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Dresden: Paradoxes of Memory in History
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The collapse of the German Democratic Republic prompted the East Germans to confront their personal, cultural and international past. This study of the Wende - the turn of events in 1989 - is based on ethnographic and anthropological research conducted in the early 1990s. Liz Ten Dyke has developed a finely nuanced portrait of the city and its residents as they were caught up in the economic, political and social turmoil that characterized the immediate post-socialist period.
By weaving together scholarly research, oral history, and ethnographic excursions or narratives of salient experiences, this book makes an important contribution to the study of social aspects of the past. Moving beyond paradigms presently shaping the study of memory, it details the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in remembering, making manifest the link between such contradictions and larger symbolic and political-economic contexts. In this way, the author situates the study of memory in history and shows that it is the mutability of memory, in conjuction with the uncertainty of history, that render the past a dynamic and powerful force in human society.

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Dresden

Studies in Anthropology and History

Studies in Anthropology and History is a series which develops new theoretical perspectives, and combines comparative and ethnographic studies with historical research.
Associate editors: Nicholas Thomas, The Australian National University, Canberra and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, University of Wisconsin, USA.
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VOLUME 28	Dresden: Paradoxes of Memory in History ELIZABETH A. TEN DYKE

Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke

Dresden

Paradoxes of Memory in
History

First published 2001
by Routledge
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2001 Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

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ISBN: 0-415-27036-7

To my (extended) family

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I am most deeply indebted to the men and women who welcomed me into their homes in Dresden and spent countless hours answering my endless questions.

Gerald Sider, Jane Schneider and Glenn Peterson provided considerable encouragement and good cheer along with astute suggestions for the improvement of my research, scholarship and writing. I am very grateful for their contribution.

Mary Louise Boelcke provided me with an important contact to Wolfram Peetz who, in turn, passed on to me the names and addresses of many East Germans who became my first friends in the German Democratic Republic. I will never forget Hannelore and Christian Heinrichs hospitality, nor the white-knuckle rides we took across the rough roads of Thringen in their Trabant! Frank, Robert Lumer, Virginia Penrose, Barbara Stock, Heike Krmmel and Jonathan Forst all generously assisted me as I sought to find my way (literally and metaphorically!) around the former GDR.

During 19911992 the Grohmann family patiently tolerated my peculiar American ways during the time I resided with them. Maria-Teresa Blasco-Quilez, Thomas Kunze and Dr. Angela Hintz provided great friendship and regularly sought to improve my German. Herta and Gerhard Jtzschmann looked after me as if I were an adopted daughter; Frau Springsgut opened her home to me on numerous occasions, as did Pastor Kunze and members of his congregation. The Volkssolidaritt made me an honorary member. Dr. Alf Ldtke, Dr. Ula Nienhaus, Dr. Monica Quasdorf and Dr. Karin Sachmann provided invaluable professional guidance and support.

I have benefitted from the very generous financial support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program at the United States Department of Education; the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); the Graduate School, City University of New York; and the Department of Anthropology at the Graduate School. I am deeply grateful to the individuals affiliated with these institutions who supported my work even in its inchoate stages.

Thanks to Anne Ten Dyke for carefully proofreading the final manuscript and to Muriel Ten Dyke for cheerfully acting as nanny in Dresden during December 1998 and January 1999. Thanks also to Richard Ten Dyke for preparing the photographs and for being an extremely knowledgeable and helpful computer resource.

Finally, without the infinite patience and support of all the members of my extended family I never would have had the opportunity to write these words. I thank you the most of all.

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