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New PDF release: Stories without borders : the Berlin Wall and the making of

By Julia Sonnevend

ISBN-10: 0190604301

ISBN-13: 9780190604301

ISBN-10: 019060431X

ISBN-13: 9780190604318

How do tales of specific occasions become international myths, whereas others fade away? What turns into identified and noticeable as a world iconic occasion? In tales with no Borders, Julia Sonnevend considers the ways that we recount and bear in mind information tales of ancient value. concentrating on newshounds protecting the autumn of the Berlin Wall and on next retellings of the development in various methods - from Legoland reenactments to slabs of the Berlin Wall put in in international towns - Sonnevend discusses how yes occasions develop into outfitted up in order that humans in lots of components of the realm keep in mind them for lengthy classes of time. She argues that 5 dimensions verify the viability and sturdiness of overseas information occasions. First, a foundational narrative needs to be validated with convinced preconditions. subsequent, the proven narrative turns into universalized and a legendary message constructed. This message is then condensed and encapsulated in an easy word, a brief narrative, and a recognizable visible scene. Counter-narratives emerge that reinterpret occasions and in flip facilitate their diffusion throughout a number of media structures and altering social and political contexts. Sonnevend examines those 5 components during the advancements of November nine, 1989 - what got here to be often called the autumn of the Berlin Wall. tales without boundary lines concludes with a dialogue of ways worldwide iconic occasions have a permanent impression on members and societies, stating that once universal currencies, army alliances, and foreign courts have failed, tales could be all that we have got to carry wish and unity.

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For instance, while 1948 means the War of Independence for Israelis, the same year is marked as Nakba (“catastrophe”) in the Palestinian consciousness. Other counter-​narratives deny the scale of an event, questioning its significance. A prominent example is the 1915–​1918 Armenian genocide perpetrated by the declining Ottoman Empire. Many countries accept it as “genocide,” while others, led by Turkey as successor to the Ottoman Empire, find this label excessive and ahistorical. Even a hundred years after the event, choosing a label for mass murder remains a global political issue with high diplomatic stakes.

Erected in 2009. Photo: Julia Sonnevend, 2015. 44 stories without borders Wall. Neither of them stands alone, but together they may help solve the puzzle. The first reason is aesthetic and has to do with the changing architectural design of the Wall. The second is political and relates to effective propaganda from both sides. As described above, the four generations of the Berlin Wall progressed toward a coherent wall image. Looking from the west side, the provisional, rough, and shoddy “patchwork wall” over time began to look more and more like a professionally designed wall system.

It was a relatively hopeful time for East German politics, and the Wall’s design reflected a newly gained confidence. At the same time, the increasingly professional and expensive Wall also helped to conceal the economic realities of the GDR: it was meant to hide the country’s growing despair and highly inefficient economy. Telling the story of four generations of walls brings to light the changing aesthetics of, and politics around, the Wall. 8 This narrative of a “single wall” focuses only on how the Berlin Wall changed over the years as seen from the Western side; it pays little attention to the physical obstacles on the Eastern side of the border.

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