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

转型中议会的专业化：德意志民主共和国第十届人民院（1989 年 10 月至 1990 年 10 月）。

• 批准号: 188958620
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Andreas Wirsching
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Zeitgeschichte (IfZ)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-31 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/188958620?language=en
• 关键词: Professionalization; Parliament; Transition; 10th; People

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.

迄今为止，政治科学家主要研究了GDR（Volkskammer）的人民室（Volkskammer），以分析其在GDR的政治体系中的作用。然而，该项目具有不同的文化历史方法：它试图在1989/90年间审查东德议会的政治过渡，从议员本身的角度来看。通过研究1989年10月至1990年10月的决定性月份，我们旨在深入了解GDR上一次议会的自我形象和政治文化。自我参数化和之后，人民室的解散是国会议员的任务，几乎没有议会经验。我们怀疑这些国会议员开发了一种特定的政治实践，这是由于两个不同的榜样的结合而产生的：理想的议会和西方风格的议会等德国联邦政府的现实。除了档案材料以及对选定的前Volkskammer MPS的访谈之外，该研究的主要来源是对电视上议会席位的全面现场报道。我们希望所有这些来源都能提供有关国会议员在大量时间压力和西德顾问干预条件下如何行动的信息，以及如何从受控社会主义代表机构到民主选举的议会的转型过程在精神上且实践上处理。结果将与捷克研究小组的结果进行比较，该研究小组研究了捷克斯洛伐克联邦大会1989-1992的过渡过程。