The media of testimony : Remembering the East German Stasi in the Berlin Republic
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 23916296
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137364043
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137364036
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book is the result of five years of research and writing (2009-2014). It combines six months fieldwork research at memorial museums in multiple locations in Germany (Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Dresden, Bautzen, Rostock, Frankfurt (Oder) and Magdeburg) with close readings of autobiographical writing by registered Stasi informants (Anderson, Kant, de Bruyn), victims of the Stasi (Kunert, S. Schaedlich, Fuchs), multi-author volumes of first person testimony, and four documentary films incorporating testimony from different perspectives. This is framed using an innovative theoretical model that draws on memory studies research in diverse disciplines, as well as tourism studies, literary and film theory.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Chapter Six of this output contains some material in common with the author’s 2013 article 'Memory on Film: Testimonies and Constructions of Authenticity in Documentaries about the German Democratic Republic', submitted to REF2014. However, this is substantially revised and expanded in the book, and reframed in the context of the monograph’s overarching argument. There is also a slight overlap with two further pre-2014 chapters, 'At Home with the Stasi' (2011) and 'Community and Genre' (2012), neither of which were submitted to REF2014. In total, the overlap with work published prior to 2014 equals approximately 10% of the monograph
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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