‘Ostalgie doesn’t fit!’: Individual Interpretations of and Interaction with Ostalgie
‘Ostalgie doesn’t fit!’: Individual Interpretations of and Interaction with Ostalgie
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“Ostalgie 不适合！”：Ostalgie 的个人解读及其互动
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2013
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C. Hyland
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自1989年柏林墙倒塌以来，在统一的德国，人们一直在广泛讨论纪念民主德国的过程，奥斯塔基的想法已经成为这些辩论的关键。这种想法被广泛理解为对民主德国的一种怀旧，经常被解读为对社会主义历史的浪漫化，以及试图淡化、甚至忽视威权国家的压迫本质。这些记忆辩论在理解统一后的东方身份方面的重要性不应被低估；正如帕特里夏·霍格伍德在第二章中解释的那样，探索过去的记忆有助于理解当代行为模式。这一章探讨了东方人在构建东德身份时如何与奥斯塔基这个词进行互动和协商。报告借鉴了2009年11月至2010年12月期间对1970年代出生于民主德国、现居住在柏林的东方人进行的一系列深入访谈。这些发现是一个博士项目的一部分，该项目探索了这些人如何构建自己和他人的东方身份，以及他们如何参与并谈判这一过程中的主导话语。采访的设计主要是由参与者主导的，这确保了参与者在没有任何提示的情况下表达了他们自己的看法，以及他们对奥斯塔吉话语的理解。在他们对自己和其他东方人的理解方面，奥斯塔基成为了一个关键理念。
Since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, processes of remembering the GDR have been widely discussed in unified Germany and the idea of Ostalgie has become a key strand in these debates. Broadly understood as a form of nostalgia for the GDR, the idea has often been interpreted as a romanticisation of the socialist past and an attempt to underplay, or even overlook, the oppressive nature of the authoritarian state. The importance of these memory debates in understanding post-unification eastern identities should not be underestimated; as Patricia Hogwood explains in Chapter 2, exploring memories of the past helps to make sense of patterns of contemporary behaviour. This chapter explores how easterners interact with and negotiate the term Ostalgie when constructing east German identities. It draws on a series of in-depth interviews which were carried out between November 2009 and December 2010 with easterners who were born in the GDR in the 1970s and now live in Berlin. The findings are part of a doctoral project which explored how these individuals constructed their own and others’ eastern identities, and how they engaged with and negotiated dominant discourses in this process. The interviews were designed to be largely participant-led, which ensured that participants expressed their own perceptions, as well as their understandings of the discourse about Ostalgie, without any prompting. Ostalgie emerged as a key idea in the ways that they made sense of themselves and of other easterners.