This thesis deals with the perception of the Cold War in selected German feature films. Sonnenallee (Leander Haussmann, 1999), Die Unberührbare (Oscar Roehler, 2000), Good Bye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker, 2003), Herr Lehmann (Leander Haussmann, 2003) and Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006) have been selected for a comparative analysis that focusses on narratives of the Cold-War era after reunification, and for an examination of how the social impact of German unification has been addressed in these films. In terms of methodology, the thesis uses Pierre Sorlin's social history of cinema and Pierre Nora's concept of lieu de mémoire to describe the social imagination and nostalgic representation of memories. There is a research gap in previous studies concerning how the Cold War has become a topic in recent German feature film production, and this study aims to complement those earlier works.

Cette thèse propose un regard transitif sur l'art contemporain en RDA des années 1970 et 1980 et dans les nouveaux Länder en s'appuyant sur l'exemple de deux artistes, Lutz Dammbeck et Karla Sachse. Leurs productions artistiques réalisées avant et après la chute du mur de Berlin, reflètent le processus de construction identitaire en RDA et questionnent également la construction de la mémoire collective allemande. Le premier chapitre propose un aperçu des éléments d'histoire qui ont contribué à cette construction identitaire est-allemande qui touchait toute la société. Les artistes présenté-e-s dans le deuxième et troisième chapitre de cette thèse sont exemplaires pour un grand nombre d'artistes pouravoir refusé la doctrine du réalisme socialiste et n’avoir pas attendu la fin de la RDA pour créer des oeuvres pertinentes et subversives. Les années 1989 et 1990, l'année de la chute du mur et l'année de la réunification allemande, représentent bien un tournant géo-politique important, mais ne signifient pas réellement une rupture pour les artistes issu-e-s des scènes alternatives est-allemandes, comme c’est le cas pour Lutz Dammbeck et Karla Sachse / This thesis proposes a transitive view on contemporary art in the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s and in the new Länder based on the example of two artists, and Lutz Dammbeck and Karla Sachse. Their artistic productions performed before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, reflect the process of identity construction in the GDR and also question the construction of Germany's collective memory. The first chapter provides an overview of the history that contributed to the construction of identity affecting the whole German society. The artists presented in the second and third chapter of this thesis are exemplary for many artists who refused the doctrine of socialist realism and did not wait for the end of the GDR tocreate important and subversive works. The years 1989 and 1990, the year the Berlin Wall fell and the year of German reunification, represent an important geo-political turn, but mean not really an aesthetic rupture for artists from east German alternative scenes as it is the case for Lutz Dammbeck and Karla Sachse

Thesis called "The Berlin Wall" focuses on the period mapping of the construction, existence and fall of the Berlin Wall. This work contains previous events before the Wall construction began, its consequences for Berlin residents, and also the backgroud of the fall of the Wall and its aftermath. One of the objectives of this work is also processing of the questionnaire survey aimed at individually selected respondents regarding their knowledge and awareness of the given period and the Berlin Wall.

The diploma thesis deals with the depiction of West Berlin in the 1980s in a novel by Sven Regener Herr Lehmann written in 2001, which was published in Czech under the title Ještě jedno, pane Lehmanne. The aim of the thesis is to capture the everyday life and atmosphere of the Kreuzberg district of Berlin just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Kreuzberg district has been still the center of an alternative cultural scene. In the shadow of the Berlin Wall, this district is famous for its boisterous nightlife, dense network of nightclubs and openness to the world. The thesis follows in the footsteps of the main character Frank Lehmann, called Mr. Lehmann by his friends, because in the novel, he will soon celebrate his thirtieth birthday. In the theoretical part, the thesis firstly deals with "literary space" as an important phenomenon of literary science. This theoretical part is followed by the presentation of the novel itself and its placement in the historical-literary context. The analysis of the novel itself gradually presents the time and scene of the story, the atmosphere of Kreuzberg in the 1980s, the characteristics of the characters and finally the displaying of political events. In its conclusion, the thesis also propose a comparison of the novel with the film adaptation of 2003.

The content of this thesis are relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR at the end of the Cold War, specifically in the seven-year period between the beginning of the government of Helmut Kohl and the fall of the Berlin Wall. These relations are described in a wider dimension within a square made of Bonn - Berlin - Prague - Moscow; the basic intention of the work is to create a comprehensive analysis of all important links and transformations not only between the East and West Germany, but also among all actors in defined tetragon. Thesis-conclusions are to a large extent based on the long-term research in Czech and German archives; key documents were found in the archive of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the archive of the former State Security of the GDR. The term inter-German relations is reduced to the area of Deutschlandpolitik - negotiations at the highest level - and given the large scope of reciprocal contacts, they are limited also thematically, while two dimensions are primarily monitored - so called priority axis. The first is the field of economy. Its key importance is framed by two billion-loans granted with a guarantee of the Federal Government of the GDR at the beginning of analysed period, and a total paradigm shift in relations among Bonn - Berlin...