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The West Knows Best: East Germans Left Behind After Unification.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The West Knows Best: East Germans Left Behind After Unification./
作者:	Puteri, Arwen A.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	242 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-06A.
標題:	History. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28153774
ISBN:	9798698566601

The West Knows Best: East Germans Left Behind After Unification.
Puteri, Arwen A.

The West Knows Best: East Germans Left Behind After Unification. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 242 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Florida, 2020.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

The East-German euphoria of unification in 1989 and the subsequent transition from a communist to a market economy that had promised West German standards and prosperity in East Germany vanished rapidly. A hastily negotiated unification treaty and emerging West German dominance - in numbers and economic power - resulted in vast unemployment, bankruptcies, and the large-scale collapse of the East German economy. In addition, East-German culture, accomplishments, and experiences were not respected and valued in a unified country that was focused on Western values, languages, and ways of life. With nothing to offer, East Germans became hopeless and resentful and developed a feeling of second-class citizens in their own country that is lasting until the present day.This dissertation examines how West Germans constantly and consistently disrespected and delegitimized East-German culture and accomplishments in politics, the arts, education, and everyday life. It argues that the work of East Germans and their accomplishments were not evaluated based on their merit but rather on their East-German origin or East-German party affiliation. For that, this dissertation focuses on the narrative of the leading conservative party of the unification chancellor Helmut Kohl, the CDU. Furthermore, it surveys the dominant West-German newspapers that largely contributed to a public scrutinizing and shaming of everything East German. And lastly, it provides a close reading of post-unification German films that illustrate the challenges East German faced when navigating in a new world. Recognizing the magnitude of this wide-ranging disrespect that is constantly and consistently manifested, provides a counter-narrative of the "Jammerossi" (the whining East German) as East Germans are often berated when complaining about the status quo.

ISBN: 9798698566601Subjects--Topical Terms:

516518
History.
Subjects--Index Terms:

East-German culture

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