Dr. Anna Saunders

Geb. 1976, Professor seit 2019, Liverpool, Großbritannien/Nordirland

German Studies (Fachgebiet) - DDR Geschichte; Erinnerungskulturen; Deutscher Film; Deutsche Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts; Deutsche Sprache (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

The University of Liverpool - School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, Cypress Building - Chatham Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZR

Forschungsgebiete

Besondere Forschungsgebiete

DDR Geschichte und Jugendkultur
Denkmäler
#Erinnerungskulturen
Ostdeutschland seit 1989

Monographien

Honecker’s Children: Youth and Patriotism in Eastern Germany (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)
Memorializing the GDR: Monuments and Memory after 1989 (Oxford; New York: Berghahn, 2018)

Aufsätze und Beiträge

'The Eventisation of Anniversary Activity: Investing in 1989, in German Life and Letters, 73 (2020) 3, 464-489
'The Politics of Memory in Berlin's Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal', in Remembering and Rethinking the GDR: Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities, ed. by Anna Saunders and Debbie Pinfold (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 164- 78
The Luxemburg Legacy: Concretising the Remembrance of a Controversial Heroine?’, German History, 29 (2011) 1, 36-56
‘The Ghosts of Lenin, Thälmann and Marx in the Post-Socialist Cityscape’, German Life and Letters, 63 (2010) 4, 441-457
‘Challenging or Concretising Cold War Narratives? Berlin’s Memorial to the Victims of 17 June 1953’, in Memorialization in Germany since 1945, ed. by Bill Niven and Chloe Paver (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 298-307
Remembering Cold War Division: Wall Remnants and Border Monuments in Berlin’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 17 (2009) 1, 9-19

‘Junge Identitäten und die Wende’, in Views from Abroad: Die DDR aus britischer Perspektive, ed. Peter Barker, Marc-Dietrich Ohse and Dennis Tate (Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, 2007), pp. 137-147
‘Normalising the Past: East German Culture and Ostalgie’, in German Culture, Politics and Literature into the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Normalization, ed. by Paul Cooke and Stuart Taberner (Rochester: Camden House, 2006), 89-103
'Wenn es so wäre wie im Geschichtsbuch': The Historical Consciousness of East Germany's Youth before and after Unification', in Field Studies: German Language, Media and Culture. CUTG Proceedings, vol 5, ed. Carol Fehringer and Holger Briel (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005), 177-95
‘Growing up on the Front Line: Young East Germans and the Effects of Militarism during the 1980s’, Debatte, 13 (2005) 3, 283-97
'"Schrecklich leere Gemüseläden", "nicht wirklich Sozialismus" and "Gemeinschaftsgefühl": Young East Germans' Perceptions of the GDR', German as a Foreign Language, (2004) 3, 25-42
'Ostdeutschland: Heimat einer xenophoben Tradition?', Berliner Debatte INITIAL, 14 (2003) 2, 50-59
'The Socialist and Post- socialist Jugendweihe: Symbol of an Evolving East(ern) German Identity', Focus on German Studies, 9 (2002), 43-60

Dissertation (Titel) The State’s Youth and the Youth’s State: Young People and Patriotism in East(ern) Germany, 1979-2002

Dissertation - Jahr der Publikation 2004

Herausgebertätigkeit

Anniversary Capital, Special Issue of German Life and Letters, 2020, Vol. 73 (guest editor)
ed. with Debbie Pinfold, Remembering and Rethinking the GDR: Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
ed. with Laura Rorato, The Essence and the Margin: National Identities and Collective Memories in Contemporary European Culture, 'Studia Imagologica' series vol. 15, (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009) (Introduction, pp. 9-20)

Forschergruppen, Forschungsprojekte AHRC-funded 'After the Wall' Network: http:/ / afterthewall. bangor. ac. uk/

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland: Vice-President

Letzte Aktualisierung: Mon Oct 21 21:44:58 2024

Dr. Anna Saunders

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