Broken Balance: A Political–Cultural History of Germany since the 1980s

In this lecture, Christina Morina discusses the political culture of the ‘Berlin Republic’, which has its roots as much in the era of German division as in the transformative years around 1989. Yet it is much more than a story of the convergence of triumphant (West German) democracy and failed (East German) dictatorship. Her project explores the ways in which ordinary citizens in East and West understood themselves as citizens, ‘their’ state, and the meaning and purpose of (democratic) politics.