VIGONI-Programm

The proposed research aims at investigating German literary phenomena and media culture in the period between the end of World War II and the erection of the Berlin Wall. Although the scientific interest has been focusing quite extensively on the culture of the Long Fifties, an integrated research of both the famous literary and the popular cultural products in the perspective of a comparison between BRD and DDR is yet to be done the popular cultural products we are referring to being the movie and, above all, the Sachbuch, which was pretty successful at the time. The handbook resulting from the present research project is intended to articulate for the first time this integrated approach through specific thematic complexes, personal networks and medial constellations. Keywords: generations, identity, cultural memory, heritage, east-west conflicts and affinities, cold war, violence.