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Professor Anna Saunders

Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures / Head of Department Languages, Cultures and Film

    Research

    Memorialisation

    Monuments and memorials in Berlin and eastern Germany; socialist realist sculpture; memory and the built environment; monuments and activism.

    East German Studies

    Social, cultural and political history of the GDR, with particular emphasis on youth culture and education; East Germany and its transformation since unification; development of East German identities; Ostalgie; memory of the GDR in film, literature and museums.