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Die Erforschung der Transformation Ostdeutschlands seit 1989/90. Ansätze, Voraussetzungen, Wandel
(2022)
In seinem Beitrag skizziert Marcus Böick gesellschaftswissenschaftliche und insbesondere zeithistorische Forschungen zu Ostdeutschland nach 1990. Er unterscheidet dabei vier Phasen der Transformationsforschung: eine ältere „DDR-Forschung“; die Konjunktur einer stark sozial-, politik- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlich dominierten Forschung in den frühen 1990er-Jahren; kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Zugriffe „von unten“; und schließlich die Grundzüge der jüngsten, etwa ab Mitte der 2010er-Jahre einsetzenden und zunehmend auch zeithistorisch geprägten Transformationsforschung. Abschließend werden übergreifende (Zukunfts-)Perspektiven angedeutet, die das Forschungsfeld ein Stück weit aus den innerdeutsch-introspektiven Selbstbeschäftigungen herausführen könnten.
Byron Metos is a Greek collector based in Thessaloniki, whose interest focuses on war photography and more specifically on the photography of the two World Wars in Greece. Part of his collection is titled Balkan und Griechenland (Balkans and Greece) and comprises photographs taken mostly by German soldiers and officers, though also including those by itinerant photographers, during the years of the Nazi Occupation in the Balkans, which have originated from photo albums of German soldiers. During the postwar era, these were acquired by an officer who had served in Greece as a member of the Health Service of the German army. Many years after the War, he decided to trace his own route through the war by adding the photographs of his fellow soldiers to his own photographic souvenirs. After his death, the collection passed to his daughter, who, a year later, sold the section relating to Greece, namely almost three thousand (3,000) photographs, to Byron Metos. The focus of the present paper will be on photos of the “tourist destination” Thessaloniki.