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Adventure Warsaw ��� Adventure PRL!

Authors: Balcerzak, Agnieszka;

Adventure Warsaw ��� Adventure PRL!

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Der Artikel beschäftigt sich mit der Praxis der Kommodifizierung des kommunistischen Erbes der Volkrepublik Polen (1945-1989) als touristische Destination und kulturelle Ressource im heutigen Warschau. Die ethnografische Analyse an der Schnittstelle von Geschichtstourismus, Museumswesen, Sachkulturforschung und Heritage Studies fokussiert sich auf zwei empirische Fallstudien als Beispiele für die kommerziell-vergnügliche Popularisierung der PRL-Geschichte. Das sind die Communist-Heritage-Touren des Tourismusunternehmens WPT 1313 und die Dokumentation des kommunistischen Erbes im Museum des Lebens in der PRL, die einheimische wie ausländische Tourist*innen mit der absurd-schauerlichen Realität des Alltagslebens im Kommunismus bekanntmachen oder diese ins Gedächtnis rufen. Der Artikel argumentiert, dass die Darstellung der 1989 untergegangenen PRL-Epoche als Destination, Ressource und Praxis auf prototypischer, nostalgischer Sehnsucht der Tourist*innen nach dem sinnlich-emotionalen Erfahren des Authentischen basiert. Beide kommerzialisierten Produkte der Warschauer Tourismus- und Unterhaltungskultur, die auf der Verquickung von Tourismus und Vergangenheit basieren, füllen eine touristische Marktlücke. Ein ethnografischer Blick auf die diese Nische ausfüllenden Praktiken, Räume und Agent*innen, veranschaulicht wie sie auf Vergnügung abzielende sinnlich-emotive und ästhetisch-performative Entdeckungs- und Erlebnisfelder der Vergegenwärtigung des kommunistischen Erbens schaffen und dabei zwischen kritischer Distanzierung und spielerischer Aneignung oszillierend, die touristische Infrastruktur in dem urbanen Raum Warschaus prägen.

The article analyses practices and images of commercialization of the communist heritage as tourist destination and cultural resource in today’s Warsaw. The analysis at the intersection of heritage studies, historical tourism and material culture focuses on two empirical case studies as examples of commercial popularization of the history of People’s Republic of Poland (1945-1989). These are the communist heritage tours of WPT 1313 and the documentation of the communist heritage exhibition at the Museum of Life in the PRL. The article argues that the commodification of the PRL era as destination, resource and practice is based on the prototypical, nostalgic longing of tourists for a sensual and emotional experience of the authentic past. The heritage tours and the museum as commercialized products of Polish tourism culture, based on the amalgamation of tourism and past, fill a gap in Warsaw’s tourist market. An ethnographic perspective on the practices, spaces, images and agents, which fill this niche, illustrates how they create sensual-emotive, aesthetic and performative fields of discovering and experiencing of the communist heritage. Finally, the article explores how these mechanisms and agents shape the tourist infrastructure of ​​Warsaw while oscillating between playful appropriation and critical distancing towards the communist past.

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ddc:301, 301 Soziologie und Anthropologie, Polen, 300 Sozialwissenschaften, ddc:300, nostalgia, heritage studies, Heritage Studies, historical tourism, Nostalgie, postcommunism, Geschichtstourismus, Poland, Postkommunismus

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