Heterogeneity in Trajectories of Life Satisfaction After Reunification: The Role of Individual Resources and Life Stage in Former East Germany
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-021-02780-x
Abstract: For people living in the former East Germany, reunification with the former West Germany fundamentally transformed the sociopolitical system and most domains of everyday life. Previous research has revealed temporal shifts in average life satisfaction… read more here.
Keywords: satisfaction; east germany; life satisfaction; former east ... See more keywords
Prussian Palimpsests: Historic Architecture and Urban Spaces in East Germany, 1945–1961
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008938917000280
Abstract: Abstract This article considers the fate of Prussian buildings and memorials in East Germany between 1945 and 1961. Analyzing a number of case studies from Berlin and Potsdam, it places the treatment of these structures… read more here.
Keywords: east germany; 1945 1961; prussian palimpsests; palimpsests historic ... See more keywords
A People's Music: Jazz in East Germany, 1945–1990. By Helma Kaldewey. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xxviii + 315. Cloth $ 99.99. ISBN 978-1108486187.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008938921000625
Abstract: reality. Jewish life, alongside the field of Jewish studies, is again finding a home in today’s Germany. In the collection’s final chapter, Irit Dekel considers the transnational phenomenon of diaspora, particularly a loosely defined contemporary… read more here.
Keywords: people music; dekel; music jazz; east germany ... See more keywords
Bordering the GDR: Everyday Transnationalism, Global Entanglements and Regimes of Mobility at the Edges of East Germany
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008938922001017
Abstract: Abstract No state has ever been as identified with its borders as the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The guest editors’ introduction to this special issue analyzes the development of the historiography of the borders of… read more here.
Keywords: gdr; gdr everyday; history; border ... See more keywords
Cold War Narcotics Trafficking, the Global War on Drugs, and East Germany's Illicit Transnational Entanglements
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008938922001042
Abstract: Abstract Although it lacked a significant domestic market for internationally trafficked drugs, East Germany emerged as an important corridor for narcotics smugglers in the 1970s due to its position between supply countries in Asia and… read more here.
Keywords: narcotics trafficking; war; drugs east; geography ... See more keywords
Competing contexts of reception in refugee and immigrant incorporation: Vietnamese in West and East Germany
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DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2020.1724418
Abstract: ABSTRACT Scholars have long recognised the importance of contexts of reception in shaping the integration of immigrants and refugees in a host society. Studies of refugees, in particular, have examined groups where the different dimensions… read more here.
Keywords: refugee immigrant; reception refugee; contexts reception; east germany ... See more keywords
The Workhouse Dresden-Leuben After 1945: A Microstudy of Local Continuities in Postwar East Germany
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DOI: 10.1177/0022009418771747
Abstract: By using the workhouse of Dresden as a microstudy, this article explores local continuities in postwar East Germany. It argues that this example not only illustrates the persistence of mentalities towards ‘sexual and social deviance’,… read more here.
Keywords: postwar east; east germany; continuities postwar; workhouse dresden ... See more keywords
Co-Circulation of Different Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3 Subtypes in Pigs and Wild Boar in North-East Germany, 2019
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DOI: 10.3390/pathogens11070773
Abstract: Hepatitis E is a major cause of acute liver disease in humans worldwide. The infection is caused by hepatitis E virus (HEV) which is transmitted in Europe to humans primarily through zoonotic foodborne transmission from… read more here.
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