Neubau Atmospheres: East German Cultural Remediations of Modernist Architecture

An incisive analysis of East German cinematic, literary, and architectural case studies from the 1960s to the 1980s, Neubau Atmospheres examines the creative role the urban, built environment played in mediating the emotional and social experience of its residents, highlighting how this engagement constituted a cultural genre in its own right.

Stephan Ehrig is a Lecturer in German at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. His research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to East German cultural production pre- and post-1990, as well as on nineteenth to twenty-first-century literature, theatre and film. He is the author of Der dialektische Kleist (Transcript, 2018) and the co-editor (with Marcel Thomas and David Zell) of The GDR Today: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to East German History, Memory and Culture (Peter Lang, 2018), and (with Benjamin Schaper and Elizabeth Ward) of Entertaining German Culture: Contemporary Transnational Television and Film (Berghahn Books, 2023).