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Icon Dresden explores how memory and politics in Dresden after its 1945 bombing are deeply intertwined with the city’s urban history. It highlights the complex origins of Dresden’s reputation as an exclusively cultural center, focusing on urban planning, marketing, tourism, and the city’s visual arc...
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Michigan State University Press
2026
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| author | Vees-Gulani, Susanne |
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| description | Icon Dresden explores how memory and politics in Dresden after its 1945 bombing are deeply intertwined with the city’s urban history. It highlights the complex origins of Dresden’s reputation as an exclusively cultural center, focusing on urban planning, marketing, tourism, and the city’s visual archive since the 17th century. Based on this iconic status, a narrative of victimhood arose after its destruction that ignored responsibilities while highlighting the city’s innocence. Despite its origin in Nazi propaganda, this narrative influenced postwar political discourse in socialist and post-reunification Germany. Icon Dresden also provides insight into Dresden’s role under National Socialism and the GDR’s evasive response to this history. It reveals how the strong presence of far-right movements in the city today stems from multiple discourses formed over centuries and communicated from generation to generation. Drawing on urban, heritage, and tourism studies, visual and memory studies, and environmental psychology, Icon Dresden examines Dresden’s history, identity, visual representations, and rebuilding decisions. It exposes the narratives that define its place in German and international memory and how, paradoxically, they support both Dresden’s current image as a symbol of peace and reconciliation and its backing of nativist and far-right movements. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1736302026-03-19T13:26:35Z Icon Dresden Vees-Gulani, Susanne Dresden World War II Bombing Air war Baroque Architecture War destruction Rebuilding Saxony East Germany GDR World War II and Holocaust remembrance in the GDR Romanticism Bernardo Bellotto Canaletto National Socialism November Pogrom Travel and Tourism Remembrance Far-right politics Pegida AfD Augustus the Strong Frederick Augustus II Frauenkirche German Victim Discourse thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSR Social groups: religious groups and communities thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWR Specific wars and campaigns::NHWR7 Second World War Icon Dresden explores how memory and politics in Dresden after its 1945 bombing are deeply intertwined with the city’s urban history. It highlights the complex origins of Dresden’s reputation as an exclusively cultural center, focusing on urban planning, marketing, tourism, and the city’s visual archive since the 17th century. Based on this iconic status, a narrative of victimhood arose after its destruction that ignored responsibilities while highlighting the city’s innocence. Despite its origin in Nazi propaganda, this narrative influenced postwar political discourse in socialist and post-reunification Germany. Icon Dresden also provides insight into Dresden’s role under National Socialism and the GDR’s evasive response to this history. It reveals how the strong presence of far-right movements in the city today stems from multiple discourses formed over centuries and communicated from generation to generation. Drawing on urban, heritage, and tourism studies, visual and memory studies, and environmental psychology, Icon Dresden examines Dresden’s history, identity, visual representations, and rebuilding decisions. It exposes the narratives that define its place in German and international memory and how, paradoxically, they support both Dresden’s current image as a symbol of peace and reconciliation and its backing of nativist and far-right movements. 2026-03-19T13:26:34Z 2026-03-19T13:26:34Z 2026-03-16T16:12:10Z 2026 book ONIX_20260316T122833_9780472905669_10 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111726 9780472905669 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173630 eng Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111726/1/9780472905669.pdf Michigan State University Press University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.14503024 10.3998/mpub.14503024 aa7f6664-5117-41d8-90f8-c3af56526b92 9780472905669 University of Michigan Press 388 open access |
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