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

迄今为止，主要由政治学家对德意志民主共和国人民议会（Volkskammer）进行研究，以分析其在德意志民主共和国政治体系中的作用。然而，这个项目有一个不同的，即复杂的文化历史方法：它试图从议员自己的角度审视1989/90年东德议会的政治过渡。在1989年10月至1990年10月这几个决定性的月份里，通过检查他们的自我认知、行为和工作方式，我们的目标是深入了解德意志民主共和国最后一届议会的自我形象和政治文化。自我议会化和随后解散人民议院是那些几乎没有议会经验的议员们的任务。我们怀疑，这些议员形成了一种特定的政治实践，这种实践是由两种不同的榜样结合而成的：一种是理想的议会，另一种是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人民议会议员的一些采访外，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有关议员们在沉重的时间压力和西德顾问的干预下如何行动的信息，以及如何在精神上和实际中处理从一个受控制的社会主义代表机构向民主选举议会的转变过程。这些结果将与捷克一个研究小组审查1989-1992年捷克斯洛伐克联邦议会过渡进程的结果进行比较。

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.