Table Of ContentStudies in European Culture and History
edited by
Eric D. Weitz and Jack Zipes
University of Minnesota
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the very meaning of Europe has been
opened up and is in the process of being redefined. European states and societies are wrestling with the
expansion of NATO and the European Union and with new streams of immigration, while a renewed
and reinvigorated cultural engagement has emerged between East and West. But the fast-paced trans-
formations of the last fifteen years also have deeper historical roots. The reconfiguring of contemporary
Europe is entwined with the cataclysmic events of the twentieth century, two world wars and the
Holocaust, and with the processes of modernity that, since the eighteenth century, have shaped Europe
and its engagement with the rest of the world.
Studies in European Culture and History is dedicated to publishing books that explore major issues
in Europe’s past and present from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives. The works in the series are
interdisciplinary; they focus on culture and society and deal with significant developments in Western
and Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century to the present within a social historical context. With
its broad span of topics, geography, and chronology, the series aims to publish the most interesting and
innovative work on modern Europe.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan:
Fascism and Neofascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe
by Eric Weitz
Fictive Theories: Towards a Deconstructive and Utopian Political Imagination
by Susan McManus
German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust: Grete Weil, Ruth Klüger, and the
Politics of Address
by Pascale Bos
Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature: Toward a New Critical Grammar of Migration
by Leslie Adelson
Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory: From Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11
by Gene Ray
Transformations of the New Germany
edited by Ruth Starkman
Caught by Politics: Hitler Exiles and American Visual Culture
edited by Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick
Legacies of Modernism: Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890–1950
edited by Patrizia C. McBride, Richard W. McCormick, and Monika Zagar
Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution
edited by Klaus Mladek
Richard Wagner for the New Millennium: Essays in Music and Culture
edited by Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, Alex Lubet, and Gottfried Wagner
Representing Masculinity: Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture
edited by Stefan Dudink, Anna Clark, and Karen Hagemann
Remembering the Occupation in French Film: National Identity in Postwar Europe
by Leah D. Hewitt
“Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture
edited by Valentina Glajar and Domnica Radulescu
Choreographing the Global in European Cinema and Theater
by Katrin Sieg
Converting a Nation: A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy
by Ariella Lang
German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins
edited by Wilfried Wilms and William Rasch
Germans, Poland, and Colonial Expansion to the East
edited by Robert L. Nelson
Cinema after Fascism: The Shattered Screen
by Siobhan S. Craig
Weimar Culture Revisited
edited by John Alexander Williams
Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust
edited by Valentina Glajar and Jeanine Teodorescu
The German Wall: Fallout in Europe
edited by Marc Silberman
Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka’s Cages
edited by A. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris Vardoulakis
German Unification
edited by Peter C. Caldwell and Robert R. Shandley
Anti-Americanism in European Literature
Jesper Gulddal
Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity
Ofer Ashkenazi
Baader-Meinhof and the Novel: Narratives of the Nation / Fantasies of the Revolution, 1970–2010
Julian Preece
France, Film and the Holocaust: From Génocide to Shoah
Ferzina Banaji
Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imaginary, 1900–2010
edited by James Mackay and David Stirrup
The Balkan Prospect
Vangelis Calotychos
Violence and Gender in the “New” Europe: Islam in German Culture
Beverly M. Weber
One Family’s Shoah: Victimization, Resistance, Survival in Nazi Europe
Herbert Lindenberger
Memory and Postwar Memorials: Confronting the Past as Violence
edited by Marc Silberman and Florence Vatan
Punk Rock and German Crisis: Adaptation and Resistance after 1977
Cyrus M. Shahan
Reimagining the European Family: Cultures of Immigration
Patricia Anne Simpson
Jorge Semprún and the Spanish Holocaust: The Duty of the Witness, The Task of the Writer
Ofelia Ferrán and Gina Herrmann
The Novel-Essay, 1884–1947
Stefano Ercolino
Transnationalism and the German City
edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Janet Ward
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Transnationalism and the German City
Edited by
Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Janet Ward
TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE GERMAN CITY
Copyright © Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Janet Ward, 2014.
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-39016-5
All rights reserved.
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Transnationalism and the German city / edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf
and Janet Ward.
pages cm.—(Palgrave studies in European culture and history)
Includes index.
1. Urbanization—Social aspects—Germany. 2. Transnationalism—
Germany. 3. Nationalism—Germany. 4. Sociology, Urban—Germany.
I. Diefendorf, Jeffry M., 1945– II. Ward, Janet, 1963–
HT384.G3T73 2014
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Introduction Transnationalism and the German City 1
Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Janet Ward
Part I Contested Urban Publics
One E nlightenment in the European City: Rethinking German
Urbanism and the Public Sphere 13
Daniel Purdy
Two Posen or Poznań, Rathaus or Ratusz: Nationalizing the
Cityscape in the German-Polish Borderland 37
Elizabeth A. Drummond
Three Inclusion and Segregation in Berlin, the “Social City” 55
Stephan Lanz
Four “Wild Barbecuing”: Urban Citizenship and the Politics of
Transnationality in Berlin’s Tiergarten 73
Bettina Stoetzer
Part II Crossing Boundaries in
Modern German Planning
Five Transnational Dimensions of German Anti-Modern
Modernism: Ernst May in Breslau 89
Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Six W as There an Ideal Socialist City? Socialist New Towns as
Modern Dreamscapes 105
Rosemary Wakeman
Seven Housing as Transnational Provocation in Cold War Berlin 125
Greg Castillo
Eight Transatlantic Crossings of Planning Ideas: The Neighborhood
Unit in the USA, UK, and Germany 141
Dirk Schubert
viii / contents
Part III City Cultures and the German
Transnational Imaginary
Nine Princes and Fools, Parades and Wild Women: Creating,
Performing, and Preserving Urban Identity through
Carnival in Cologne and Basel 161
Jeffry M. Diefendorf
Ten The Local, the National—and the Transnational? Spatial
Dimensions in Hamburg’s Memory of World War I
during the Weimar Republic 173
Janina Fuge
Eleven From the American West to West Berlin: Wim Wenders,
Border Crossings, and the Transnational Imaginary 187
Nicole Huber and Ralph Stern
Part IV German Urban Heritage
for a Transnational Era
Twelve Post–Postwar Re-Construction of a Destroyed Heimat:
Perspectives on German Discourse and Practice 207
Grischa F. Bertram and Friedhelm Fischer
Thirteen Berlin’s Museum Island: Marketing the German National
Past in the Age of Globalization 223
Tracy Graves
Fourteen The Historic Preservation Fallacy? Transnational Culture,
Urban Identity, and Monumental Architecture in
Berlin and Dresden 239
John V. Maciuika
Notes on Contributors 261
Index 265
Figures
Book Cover Puzzle map: Germany and other countries. Source: Image courtesy of
Maria Mitrofanova / Fotalia.
1.1 Marketplace with private houses attached, from Johann Friedrich
Penther, Ausführliche Anleitung zur bürgerlichen Bau-Kunst, vol. 4 24
1.2 Interior of late eighteenth-century Bürgerhaus, in Der bürgerliche
Baumeister, oder Versuch eines Unterrichtes für Baulustige,
Friedrich Christian Schmidt 28
2.1 Rival postcards of German Posen (from 1910 to 1915) and Polish
Poznań (from before 1918) 38
2.2 The Town Hall (Ratusz / Rathaus) in Poznań / Posen’s old market
square (Stary Rynek / Alter Markt) 45
4.1 “Wild barbecuing” (wildes Grillen) in Berlin’s Tiergarten 74
6.1 Vacationers view new town of Stalinstadt (later: Eisenhüttenstadt),
German Democratic Republic 109
6.2 New apartment blocks at Halle-Neustadt, German
Democratic Republic 119
7.1 East Berlin’s “Highrise on the Weberwiese” (1951–52,
architect Hermann Henselmann) 135
11.1 Film set photos from Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire
(Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987) 189
12.1 Reconstruction Projects in Germany, 1960–2010 208
12.2 German Re-Construction Projects since 1975 213
13.1 Three-dimensional model of the future Museum Island Berlin
showing the path of the Archaeological Promenade; view from
the south (2012) 226
14.1 Postcard view of the Black Helmets Guild Hall
(Schwartzhäupterhaus), Riga, Latvia, in 1910 245
14.2 George Bähr, Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche), Dresden,
in 1910; originally constructed 1726–1743 248
14.3 Heinz Graffunder Architectural Collective, exterior view of
the Palast der Republik, East Berlin, 1973–1976; here, c. 1980 252
14.4 The “Ghost Palace,” Berlin 255
