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<p>The contribution focuses on the origin, genesis and transformation of (n)ostalgy in the new German Bundesländer. It focuses on the political-ideological, life biography, societal and economic frame of ostalgy and presents this phaenomenon as a general East-Central European feature. Later, it specifically analyses the East German case presenting and analysing the uniqueness of this case. The intra-German discourse is used as the main shape for such analysis, and the bipolarisation of the discourse and the stereotypes used. In the last analytical part we present the transmission of ostalgic supporters of the successor Party of Democratic Socialism towards the new radical party Alternative for Germany, showing the overlap of ostalgy as the socio-economic and ideo-political background with the new forms of anti-liberal and nativist stances.</p>
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The contribution focuses on the origin, genesis and transformation of (n)ostalgy in the new German Bundesländer. It focuses on the political-ideological, life biography, societal and economic frame of ostalgy and presents this phaenomenon as a general East-Central European feature. Later, it specifically analyses the East German case presenting and analysing the uniqueness of this case. The intra-German discourse is used as the main shape for such analysis, and the bipolarisation of the discourse and the stereotypes used. In the last analytical part we present the transmission of ostalgic supporters of the successor Party of Democratic Socialism towards the new radical party Alternative for Germany, showing the overlap of ostalgy as the socio-economic and ideo-political background with the new forms of anti-liberal and nativist stances.

Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) Germany

PhD student at the Department of Political Science and Anglophone Studies

Politics in Central Europe

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The contribution focuses on the origin, genesis and transformation of (n)ostalgy in the new German Bundesländer. It focuses on the political-ideological, life...

Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) Germany

Published Online: Apr 02, 2023

Page range: 43 - 60

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2023-0003

Keywords
nostalgia, ostalgy, post-Communism, East Germany, counter-cosmopolitanism

© 2023 Petr Körfer, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) Germany

Published Online: Apr 02, 2023

Page range: 43 - 60

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2023-0003

Keywordsnostalgia, ostalgy, post-Communism, East Germany, counter-cosmopolitanism

© 2023 Petr Körfer, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
nostalgia, ostalgy, post-Communism, East Germany, counter-cosmopolitanism