Sprache und Herrschaft in der DDR. Einleitende Überlegungen

Lüdtke, Alf

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“…Perhaps inadvertently, this representation included nationalistic and imperialistic aspirations of East Germany through the rescue of "child-like natives" from the exploitation of capitalists and the rapid industrialization of the Amazon Rain Forest without thought to the ecological ramifications. 71 This privileging of East Germany technology was common throughout the Mosaik stories as was the imperialist need to spread socialism to other cultures, demonstrating to these cultures the perceived superiority of socialism. The Weltraum-Serie or the Weltraumabenteuer (Space Series or the Space Adventures), alternately, ran from 1958 until 1962.…”

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“…At the same time, the technology employed by the alien socialist society echoed developments in the East German technological sphere, suggesting that not only was socialism the superior political/economic system upon which the future would be built, but also that the technology industries that maintained this privileged space within the East German imaginary would be the basis for future technological innovations. 71 Augustine, 236. 72 German due to the presence of a Trabant car in the background.…”

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“…For more on comics as indicative of propaganda and specifically their uses during the Cold War in Germany, see Patrick Major, "'Smut and Trash:' Germany's Culture Wars Against Pulp Fiction," in Mass Media, Culture, and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany, ed. Karl Christian Führer and Corey Ross (Houndsmills: Palgrave, 2006), 234-50; in the Soviet Bloc generally, see Stroemberg,[63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76] in America, see John Donovan, "Parody and Propaganda: Fighting American and the Battle Against Crime and Communism in the 1950s," in Comic Books and American Cultural History, ed. Matthew Pustz (New York: Continuum, 2012), 110-9;Alexander Maxwell, "East Europeans in the Cold War Comic, This Godless Communism," in Comic Books andthe Cold War, 1946-1962: As the Digedags crossed the American continent, celebrating the perceived heroic deeds of American workers, and thus of socialism internationally, such as the clearing of the wilderness and the construction of the transcontinental railroad, they deconstructed the United States as an ideological enemy of the GDR.…”

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“…70 Following complaints regarding its poorly perceived representation of history and character ethnicity during the Digedags' early adventures, the Weltraum-Serie emerged in December 1958 as the most ideological story to date, driven by the increasing interest in space and technology in the late 1950s fostered by the successful orbital launch of the Sputnik satellite. 71 The story itself revolved around the kidnapping of Dig and Dag, two of the three main characters of Mosaik, to the planet Neos. 72 Their adventures over the next two years served to introduce children to the science and technology essential to the construction of socialism in the East German state as the comics were peppered with "textbook-like explanations of technology."…”

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“…Mosaik was itself a very male-oriented publication having little interaction between the genders and when men and women did interact, women were by no means in positions of authority. 71 However, as Paul Betts points out, gender difference is crucial to privacy and the domestic as women wrote most of the Eingaben and more often dominated campaigns for improvement in the localities social, cultural, educational, and organizational lives. 72 These Kinderzeitschriften were brought into and, more often than not, consumed within the domestic.…”

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Comic Books and Culture in the German Democratic Republic, 1955-1990: Between Constructions of Power and Childhood

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In 1955, the East German Socialist Unity Party issued the Regulations for the Protection of Youth as a means of controlling publications for children and young people coming across the relatively open German-German border. At the same time, the regime authorized the creation of socialist comics in order to fill the gaps these regulations left in children's entertainment.However, as socialist alternatives to the perceived trash and filth represented by western comics and American influence, these East German comics were employed as extensions of the regime's education system, delivering the state's ideology in its efforts to develop the socialist personality among youth and generate genuine enthusiasm for the construction of state-socialism. Just as these comics organized children's activities and leisure time, they were taken up and read by East German children who made their own meanings of the publications' contents. As much as these comics were meant to fulfill the state's ideological agendas and foster the spirit of socialism within these readers, the children themselves understood comics in terms of the perceived freedoms they allowed. As such, children projected their own desires, interests, and tastes upon these publications. These expectations limited the range of actions available to the regime for drawing these readers into participation with socialism and the SED-state.This dissertation approaches the subject of comics in the German Democratic Republic as constructions of state power and, in keeping with Foucault's governmentality thesis, as levers of power that allowed for the perpetuation of SED control. As children understood comics in ways different from the regime, comics are also examined in terms of Jürgen Habermas' critical public sphere insofar as they provided space for child-readers to make their own sense of the SED-state and the society around them despite these constructions of power. To this end, this dissertation iii examines archival records of the GDR youth groups and issues of Verlag Junge Welt's comics and children's magazines. This study argues that GDR comics were constructions of the regime's power at the same time that they provided fantasies of empowerment, escapism, and constructive of the experience of childhood under socialism. iv

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Comic Books and Culture in the German Democratic Republic, 1955-1990: Between Constructions of Power and Childhood

Eedy¹

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Vom „wesensfremden Konsum“ – Zum Umgang mit der Alkoholproblematik in einem DDR-Großbetrieb

Haack

Schrödter

Grabe

et al. 2021

Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol

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ZusammenfassungDer Beitrag widmet sich dem Umgang mit der Alkoholproblematik in der DDR und spezifisch in Rostock anhand des 1983 entstandenen Dokumentarfilms „Abhängig“. Dabei geht es nicht um eine dezidierte Filmanalyse. Vielmehr fungiert er als Anlass, sich aus mikrohistorischer Perspektive mit den verschiedenen Dimensionen des Umgangs mit Alkoholkranken in einem DDR-Großbetrieb auseinanderzusetzen. Aus historischer Sicht ist der Dokumentarfilm gleich in mehrfacher Hinsicht interessant und eignet sich hervorragend als Quelle und Analyseinstrument der DDR-Psychiatriegeschichte. Es ist das Ineinandergreifen ideen- und sozialgeschichtlicher Perspektiven, die die Spannung zwischen gesellschaftlicher Ächtung einerseits und Anerkennung des Alkoholismus als Krankheit andererseits über das Medium Film erfahrbar macht, zudem Versuche der Etablierung von Therapien in multiprofessionellen Teams und damit Wege aus der Sucht aufzeigt. Ergänzend wird auf erstmals eingesehenes umfangreiches Archivmaterial sowie Zeitzeugeninterviews zurückgegriffen. Nicht zuletzt ermöglicht der Einblick in den Sozialraum „volkseigener“ Großbetrieb (Neptunwerft mit Betriebspoliklinik) einen differenzierten Zugang in die realsozialistische Gesellschaft und deren spezifischen Umgang mit – im weitesten Sinn – abweichenden und in der jeweiligen Interpretation randständig-asozialem oder krankhaftem übermäßigen Alkoholkonsum. Neben dem Aufzeigen verschiedener Sichtweisen auf die Alkoholproblematik in der DDR, in deren Verlauf eine Ausweitung des medizinischen Definitionsbereichs erfolgte, zielt der Beitrag darauf, Anstöße für vergleichende Forschungen zu geben, notwendige Perspektivwechsel aufzuzeigen und langfristig allgemeingültige Aussagen über die Rolle der Psychiatrie im Kontext des Gesundheitswesens der DDR zu treffen.

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Party Politics, Citizen Activism and the Media: Negotiating Gender Roles in the GDR and FRG, 1968-1989

Isberg¹

2013

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Sprache und Herrschaft in der DDR. Einleitende Überlegungen

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Comic Books and Culture in the German Democratic Republic, 1955-1990: Between Constructions of Power and Childhood

Comic Books and Culture in the German Democratic Republic, 1955-1990: Between Constructions of Power and Childhood

Vom „wesensfremden Konsum“ – Zum Umgang mit der Alkoholproblematik in einem DDR-Großbetrieb

Party Politics, Citizen Activism and the Media: Negotiating Gender Roles in the GDR and FRG, 1968-1989

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