New volume deals with the balance and perspectives of transformation and unification.
To coincide with the 31st anniversary of German reunification, Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen, Dr. Judith C. Enders and Dr. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk have published a comprehensive volume entitled "Germany is one: Many things - Review and perspectives on transformation and reunification" with Campus Verlag.
2019 and 2020 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution and German reunification. What has happened in East Germany since 1990 as part of the transformation and unification process? What impact do the upheavals still have today? How united is German society today and what prospects for the future are emerging? The studies collected in this volume bring together the results of transformation research from the past decades. They analyze the causes, phases and effects of the post-communist system change, shed light on its political, economic, social and psychological dimensions and integrate them into a long-term history of everyday life and society. Forewords by Matthias Platzeck and Marco Wanderwitz introduce the topic.
The volume is the result of the editors' involvement in the Federal Government's Commission on 30 Years of Peaceful Revolution and German Unification (2019 - 2020 ).
The commission, chaired by the former Minister President of Brandenburg, Matthias Platzeck, and the Federal Government Commissioner for the New Federal States, Marco Wanderwitz, dealt intensively with the history and future of the East German transformation and German unification in the European context . The academic members of the commission (including Dr. Enders, Dr. Kowalczuk and Prof. Kollmorgen) presented their own analyses and supervised the preparation of short studies that were included in this volume. The commission concluded its work at the end of 2020 with a publicly accessible final report. This contains a series of proposals for further scientific and political-practical work on the problems and organization of unification.
Following this commission, the German government set up a working group, in which Professor Kollmorgen was involved as an academic member. This group dealt with one of the central ideas in the final report: the creation of a "Future Center for German Unity and European Transformation" in the new federal states. The report was published in June 2021. The center is intended to make processes of upheaval visible and tangible. The institution is intended to unite aspects of science and culture and dialog with citizens under one roof.
Judith C. Enders (ed.), Raj Kollmorgen (ed.), Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (ed.):
Germany is one: many
Balance sheet and perspectives of transformation and unification
Hardcover bound, 2021, 550 pages
Campus Verlag, ISBN 978-3-593-51436-9
The publication is published as Open Access by Campus and can be accessed via the following link
