Curating Tempelhof: negotiating the multiple histories of Berlin's ‘symbol of freedom’

作者: CLARE COPLEY

DOI: 10.1017/S0963926816000869

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摘要: Despite its National Socialist origins, the post-war use of Berlin's Tempelhof Airport has seen it recast as a ‘symbol freedom’. Since airport's 2008 closure, site been caught between calls for increased engagement with under Third Reich and economic incentives to repackage an attractive events location. Through analysing different strategies through which Tempelhof's past is negotiated, this article will highlight contested nature relationship complex interaction memory politics more pragmatic issues.