AT THE EDGE OF THE WALL
Studies in Contemporary European History
Editors:
Konrad Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Henry Rousso, Senior Research Fellow at the Institut dhistoire du temps prsent (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)
Volume 26
At the Edge of the Wall: Public and Private Spheres in Divided Berlin
Hanno Hochmuth
Volume 25
Reconciliation Road: Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace
Benedikt Schoenborn
Volume 24
Petitions Resisting Persecution: Negotiating Self-Determination and Survival of European Jews during the Holocaust
Edited by Thomas Pegelow Kaplan and Wolf Gruner
Volume 23
Peace at All Costs: Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish-German Reconciliation
Annika Elisabet Frieberg
Volume 22
From Eastern Bloc to European Union: Comparative Processes of Transformation since 1990
Edited by Gnther Heydemann and Karel Vodika
Volume 21
Migration, Memory, and Diversity: Germany from 1945 to the Present
Edited by Cornelia Wilhelm
Volume 20
Ambassadors of Realpolitik: Sweden, the CSCE and the Cold War
Aryo Makko
Volume 19
Wartime Captivity in the Twentieth Century: Archives, Stories, Memories
Edited by Anne-Marie Path and Fabien Thofilakis
Volume 18
Whose Memory? Which Future? Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in East, Central and Southeastern Europe
Edited by Barbara Trnquist-Plewa
Volume 17
The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 19362016
Edited by Manuel Bragana and Peter Tame
For a full volume listing, please see the series page on our website: http://berghahnbooks.com/series/contemporary-european-history.
AT THE EDGE OF THE WALL
Public and Private Spheres in Divided Berlin
Hanno Hochmuth
Translated by David Burnett
First published in 2021 by
Berghahn Books
www.berghahnbooks.com
English-language edition
2021 Berghahn Books
German-language edition
2017 Wallstein Verlag, Gttingen
Originally published in German as
Kiezgeschichte: Friedrichshain und Kreuzberg im geteilten Berlin
The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International Translation Funding for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG WORT and the Brsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hochmuth, Hanno, author. | Burnett, David L. (David Laurence), 1973translator.
Title: At the edge of the wall : public and private spheres in divided Berlin / Hanno Hochmuth; translated by David Burnett.
Other titles: Kiezgeschichte. English
Description: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2021. | Series: Studies in Contemporary European History ; volume 26 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020033726 (print) | LCCN 2020033727 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789208740 (hardback) | ISBN 9781789208757 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Friedrichshain (Berlin, Germany)History20th century. | Kreuzberg (Berlin, Germany)History20th century. | Berlin (Germany)Social conditions20th century. | City and town lifeGermanyBerlinHistory20th century. | City planningGermanyBerlinHistory20th century.
Classification: LCC DD883.F75 H6413 2021 (print) | LCC DD883.F75 (ebook) | DDC 943/.155dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020033726
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020033727
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978-1-78920-874-0 hardback
ISBN 978-1-78920-875-7 ebook
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My thanks go out first of all to my two mentors: Paul Nolte for kindling my enthusiasm for urban history, the idea to investigate the public and private spheres, and for his competent and patient support; Konrad H. Jarausch for his valuable insights on integrated German postwar history, for his committed and pragmatic guidance, as well as for his generous support in Berlin and Chapel Hill. I am also indebted to Frank Bsch and Martin Sabrow as well as to all my colleagues at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam for their support and understanding.
I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Jens Brinkmann and Tilmann Siebeneichner for their expert advice and precise editing during the course of writing this book. My thanks also go out to the following individuals for their many helpful suggestions and ideas: Stefanie Eisenhuth, Alexander Geppert, Henning Holsten, Markus Klppel, Scott Krause, Wolfgang Krolow, Cornelia Khn, Dirk Moldt, Daniel Morat, Johanna Niedbalski, Werner Tammen, Krijn Thijs, Lothar Uebel and Thomas Werneke. I thank Martin Dspohl, Erika Hausotter, Liudmila Budich and many others at the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum for their years of fabulous support. I would also like to express my gratitude to all of my interview partners for kindly agreeing to talk to me. Johanna Heinecke, Julia Neumann and Stefan Zeppenfeld were helpful with many specific questions. Bodo Mrozek and Hajo Gevers, in charge of the publication of the German edition which came out in 2017 at Wallstein Verlag, were wonderful to work with.
The present English translation of the book was made possible by the Geisteswissenschaften International prize of the Brsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association in Frankfurt. I am deeply grateful to David Burnett for his marvelous English translation. And I thank Chris Chappell and Mykelin Higham for overseeing the publication of the English edition at Berghahn Books.
