Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part 1 - Remembering the GDR in Literature and Film

pp 17-18

1 - From Berlin to Prenzlau: Representations of GDR Theater in Film and Literature

pp 19-36

2 - Melancholy and Historical Loss: Postunification Portrayals of GDR Writers and Artists

pp 37-53

3 - Literary Portrayals of the GDR by Non-GDR Citizens

pp 54-68

4 - Screening the Stasi: The Politics of Representation in Postunification Film

pp 69-92

Part 2 - Remembering the GDR through Museums and Memorials

pp 93-94

5 - “The Spirit of an Epoch Is Not Just Reflected in Pictures and Books, but Also in Pots and Frying Pans”: GDR Museums and Memories of Everyday Life

pp 95-111

6 - Remapping the Wall: The Wall Memorial in Bernauer Strasse — From an Unloved Cold War Monument to a New Type of Memorial Site

pp 112-132

7 - Commemorating the Berlin Wall

pp 133-150

8 - The Evolution of Memorial Sites in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania since 1990

pp 151-171

9 - An Unequal Balance? Memorializing Germany’s “Double Past” since 1990

pp 172-198

Part 3 - Ostalgie, Historiography, and Generational Memory

pp 199-200

10 - Living through the GDR: History, Life Stories, and Generations in East Germany

pp 201-220

11 - Competing Master Narratives: Geschichtspolitik and Identity Discourse in Three German Societies

pp 221-249

12 - “Worin noch niemand war”: The GDR as Retrospectively Imagined Community

pp 250-265

13 - GDR Historiography after the End of the GDR: Debates, Renewals, and the Question of What Remains

pp 266-286

Notes on the Contributors

pp 287-290

Index

pp 291-300