Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germany

Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germany
Author: Derek Lewis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 847
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 144226957X

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germanyprovides a comprehensive overview of most aspects of life and institutions in contemporary Germany. It also introduces the reader to the historical development of both East and West Germany between 1949 and 1990, and addresses the various issues arising from reunification. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germany contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Germany.

Building Nazi Germany

Building Nazi Germany
Author: Joshua Hagen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2019-08-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0742567990

This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power. The authors show that it was an intentional program to thoroughly reorganize the country's economic, cultural, and political landscapes in order to create a dramatically new Germany, saturated with Nazi ideology.

Kollhoff & Timmermann Architects: Hans Kollhoff

Kollhoff & Timmermann Architects: Hans Kollhoff
Author: Hans Kollhoff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2004-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This volume is a complete monograph on the work of German architect Hans Kollhoff (b. 1946) and his partner, Helga Timmerman (b. 1953), with whom he has collaborated since 1984. It presents 100 buildings and projects completed by Kollhoff and his firm since the 1970s, beginning with his Project for an Analogous City of 1976 and including competitions, office and multiuse buildings, banks, apartment complexes, and urban planning. Kollhoff began his teaching and investigations into the city during the postmodern debates of the 1970s, when he studied with O.M. Ungers at Cornell University. Since that time he has focused on large-scale architecture and its role in preserving the urban landscape, striving to discover the essence in traditional architecture, and to build a new tradition from it. Jasper Cepl introduces this book with an investigative essay examining Kollhoff’s career and theoretical direction since the late 1960s. Following the introduction are 100 projects presented chronologically, including recent work in Berlin, such as the DaimlerChrysler Highrise Building (2000), the Extension of the Pergamon Museum (2000), and the renovation of the Former Seat of the Reichsbank for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1999).

Building Berlin

Building Berlin
Author: Architektenkammer Berlin
Publisher: Braun Publishing AG
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2014
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783037681602

Berlin is a magnet for archiecture enthusiasts the world over - but not just because of the city's own dynamic and innovative architectural landscape. The work of Berlin's architects and urban planners also enjoys an international reputation. Every year brings with it interesting developments: exciting new arts and cultural buildings, such as the recently opened Museum for Architectural Drawing; innovative ideas for more attractive homes; original designs for outdoor spaces and interiors; and cautious modernisations of famous rchitectural treasures. This volume presents the most interesting projects in and from Berlin. Essays on selected trends and topics in architecture and urban planning augment the project overview, ranging from the boom of the Plattenbau tower block as housing for creatives to the reuse of urban airports.

Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History

Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History
Author: Simone Lässig
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785335545

What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the implications have been across different eras and social contexts. Working from an expansive concept of “the spatial,” these contributions look not only at physical sites but at professional, political, institutional, and imaginative realms, as well as historical Jewish experiences of spacelessness. Together, they encompass spaces as varied as early modern print shops and Weimar cinema, always pointing to the complex intertwining of German and Jewish identity.