기억의 정치와스토리텔링 통일독일 수도 베를린의 발명 -도시공간의 형성과 기억의 도구화에 관하여- = Inventing the Capital of the reunified Germany, Berlin -The formation of urban space and the instrumentalization of memory-

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Inventing the Capital of the reunified Germany, Berlin -The formation of urban space and the instrumentalization of memory- Chun, Jin-sung [Abstract] A Space is to be invented by the process of differentiating itself from other spaces. Berlin, the Capital of the reunified Germany, is the arena of contesting identities, while the new Berlin`s city planners have appealed to alleged lost tradition. What distinguishes Berlin from other western metropolises is her extreme imbalance between remembering and forgetting, so that Berlin never comes to a collective memory in accord and only turns out to be lieux de memoire, the artificially created sites of memory. Although the so-called Berlin Republic has staked much of her administration on a policy of national unity, her most representative lieux de memoire such as Potsdamer Platz, the upcoming Berlin City Palace, and Reichstag cannot hide the unmasterable disparity between outward self-display and conflict at home, between selective memory and traumatic disturbances. This issue is getting more acute in the Holocaust memorial sites which have much more flourished since the reunification. Whereas the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the heart of Berlin is facing the dangers of using German people`s mourning for the victims for claiming their own moral superiority, the Topography of Terror has the merit of galvanizing the campaign against forgetting historical responsibility of the so-called perpetrator nation. So the case of Berlin helps to understand that modern city holds diverse identities, and therefore that the domination of a particular memory is always accompanied by the repression of other memories.