What does it mean to be German? Where do the different German-speaking nations get their common culture? German national ethnology, called Volkskunde, is the result of a long history, which is linked to the political construction of Germany, but also of the German-speaking world as a whole.

Film exchanges between the East and West of the Iron Curtain played a decisive role in the cinema of the second half of the 20th century. Tracing the history of film relations between France and the GDR from an unprecedented cross-referencing of sources, from the post-war era until the fall of the Berlin Wall, reveals the circulation of films ...

After almost three decades since the collapse of the GDR, the image of East Germany is still present in television and film, mainly thanks to productions such as Good Bye, Lenin! and The Lives of Others that have deeply influenced our perception of the fall of the Berlin Wall and of life under communism. The primary scope of this book is to not...

From a simple office to assist Chancellor Adenauer in his task of rehabilitating Germany in the world to a quasi-ministerial organization freed from the « Goebbels complex », the Office of Press and Information of the Federal Government gained in a decade considerable importance.

25 years ago, the German Democratic Republic disappeared as a state but what does remain of its heritage ? Specialized scholars will try to answer the question in the triple perspective of « crisis – culture – critique ».

At the turn of the 19th / 20th century, the concept of "research field" appeared within the humanities and social sciences in both Germany and France.

Germany's turbulent 20th-century history deeply shaped the life and work of Berlin writer Klaus Schlesinger (1937-2001). This critical East-German author who emigrated to West-Berlin in the 1980's and lived in Berlin’s subcultures on both sides of the Wall, eludes narrow classifications through his trajectory and the dozen short stories or novels..