Secularization, Religious Denominations, and Differences in Regional Characteristics: The State of Research and a Regional Statistical Investigation for Germany by Christian Diller, Philipp Gareis

“…In particular, there is an obvious difference in secularization between the East German and West German states in relation to the significance of the two large Christian denominations. …”
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Eine kurze Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Science Fiction by Hans Esselborn

“…After the Second World War, there was an ideological split between West and East German literature although they dealt with similar topics like the atomic disaster. …”
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Mixing Pop Art and Political Criticism: Heinz Edelmann’s Artwork for Children by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

“…Kathrinchen ging spazieren (1973), by contrast, is a picturebook story with nonsensical verses by the East German playwright Peter Hacks and subliminally refers to the causes of consumerism and careless wishes. …”
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Linguistic patterns and frames in the context of the concept “wall in minds” by Nicole Palliwoda, Verena Sauer, Stephanie Sauermilch

“…However, categories such as Ossi, East German or Wessi, West German can still be found today, although the terms for the inhabitants of the GDR (Ossi, Ostdeutsch, Ostler etc.) are more productive. …”
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Unemployed and Without a Clue - On the Framing of Stereotypical Evaluations of Unemployed in the Regional Newspapers Nordkurier and Volksstimme by Stephan Sielschott

“…Based on a theoretical and empirical conjunction of the social-psychological Stereotype Content Model with the communication-scientific concept of Framing, this study shows that the coverage of the East German regional newspapers Nordkurier and Volksstimme is in contrast dominated by the stereotype of the incompetent unemployed. …”
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Feminism in the German Democratic Republic: the discreet charm of the bourgeois literary tradition by Paul, G

“…The paper investigates the literary treatment of historical women figures from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century as vehicles for the discussion of feminist issues in the East German literature of the 1970s and 1980s. In contrast to the SED's allegiance to a socialist feminist tradition derived from August Bebel and Clara Zetkin, focussing on social policy to promote women's emancipation, Christa Wolf's work on the women Romantics turns to the critique of patriarchal structures and the strengthening of female subjectivity through group solidarity. …”

Regime structures, intra-elite factions and the problem of authoritarian control by Thomson, H

“…I illustrate these arguments with an account of the East German regime’s response to the June 17 uprising in 1953, including analysis of an original dataset on secret police informants and food supplies after the unrest.…”

Wissensnetze im Stadtumbau des Landes Brandenburg — Analysen und Empfehlungen by Kerstin Büttner, Christiane Droste, Bastian Lange, Gerhard Mahnken

“… With all their strength, the East German states are struggling to maintain the highly mobile resource “human capital”. …”
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COVID-19 conspiracy belief and conceptions of democracy by Anne Küppers, Marion Reiser

“…Using data from a representative survey conducted in the East German Land of Thuringia in summer 2021 and by employing a fine-grained measure of attributes of democracy, we show that Covid-19 conspiracy belief is neither significantly associated with support for the idea of democracy nor with support for non-democratic forms of government. …”
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Regenerierung von Innenstädten unter Schrumpfungsbedingungen. Evaluation eines Städtewettbewerbs und Analyse dessen Rolle für Klein- und Mittelstädte in Sachsen by K. Schade, S. Radisch, M. Hübscher, J. Ringel

“…<p>Many East German cities face long-term shrinking processes, which contribute to declining city centers. …”
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Regional Policy and Greenfield Investments in German Districts by Martijn J. Burger, Jelmer Schalk, Daniel Schiller, Spyridon Stavropoulos

“…We find that place-based policies have the strongest effect on investments in the East German lagging regions. However, policies predominantly attract standardised types of investments that require considerable capital investments but not specialised location advantages.…”
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Transformation Research and the Longue Durée of 1989: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Data by Kerstin Brückweh, Kathrin Zöller

“…With the German Socio-Economic Panel and especially the Saxonian Longitudinal Study as an example, the article refers to the content of the studies itself – in this case, the East German school as a site of life-worlds in upheaval. …”
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30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Features of Germany’s Economic Unification by Vladislav Belov

“…The author explores the consequences of economic transformation, the activities of the Privatization authorities and the results of the fundamental restructuring of the East German economy 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.…”
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O que acontecerá com o modelo alemão? Engajando fontes de diversidade ao nível da empresa dentro da economia alemã by Stefan Kirchner

“…This article summarizes important challenges by discussing four distinct sources of diversity in Germany’s economy: transformations of the institutional framework; key firm-level sources of diversity in Germany’s economy; SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) as a forgotten pillar of German capitalism; and the East German path in the German model. Overall, the article argues that the traditional German model has been substantially transformed. …”
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Między potępieniem a (n)ostalgią by Katarzyna Gelles

“…Their dissatisfaction is consciously and effectively exploited by the populist Alternative for Germany party. How the East German heritage becomes an instrument of political influence is the leading question of this article. …”
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Wie Städte dem Umland Paroli bieten können by Brigitte Adam, Kathrin Driessen, Angelika Münter

“…Interviews executed among migrants in two West and two East German regions moving from cities to the surrounding area have provided comparative regional results on household structures, mobility patterns, the process of deciding to migrate but also on later reflections upon this decision. …”
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Pendelbereitschaft von Arbeitnehmern in Deutschland by Hans-Friedrich Eckey, Reinhold Kosfeld, Matthias Türck

“…A local analysis shows that the influence of distance on commuting is higher in East German regions than in West Germany. One reason for that result may be the lower wages in East Germany. …”
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"East Germany Lives!”: An Encounter with Rural Graffiti by Anne Winkler

“…This essay undertakes a provisional reading of spray-painted writing on a dilapidated rural bus shelter that I encountered while investigating cultural practices that evoke and invoke the East German past in contemporary Germany. The graffiti, which read “DDR lebt!” …”
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Rural areas of Eastern Germany: modern challenges by Klüter Helmut, Levchenkov Andrei

“…In our study we address the problems and challenges that hinder sustainable development of East German rural areas. We analyse agricultural statistics and describe the structure of agricultural enterprises, land-use, and other critical dimensions of agriculture. …”
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Metamorphosis of Mining Landscapes in the Lower Lusatian Lignite Basin (Germany): New Uses and New Image of a Mining Region by Michel Deshaies

“…Since German reunification, the landscapes of the East German lignite basins, which have been shaped by open-cast mining, have undergone a profound transformation as a result of the closure of most of the mines. …”
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