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Sie lebt für ihre Arbeit. Die schöne Arbeit. Gehen sie an die Arbeit. Die Inszenierung von Arbeit und Geschlecht in Dramatik und Spielfilm der DDR

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The citation of Volker Braun that gives this publication its title can be read as the poetic quintessence of a multilayer understanding of work in the GDR. It transports an identificatory relationship to work, the utopian designation of work as not alienated, creative and aesthetic activity as well as the disciplinary role of work that is enforced within the state apparatus. In the dissertation at hand, the performances of work and gender in the artistic discourses of drama and film of the GDR between 1961 and 1990 are analysed. The theatre texts and films are examined with regard to their construction of work, the gender specific connotations contained therein and the associated artistic staging strategies. The metaphysical designations of and assignations to work are conceived of, from a poststructural perspective, as historic constructs that require specific moral concepts and cultural ideals to unfold themselves, and at the same time incessantly produce and reinforce these notions. In an outlook on the artistic works of eastern German dramatists and filmmakers after 1990, the ruptures and continuities in the performance of work and gender after the end of the GDR are brought into focus. The dissertation is the outcome of a collaboration. Peggy Mädler undertook the analysis of the theatre texts and Bianca Schemel conducted the examination of the feature films.

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Mädler, Peggy; Schemel, Bianca: Sie lebt für ihre Arbeit. Die schöne Arbeit. Gehen sie an die Arbeit. Die Inszenierung von Arbeit und Geschlecht in Dramatik und Spielfilm der DDR. Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2009.10.18452/16290
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