International Study Trip: Berlin and Central Germany: 15 May - 1 June, 2003
Egypt 2000 | England
2001 | Cuba 2002
Course Professors
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Richard Laub
Director, Heritage Preservation Program
Department of History
Georgia State University
38 Peachtree Center Avenue
Atlanta GA 30303
Office: 404/463-9206
Fax: 404/651-1745
mailto:hisrel@langate.gsu.edu
| Dr. Joe Perry
Assistant Professor
Modern European/German History
Department of History
Georgia State University
38 Peachtree Center Avenue
Atlanta GA 30303
Office: 404/463-9215
Fax: 404/651-1745
hisjpp@langate.gsu.edu |
Course Description
The GSU Historic Preservation Study Abroad Program is designed for Master's Degree students and Atlanta area professional preservationists who are interested in adding an international dimension to their knowledge of preservation. In the past, the program has travelled to London, Havana, Cairo, and Berlin (in 1997). We look forward to returning to Berlin in 2003, and adding a visit to East-Central Germany. After an introductory meeting in Atlanta, participants will spend two weeks in Berlin, from Thursday May 15th to Sunday 1 June.
The main goal of the course this year is to allow participants to see how
the German past is being preserved and interpreted to the public. The course
has several other central goals, including:
- to offer participants the chance to visit a variety of historic sites,
from a variety of time periods, operated by a variety of preservation
organizations;
- to offer participants a knowlegde of aspects of historic preservation
unique to the Federal Republic of Germany and their relation to the politics
of memory;
- to give participants the chance to assess past and current development
programs that influence the survival and public presentation of earlier
architectural and planning acheivements;
- to offer participants the opportunity to meet with professionals in
the field of historic preservation in the public, private, and non-profit
sectors in contemporary Germany.
The Federal Republic of Germany offers a unique environment for the study of historic preservation. The country has a strong tradition of public and private committment to preservation and has a lengthy and sometimes difficult history to preserve. The focus of our trip ranges broadly. Students will visit a variety of sites and meet with professionals concerned with medieval, early modern, classical era, high modern, National Socialist, post-World War II (East and West Germany), and contemporary issues. For more information contact one of the course professors.
Requirements and Assignments
The major requirements will involve writing a daily journal and two 10-15
page research papers. One paper will compare aspects of historic preservation
at different sites in Germany; the other will explore political geography,
or the links between political issues and the German human and natural landscape.
Laub will evaluate the HP paper; Perry will evaluate the political geography
paper; we will both look at the journals.
It is strongly recommended that you choose the sites you will examine in
both papers before the trip begins, so you can pay especially close attention
to those sites; the list of web sites at the end of the syllabus may help.
Please consult with Laud and/or Perry at any time about your written assignments.
Required course texts should provide background secondary information and
are balanced betwen the two paper themes; however, you may want to consider
other secondary works you may find on your chosen sites. Your papers should
include an evaluation, where appropriate, of site visits, meetings with
professionals and guides, and site websites, so take notes and collect subsidiary
literature (handouts, brochures, guidebooks, other publications) during
our visits.
Daily Journal
Keep a day-to-day record of your impressions
of course content and site visits; this can be used as the foundation
of your other papers. Due MONDAY 23 JUNE.
HP Paper
Compare/constrast 3-5 sites managed by different owners, including the
Federal Republic (national), Thuringia or Berlin/Brandenburg (state),
and the city level. You should also note differences between private,
non-profit, and public ownership and mixed public-private ownership.
Your paper should explore the way these various institutional structures
determine the effectiveness of preservation attempts, the way the sites
are presented to the public, and the methods used for preservation: including
standards, funding, and oversight. You may also examine the way the site
is portrayed in the mass media and/or in public relations materials publisehd
by the site managers themselves. Due MONDAY 14 JULY.
Political Geography Paper
Explore the way the politics of preservation at a site or several sites
(mis)represents Germany history. The paper should focus on the way the
meanings promoted in your chosen sites are developed, projected, contested,
and received by various interest groups. Due MONDAY 28 JULY.
Required (and Suggested) Texts and Course Materials
- Brian Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (1997).
- Michael Wise, Capital Dilemma: Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998).
- Alexandria Richie, Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin (1998/or another general Berlin text).
- Peter Fritzsche and Karen Hewitt, Berlin Walks (New York: Holt, out of print)
- Iain Boyd White, "Berlin 1870-1945--An Introduction Framed by Architecture," in The Divided Heritage: Themes and Problems in German Modernism, ed. Irit Rogoff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 223-252.
- Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, "Town Planning and Architecture in Berlin 1945-1985," in The Divided Heritage: Themes and Problems in German Modernism, ed. Irit Rogoff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 291-308.
- Erica Carter, "Case Study 1: Berlin and the Cold War Division of Public Space," in How German is She? Postwar West German Reconstruction and the Consuming Women (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, XXXX), 116-144.
- Jeffry M. Diefendorf, In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II (New York : Oxford University Press, 1993). Selections TBA.
- Jeffry M. Diefendorf, ed., Rebuilding Europe's Bombed Cities (New York : St. Martin's Press, 1990). Selections TBA.
Hotel Contact Information
WEIMAR (16-21 May)
Hotel Anna Amalia
Geleitstrasse 8-12
99423 Weimar
Germany
Tel: 011/49/3643/49560
FAX: 011/49/3643/495699
www.hotel-anna-amalia.de
| BERLIN (21 May-1 June)
Boarding House Mitte
Mulackstrasse 1-2
10119 Berlin-Mitte
Germany
Tel: 011/49/30/28 388 488
FAX: 011/49/30/28 388 489
www.boarding-house-mitte.de
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Course Fees
Total Fees: $2700.00
- Initial Deposit (non-refundable): $300.00/due 15 January 2003.
- Second Deposit: $1200.00/due 17 February 2003.
- Balance: $1200.00/due 17 March 2003.
Fees include airfare, all ground transportation, accomodations, site entrance tickets, daily continental breakfast, and several group dinners.
Course Schedule
- Saturday 5 April: Orientation, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Introduction to the Course.
- Assigments/Requirements.
- Review of Schedule.
- What to expect from Germany.
- What to bring to Germany.
- Thursday 15 May: Depart Atlanta (apprx. 7:00 p.m.)
- Friday 16 May: Welcome to Germany!
- Arrive Frankfurt (apprx 7:00 a.m.).
- Train to Weimar (arrives apprx. 12:00 p.m.).
- 1:00-4:00: Orientation: Walking tour of the inner city with Sophie
Ritz and Annette Krug, Interns, Thuringisches Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege.
- 5:30- ?: Group Dinner.
- Saturday 17 May: Excursion to Thuringen Villages/Wartburg Castle
- 8:00-9:00: Breakfast.
- 9:00-2:00: Guided tour of area villages including Wolkenrode with
representatives of the Thuringisches Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege.
- 2:00-5:00: Guided Tour of Wartburg "Luther" Castle.
- Sunday 18 May: Weimar and National Socialism: Nazi City Planning and
Buchenwald
- 7:00-8:00: Breakfast.
- 8:00-9:30: Nazi Architecture in Weimar.
- 10:00-1:00 Self-Guided Tour of Buchenwald Concentration Camp
- 1:00-2:00: Brown Bag Discussion of National Socialism and Genocide,
in Buchenwald Meeting Room, with Dr. Joe Perry, Department of History,
GSU.
- 3:00-5:00: Self-Guided Tour of Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
- 5:30: Return to Weimar on your own.
- Monday 19 May: Excursion to Erfurt
- 7:30-8:30: Breakfast
- 8:30 sharp: Train to Erfurt.
- 9:30-10:30: Meeting with Sibylle Putzke, Public Relations Specialist
for the Thuringisches Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege.
- 10:30-12:30: Walking tour of Medieval Erfurt with Dr. Christian Misch,
researcher with the Thuringisches Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege; includes
lunch.
- 1:00-3:00: Tour of the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences Department
of Architectural Conservation and Restoration with Professor Christoph
Merzenich.
- 3:30-5:30: Tour of Erfurt Cathedral with Herr Wolfgang Lukassek (Architect)
and Herr Gold (Director of Cathedral Project), of the Erfurt Dombauamt;
includes tour of restoration workshop.
- Tuesday 20 May: Kulturstadt Weimar
- 7:30-8:30: Breakfast.
- 8:30-10:30: Guided Tour of Goethehaus and Museum.
- 10:30-12:30: Park Landscapes with Dr. Martin Baumann, Landscape Architect,
Thuringisches Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege.
- 12:30-1:30: Lunch.
- 1:30-3:30: Guided Tour of Bauhaus University with Dr. Kerstin Vogel,
Professor of Architectural Drawing and Preservation, Bauhaus University;
includes presentation of Student Projects, Department of Design, Bauhaus
University.
- 3:30-5:00: Bauhaus Museum.
- Wednesday 21 May: Weimar to Berlin
- 1:00 sharp: Train to Berlin.
- Arrive Berlin approx. 3:30.
- 4:00-6:00: Orientation/Historic Hackischer Markt: Our Berlin Neighborhood,
with Dr. Joe Perry, Department of History, GSU.
- Thursday 22 May: Berlin/The Layers of the Historic City Center
- 8:30-1:30: Walking Tour: Unter den Linden to Alexander Platz. Potential
attractions include the Brandenburg Gate, Adlon Hotel, Wilhelmstrasse
and the Old Government Quarter, Friedrichstrasse, Checkpoint Charlie,
National Library, Humboldt University, Pariser Platz, Deutsche Dom (with
museum exhibition "Questions of German History"), Altes Museum, Neue
Wache, Berliner Dom, Book Burning Memorial, Palace of the Republic,
Marian Kirche, and Alexander Platz, with Dr. Joe Perry, Department of
History, GSU
- 1:30-2:00: Subway to Berlin History Museum.
- 2:00-5:00: Guided Tour of Berlin History Museum with Dr. Sven Kuron,
former Assistant Curator, Berlin History Museum.
- Friday 23 May: The State Office of Historic Preservation/Various Projects
- 9:00-10:00: Presentation on Public/State Preservation with Dr. Christine
Wolf, Landesdenkmalamt Berlin.
- 10:30-1:00: Guided Tour of Neues Museum Reconstruction Project with
Herr W. Henze, Bundesamt fur Bauwesen und Ramordnung/Museum Island Project
Manager
- 2:00-4:00: Guided Tour of the Current Finance Ministry Building, former
National Socialist Air Ministry Building with Herr Martin Jœger, Bundesministerium
fur Finanzen, Public Relations Officer (Referat fur Burgerangelegenheiten).
Landesdenkmalamt Berlin.
- Saturday 24 May: Free Day
- Sunday 25 May: Free Day
- Monday 26 May: Industrial Archaeology and Neighborhood Revitalization
(part I)
- 9:00-11:30: Guided tour of Oberschoneweide, late 19th-century industrial
park, with Dr. Nikolaus Bernau.
- 12:00-2:00: Treptower Park (includes lunch, the Soviet War Memorial).
- 2:00-2:30: S-Bahn to Schonhauser Allee .
- 2:30-6:00: Presentation on Neighborhood Revitalization/Tour of Prenzlauerberg
History Project with Sabine Schilf of S.T.E.R.N. (grass roots preservation
group).
- Tuesday 27 May: Fontline Berlin/Building National Identity During
the Cold War/ Neighborhood Revitalization (part II)
- 9:00-11:00: Guided Tour of Capitalist West Berlin: the Hansaviertel,
Tiergarten, Kufurstendam, the Europa Center, with Professor Joe Perry,
GSU.
- 11-12:30: S-Bahn to Alexander Platz; Lunch.
- 12:30-2:30: Guided Tour of Socialist East Berlin: Alexanderplatz and
Stalinallee, with Dr. Peter Muller.
- 2:30-3:00: Subway to Schonhauser Allee.
- 3:00-6:00: Presentation on Neighborhood Revitalization/Tour of the
Kulturbrauerei (Culture-Brewery) and the Altwasserturm (Old Water Tower)
in Prenzlauerberg, with Frau Sigrid Asseng, Project Leader, Amt fur
Bauaufsicht und Denkmalschutz, Bezirksamt Pankow/Berlin.
- 6:30- ?: A Night at the Prater Beer Garden: Optional
- Wednesday 28 May: Jewish Berlin/Preservation and Commemoration
- 8:00-10:00: Walking Tour of the Old Jewish Quarter and the Old Jewish
Cemetery, with Dr. Joe Perry, Department of History, GSU.
- 10:00-10:30: Subway to Berlin Jewish Museum.
- 10:30-1:00: Presentation by Ken Gorby, former Project Director, Berlin
Jewish Museum (or his colleague); self-guided tour of museum.
- 1:00-1:30: Lunch in museum.
- 1:30-2:00: Subway to Anhalter Bahnhof/Deutsches Haus.
- 2:00-4:00: Meeting with Dr. Gunter Schlusche, Project Coordinator
for the Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe; tour of monument site.
- Thursday 29 May: Topography of Terror/the Museum Island
- Note: 29 May is a National Holiday/Christi Himmelfahrt (Ascension
Day)
- 9:00-11:00: Conflicted Sites of Memory: The Topography of Terror.
- 11:00-1:00: Museum: Gropius Bau (includes lunch).
- Friday 30 May: Excursion/Potsdam: the Playground of the Prince
- 8:30-10:00: Train/Bus to Potsdam/Sans Souci.
- 10:00-5:00: Self-Guided Tour of Sans Souci: Baroque Palace of Frederich
the Great, includes lunch on own.
- 5:30: Optional Dinner in Merchant's Quarter of Old Potsdam/meet at
bus stop.
- Return to Berlin on own.
- Saturday 31 May: Berlin/Capital City of a (Re)United Germany
- 6:00- ?: Aufwiedersehen: Group Dinner
- Sunday 1 June: Depart Berlin (apprx. 6:00 a.m.)/arrive Atlanta (apprx.
2:00 p.m.)
Relevant Websites for Sites and Information
