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Alma Mater – Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Kulturforschungen 2025, Bd. 2(2) 296-304
Ideological Prolongation of Space in Good Bye Lenin!
S. 296 - 304 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.29329/almamater.2025.1349.2
Veröffentlichungsdatum: September 07, 2025 | Einzeln/Gesamtansichten: 0/0 | Einzeln/Gesamtdownloads: 0/0
Zusammenfassung
Wolfgang Becker’s film Goodbye Lenin (2003) is set at the centre of big changes after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. At the fulcrum there is an East Berlin mother Christiane, a devout communist, who has a heart attack just before the big changes take place in East Germany. She remains in a coma for eight months. When she wakes up, doctors warn that she needs to have a peaceful life, and she should not get excited about anything, otherwise she would have another heart attack. Then, her children pretend that the GDR still exists, the wall has never come down in order to protect their mother from any kinds of excitement. they restore an isolated inner space, in order not only to maintain the socialist past within the present, but also to lengthen their mother’s life. The shift is not only in ideological space, but also in private and public spaces. This paper analyses Goodbye Lenin in terms of private and public space, and argue how individualised body space empowers both ideology and personal life to prolong ideology.
Schlüsselwörter: Good Bye Lenin, ideology, space, socialism, capitalism
APA 7. Auflage
University), M.A.C.(., & University), A.B.K.(.1.M. (2025). Ideological Prolongation of Space in Good Bye Lenin!. Alma Mater – Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Kulturforschungen, 2(2), 296-304. https://doi.org/10.29329/almamater.2025.1349.2
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University), M. and University), A. (2025). Ideological Prolongation of Space in Good Bye Lenin!. Alma Mater – Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Kulturforschungen, 2(2), pp. 296-304.
Chicago 16. Auflage
University), Mehmet Ali Celikel (Marmara and Azer Banu Kemaloglu (Canakkale 18 Mart University) (2025). "Ideological Prolongation of Space in Good Bye Lenin!". Alma Mater – Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Kulturforschungen 2 (2):296-304. https://doi.org/10.29329/almamater.2025.1349.2
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