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German Reunification of 1990 Collection

The process of German (re-)unification, which began in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, is the subject of several hundreds of materials in the Van Pelt Library collection.

Behind the Wall: An American in East Germany, 1988-1989 by Paul Gleye, and other works.

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Germans continue to refer to the integration of East and West Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) with the Federal Republic of Germany--in German, die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD) using the terms die Wiedervereinigung (literally, reunification), or die Wende, “the Turn,” representing a time and process of reconciliation, reintegration, and healing which, in some respects, continues to this day. These holdings broadly represent both non-fiction and fiction works, from novels and poetry to literary criticism, to historical writing and memoir as well as scholarly work in the social sciences.

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After the Wall: Germany, the Germans, and the Burdens of History by Marc Fisher.
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Die Ausbürgerung: Anfang vom Ende der DDR, Wolf Biermann u. andere Autoren.
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Behind the Wall: An American in East Germany, 1988-1989 by Paul Gleye, and other works.
3 / 9
Konkurrenzen, Konflikte, Kontinuitäten: Generationfragen in der Literatur seit 1990, von Andrea Geier und Jan Süsenbeck.
4 / 9
Post-Ost-Moderne: Poetik nach der DDR von Stephan Pabst.
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Eine schwierige Ehe: Liebe, Geschlecht und die Geschichte der deutschen Wiedervereinigung im Spiegel der Literatur von Alison Lewis.
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Biografische Erfahrungen in Sozialismus / Detlef Garz, Ulrike Nagel, Anja Wildhagen (Hrsg.)
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Typisch Ossi, typisch Wessi: eine längst fällige Abrechnung unter Brüdern und Schwestern / Michael Jürgs, Angela Elis.
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Ein weites Feld von Günter Grass.
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