CHAPTER 8 Constructing a Socialist Landmark: The Berlin Television Tower

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE Cold War Beginnings
7. CHAPTER 1 Life Among the Ruins: Sex, Space, and Subculture in Zero Hour Berlin 11
8. CHAPTER 2 The Propagandistic Role of Modern Art in Postwar Berlin 23
9. CHAPTER 3 Back to the Future: New Music’s Revival and Redefi nition in Occupied Berlin 34
10. CHAPTER 4 The Nylon Curtain: Architectural Unification in Divided Berlin 46
11. CHAPTER 5 Mediascape and Soundscape: Two Landscapes of Modernity in Cold War Berlin 56
12. PART TWO East Berlin, the Socialist Capital
13. CHAPTER 6 Painting the Berlin Wall in Leipzig: The Politics of Art in 1960s East Germany 69
14. CHAPTER 7 “You Have to Draw a Line Somewhere” Tropes of Division in DEFA Films from the Early 1960s 78
15. CHAPTER 8 Constructing a Socialist Landmark: The Berlin Television Tower 89
16. CHAPTER 9 Transparency in Divided Berlin: The Palace of the Republic 100
17. PART THREE West Berlin, Showcase of the West
18. CHAPTER 10 The Woman Between: Hildegard Knef’s Movies in Cold War Berlin 115
19. CHAPTER 11 Benno Ohnesorg, Rudi Dutschke, and the Student Movement in West Berlin: Critical Reflections after Forty Years 125
20. CHAPTER 12 Berlin and Post-Meinhof Feminism: Yvonne Rainer’s Journeys from Berlin/1971 135
21. CHAPTER 13 Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin as a Cold War Project 145
22. CHAPTER 14 Beyond the Berlin Myth: The Local, the Global and the IBA 87 156
23. PART FOUR Berlin After Unification: Looking Back and Beyond
24. CHAPTER 15 Stereographic City: Berlin Photography in the Wende Era 171
25. CHAPTER 16 Divided City, Divided Heaven? Berlin Border Crossings in Post-Wende Fiction 184
26. CHAPTER 17 Interview with Barbara Hoidn 194
27. Notes on Contributors 204
28. Index of Proper Names: People, Places, and Institutions 209