewhere… Fascinating and insightful.” · Rolf J. Goebel, from the Afterword“I think the premise of the collection is a promising one, to shift focus from the Berlin-centric approaches to the relationship between the past and urban space, towards the areas of Eastern Germany that are frequently overlooked… the book forms a useful complement to other studies of the cityscape in the post-unification period.” · Simon Ward, University of Aberdeen

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-PreiPART I: GROUNDWORKChapter 1. Preserving the Past Before and After the Wende: A Case Study of QuedlinburgHeike AlbertsChapter 2. No Man’s Land: Fiction and Reality in Buddy Giovinazzo’s Potsdamer PlatzChristopher JonesPART II: PROJECTIONSChapter 3. Cinematic Reflections of Germany’s Postunification Woes: Architecture and Urban Space of Frankfurt (Oder) in Halbe Treppe, Lichter, and Kombat SechzehnSebastian HeiduschkeChapter 4. Reclaiming the Thuringian Tuscany: The Touristic Appeal of Bad Sulza and its Toskana ThermeErika NelsonChapter 5. Berlin through the Lens: Space and (National) Identity in the Postunification CapitalSusanna Miller, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Tamara Nadolny, Heidi Manicke, Flavia Zaka, Trevor Blakeney, and Jude HirmanChapter 6. The Amputated City: The Voids of HoyerswerdaGwyneth CliverPART III: THEORIESChapter 7. Sounding out Erfurt: Does the Song Remain the Same?Heiner StahlChapter 8. Restoration and Redemption: Defending Kultur and Heimat in Eisenach’s CityscapeJason JamesChapter 9. The Bauwerk in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility: Historical Reconstruction, Pious Modernism, and Dresden’s “süße Krankheit”Rob McFarland with Elizabeth GuthrieAfterwordRolf J. GoebelNotes on ContributorsIndex