The People's Own Landscape: Nature, Tourism, and Dictatorship in East Germany

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215 Index 1953 uprising, 49 Adenauer, Konrad, 13, 16 administrative districts (Bezirke), 25 Africa, 12 agriculture, 1–2, 13–14, 26–27, 56–58, 60–62, 92, 111, 113, 116, 118–19, 123–24, 160–62, 164 collectivization, 13–14, 26–27 environmental decline, 26 Greifenbach Reservoir, 92 industrial methods, 1–2, 13, 50, 56–58, 60–62, 111, 113, 116, 118–19, 123–24, 160–62, 164 Karl Marx, 14 Alpine Society, 27, 31, 40 Anthropocentrism, 3, 108–9, 183 Antifascism conservation, 16 DWBV, 36 orienteering, 36 Arche Nova (journal), 171, 173 Archive of GDR Opposition at the Robert Havemann Society, 170 athletic competition 27–42 DWBV, 35, 123 limitless growth, 38, 41–42 limits of dictatorship, 38 material abundance, 38 political control, 34–35 popular desires, 34 resistance, 39, 94 See also German Association for Hiking and Mountain Climbing; German Gymnastics and Sports League; sport; tourism autarky, 13 Autobahn, 55, 89 automobile, 85–86, 88–89, 95, 171–72 camping, 85–86, 88–89 Greifenbach Reservoir, 95 Nazism, 89 new environmentalists, 171–72 social class, 85–86 Bagger, Wolfgang, 123 Bahro, Rudolf, 157 Bauakademie, 56, 60, 63, 64, 142 Bausoldaten. See construction soldiers Beleites, Annette, 167–70 Bender, Barbara, 2 Berlin Wall, 109 Bess, Michael, 7 Betriebsportgemeinschaft. See Enterprise Sports Club Betts, Paul, 1, 6, 147 Bezirke. See administrative districts Biosphere Conference (1968), 108 Bismarck, Otto von, 14 Bitterfeld, 169 Blackbourn, David, 8, 15, 50, 52 blooming landscapes, 184 bodily experience countryside, 26 hiking, 27 mass forest run, 37 orienteering, 37 Boone and Crockett Club, 114–15 Bosch, Carl, 12 Bren, Paulina, 9, 97, 135 Briefe zur Orientierung im Konflikt Mensch Natur (journal), 168 BSG (Betriebsportgemeinschaft). See Enterprise Sports Clubs BSG Empor Löbtau, 39–41, 66, 68, 89 216 Index BSG Empor Löbtau (continued) Friends of Nature, 40–41 mountain climbing, 40 repression by DWBV, 40 resistance, 42 socialist modernism, 40 Buchenwald, 36 Buetow, Martin, 80 Buggel, Edelfried, 36, 122–23 bungalows, 9, 83, 90, 94, 97, 135–51 campgrounds, 94 church environmentalism, 171–72 class structure, 144–48 conservation bloc, 142 environmental activists, 171–72 Feriendienst, 142 fines, 144 Greifenbach Reservoir, 140–48 landscape architects, 142 Ministry for Environmental Protection, 143 new environmentalism, 171–72 niche society, 9 people’s enterprises, 90, 138–48 rental market, 144 social inequalities, 142–48 VEB Naherholung, 140–48 white-collar workers, 144–48 See also campgrounds, camping bureaucracy, 3, 4, 6 bureaucratic reform, 136–42 leisure planners, 139 Oberhof system, 139 SED responses, 137–42 Burger, Leonhard, 31 camp council (Campingbeirat), 93 campgrounds 80, 89–90, 94–96 bungalows, 94 Greifenbach Reservoir, 143–48 people’s enterprises, 90 SED, 80 VEB Naherholung, 94 See also bungalows; camping camping, 79–97 automobile, 85–86, 88–89 class structure, 144–48 comfort, 86–97 compared to Zelten, 83–84, 87 conformists, 86 consumer goods, 87 costs, 85 equipment, 87–88 Greifenbach Reservoir, 143–48 mainstream consensus, 146–51 mainstream culture, 86 niche society, 80 people’s enterprises, 90 political identities, 85 SED, 82, 86–97 service class, 144–48 social class, 84–86 social inequalities, 144–48 socialism modernism, 86–97 white collar workers, 84–86, 144–48 Carl, Frank Erich, 57–59, 63–64, 67, 83, 122, 142 Carson, Rachel, 108 CDU. See Christian Democratic Union Central Administration for Nature Protection , 56 Central Committee of the SED, 60, 62, 111 Centrifugal forces, 10 Chaney, Sandra, 17, 68, 109, 158 Chemistry Program, 81, 87, 169 Chernobyl, 157, 169 Christian Democratic Union, 13, 25 Christianity, 94, 172–74 environmentalism, 172–74 Greifenbach Reservoir, 94 See also churches churches, 2, 7, 17, 156–59, 166–75 Ecclesiastical Research Center in Wittenberg , 168, 170–72, 174 environmentalism, 2, 17, 156–59, 162, 165–75 evangelical, 156–57 SED, 156–57 class structure, 4, 17, 84–86, 144–48 bungalows, 84–86, 144–48 camping, 84–86, 144–48 service class (or white-collar workers), 4, 17, 144–48 See also social inequalities colonialism, 12 Common Market, 13 communists, 29–32, 58 conquest of nature, 8, 12, 15 Europe, 15 socialism, 15 Index 217 conservation, 8, 11, 13–16, 30, 49–63, 66, 68–69, 108, 113–16, 171, 174 authoritarianism, 8, 14–15 comprehensive planning, 54–56 continuity, 11, 14–16, 49–59 critique of liberal capitalism, 14, 54 early years of GDR, 16, 55–59 Europe, 15–16 FRG, 13, 16–17, 68–69 Friends of Nature, 30 global conservationists...