The Professionalization of a Parliament in Transition: The 10th People*s Chamber of the German Democratic Republic (October 1989-October 1990).

民主德国(Volkskammer)人民*S议院迄今主要由政治学家进行研究，以分析其在民主德国政治制度中的作用。然而，该项目有一种不同的方法，即复杂的文化史方法：它试图从议员本身的角度审视1989/90年东德议会的政治过渡。通过考察他们在1990年10月至1990年10月之间决定性的几个月中的自我认知、行为和工作作风，我们旨在洞察民主德国最后一届议会的自我形象和政治文化。自我议会化和随后的人民*S会议厅的解散是几乎没有议会经验的议员的任务。我们怀疑，这些议员发展了一种特定的政治实践，这是两种不同榜样结合在一起的结果：理想的议会和像德国联邦议院这样的西式议会的现实。除了档案材料和对选定的前Volkskammer议员的一些采访外，这项研究的主要来源是电视上对议会会议的全面现场报道。我们希望所有这些消息来源都能提供信息，说明议员们在沉重的时间压力和西德顾问的干预下是如何行事的，以及从受控的社会主义代议制机构向民主选举产生的议会的转变过程是如何在精神上和实践上处理的。这些结果将与一个捷克研究小组的结果进行比较，该研究小组研究了1989-1992年捷克斯洛伐克联邦议会的过渡进程。

The People*s Chamber of the GDR (Volkskammer) has been researched to date mainly by political scientists in order to analyse its role within the political system of the GDR. This project however has a different namely a complex cultural historical approach: It tries to examine the political transition of the East German parliament in the years 1989/90 out of the perspective of parliamentarians themselves. By examining their self-perception, behaviour and working style during the decisive months between October 1989 and October 1990 we aim to gain an insight into the self-image and political culture of the last parliament of the GDR. The self-parliamentarization and afterwards the dissolution of the People*s Chamber was the task of MPs that had almost no parliamentary experience. We suspect that these MPs developed a specific political practice that resulted from a combination of two different role models: an ideal parliament and the reality of a western-style parliament like the German Bundestag. Besides archival material and a number of interviews with selected former Volkskammer MPs the main source for the study is the comprehensive live coverage of the parliamentary sittings on television. We hope that all these sources give information about how the MPs acted under the condition of heavy time pressure and interventions of West German advisers and how the transformational process from a controlled socialist representative body to a democratically elected parliament was dealt with mentally and practically. The results will be compared with those of a Czech research group that examines the transitional process of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia 1989-1992.