The German Reunification on display: Museums and exhibitions in Berlin after 1989
Journal title MEMORIA E RICERCA
Author/s Costanza Calabretta
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/44 Language Italian
Pages 19 P. 197-215 File size 146 KB
DOI 10.3280/MER2013-044012
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The article aim is to analyze how Berlin museums display the peaceful revolution (the movement that caused the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of GDR) and the following German reunification. The article focuses on four different historical-museums (Deutsches Historisches Museum, DDR-Museum, Mauer-Museum, Stasi-Museum). Furthermore it examines two temporary exhibitions («Wir sind das Volk!» and «1990: der Weg zur Einheit»), that took place in Berlin in 2009/2010. Looking at the different exhibition strategy and at the slightly different historical interpretations the museums offer, the author underlines how museums and exhibitions develop heterogeneous depiction of the 1989/90 events. The museums role in building the public memory is the key-concept of the article, and this inquiry wants to represent a way to analyze it.
Keywords: Gdr, Berlin, peaceful revolution, German reunification, museums and exhibitions, public memory.
Costanza Calabretta, La riunificazione tedesca in mostra. Musei ed esposizioni a Berlino dopo il 1989 in "MEMORIA E RICERCA " 44/2013, pp 197-215, DOI: 10.3280/MER2013-044012