Domestic Disputes: Examining Discourses of Home and Property in the Former East Germany

Necia Chronister

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Domestic Disputes

Examining Discourses of Home and Property in the Former East Germany

Necia Chronister

Volume 28 in the series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673975

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About this book

Domestic Disputes is the first monograph in German studies to offer a critical examination of the home ownership crisis in the former East Germany that resulted from unification policy, taking as its focus news media, made-for-television movies, cinematic releases, and prose fiction that depict property disputes between former East and West Germans. In the cultural productions discussed in this book, anxieties about social disenfranchisement through unification policy are dramatized in narratives in which Westerners acquire, or attempt to acquire, property in the former East Germany. Each chapter addresses a different type of narrative that has emerged to frame those anxieties, including those of neocolonial Western takeover, the engagement with difficult family histories, masculinity crises in the West, and the corporatization of home. Domestic Disputes is the first book-length study to outline the way in which homes were awarded to individuals and families as the former East Germany privatized and to offer in-depth examinations of the narratives that emerged from that social phenomenon.

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Necia Chronister, Kansas State University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Home in the East Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Home in the East as a Bureaucratic Nightmare: On Property Claims, Media Representations, and the Informative Function of Television Movies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Chapter 2 Home in the East as a Site of Competing Histories: Our House (Griesmayr, 1991) and The Same Old Song (Stöckl, 1992) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Chapter 3 Home in the East as a Capitalist Battlefield: The Brocken (Glowna, 1992) and No More Mr. Nice Guy (Buck, 1993) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Chapter 4 Home in the East as an Instrument of the Patriarchy: Judith Hermann’s “Summerhouse, Later” (1998) and Where Love Begins (2014) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Chapter 5 Home in the East as a Threat to Men’s Control: Peter Schneider’s Eduard’s Homecoming (1999) and Karen Duve’s Rain (1999) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 6 Home in the East as a Thing of the Past: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Visitation (2008) and Kathrin Gerlof’s Now That’s a Story (2014) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Chapter 7 Home in the East as Corporate Overlord: Juli Zeh’s Unterleuten (2016) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Coda Home in the East as an Ongoing Issue: Sonja Blattner’s drüben Series and the Importance of Considering Medium Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of German Studies; Film Studies; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Central and Eastern European Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 223
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
Keywords: German unification; home; property disputes; privatization

eBook

Published: February 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110673975

Hardcover

Published: February 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110673357

Paperback

Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783111090122