Open AccessWalled In Literature: An Architectural Inquiry
Author(s) -
Nikolaus Wegmann
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
konturen
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1947-3796
DOI - 10.5399/uo/konturen.4.0.3186
Subject(s) - gestalt psychology , focus (optics) , german , function (biology) , object (grammar) , epistemology , simple (philosophy) , berlin wall , history , sociology , aesthetics , computer science , art , philosophy , political science , artificial intelligence , physics , archaeology , fall of man , law , evolutionary biology , biology , politics , optics , perception
The Berlin Wall is – in spite of its obvious function and its supposedly simple form (Gestalt) – an object that must be read carefully. Countless attempts have been made to analyze the significance of the Berlin Wall. The present analysis does not make use of statistics, mass media representations, or historical moralities in its attempt to arrive at a new understanding of the Wall. Instead, the focus is on the Wall as a complex architectural form and its function for a second German national literature after 1961.