Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Inheriting the Social-Justice Legacy of the 1968 Generation
6. 1: On Potatoes, Forgeries, Mistaken Identities, and Cultural Revolution in Uwe Timm’s Postwall Novel Johannisnacht 21
7. 2: “Maybe the Genuine Utopia”: Uwe Timm’s Vision of a “Postsocialist” Society in the Novel Rot 47
8. Part II: Social Justice Matters in Popular Culture
9. 3: Social Injustice in the German Tatort Television Series 67
10. 4: Die Toten Hosen, Rammstein, Azad, and Massiv: German Rock and Rap Go Global for Social Justice 88
11. 5: Critical Voices from the Underground: Street Art and Urban Transformation in Berlin 119
12. Part III: Eastern German Views of Social Justice in Novels and Films
13. 6: Politics and Prekariat in Christoph Hein’s Novels Frau Paula Trousseau and Weiskerns Nachlass 145
14. 7: “Erzählt ist erzählt”: The Ethics of Narration in Christa Wolf’s Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud 165
15. 8: Social Consciousness in the Bionade-Biedermeier: An Interview with Filmmakers Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke 186
16. Part IV: Theater as an Interventionist Medium for Promoting Social Justice
17. 9: Through Performance to Social Justice: Schlingensief’s Narcissistic Sociality 205
18. 10: The Postdramatic Paradox: Theater as an Interventionist Medium in Falk Richter’s Das System 227
19. Part V: Beyond Germany’s Borders: Social-Justice Issues in a Global Context
20. 11: Settling in Mobility: Socioeconomic Justice and European Borderlands in Hans-Christian Schmid’s Films Lichter and Die wundersame Welt der Waschkraft 253
21. 12: The Ethics of Listening in Dana Ranga’s Wasserbuch and Terézia Mora’s Das Ungeheuer 275
22. 13: Navid Kermani: Advocate for an Antipatriotic Patriotism and a Multireligious, Multicultural Europe 290
23. Notes on the Contributors 313
24. Index 317