Voluntariness and international Solidarity in the GDR and in the post-socialist Transformation (1970 – 2000)

子项目考察了前德意志民主共和国和随后的后社会主义转型社会的自愿性。它以国际参与为例，探讨了在国家社会主义制度中自愿参与的呼吁和运动。子项目强调，在社会主义专政中呼吁“国际团结”不应被片面地理解为宣传。因此，子项目分析了国家呼吁团结与个人志愿服务动机之间的关系。它还揭示了政府呼吁在多大程度上影响了80年代末90年代初的政治和社会动荡进程。在其分析中，子项目进一步关注德意志民主共和国的移民，他们是国家呼吁自愿的对象，也是转型社会中的政治活跃主体。一方面，国家控制的话语呼吁国际参与和团结与全球南方进行审查。另一方面，子项目使用行为学方法来分析参与的呼吁如何在日常生活中产生共鸣。为了做到这一点，它进行了各种历史的深入挖掘，以说明捐赠和援助运动的组织，并重建他们的故意拨款。该分项目在政府（这里主要是面向国际的群众组织）和非政府来源的基础上，审查自愿性作为一种社会实践的产生。广泛的资源库允许一个多角度的当代历史，不仅包括书面记录。在各种档案材料中，团结委员会和国际友谊联盟的文件具有中心重要性。然而，旨在鼓励团结做法的媒体表现（例如在电影、海报和日常物品上）也包括在分析中。档案资料由传记采访补充。这个子项目对研究单位来说意义重大。首先，它探讨了独裁统治下的自愿性，并扩大了对非自由社会的研究重点。其次，分析了政治转型时期自愿参与的连续性和断裂性。第三，它关注来自全球南方的移民，在其分析中包括来自殖民国家的转移过程，并借鉴了后殖民方法的见解。

The sub-project examines voluntariness in the former GDR and the subsequent post-socialist transformation society. It explores appeals and campaigns for voluntary participation in a state socialist system using the example of international engagement. The sub-project emphasizes that the call for "international solidarity" in the socialist dictatorship should not be understood unilaterally as propaganda. Therefore, the sub-project analyzes the relationship between state appeals for solidarity and individual motives for volunteering. It also sheds a light on to which extent the government appeals affected the process of political and social upheaval in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In its analysis the sub-project furthermore focuses on migrants in the GDR as addressees of state appeals for voluntariness and as politically active subjects in the society in transition. On the one hand, the state-controlled discourse calling for international engagement and solidarity with the Global South is examined. On the other hand, the sub-project uses praxeological approaches to analyze how the calls for engagement resonated in everyday life. To do this, it undertakes various historical deep drillings in order to illustrate the organization of donations and aid campaigns and to reconstruct their willful appropriation. The sub-project examines the production of voluntariness as a social practice on the basis of governmental (here primarily those of internationally oriented mass organizations) and non-governmental sources. The wide source repository allows for a multi-perspective contemporary history and includes not only written records. Within the diverse archival material the documents of the Solidarity Committee and the League of Friendship of Nations are of central importance. However, media representations of the Global South (e.g. in films, on posters and everyday objects), which were meant to encourage solidarity practices, are also included in the analysis. The archival holdings are supplemented by biographical interviews. The sub-project is of utmost significance for the research unit. First, it explores voluntariness in a dictatorship and expands the research focus on illiberal societies. Second, it analyzes continuities and ruptures of voluntary engagement in political transformation periods. Third, it focuses on migrants from the Global South, includes transfer processes from colonized states in its analyses and draws on insights from postcolonial approaches.