Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Whither Autobiography? The Difficulties of Saying “I” in the German Context 1
5. Part I. The Geographies of Self-Inscription
6. 1: “If People Want to Oppress You, They Make You Say ‘I’”: Hito Steyerl in Conversation 37
7. 2: The Impertinence of Saying “I”: Sylvia Schedelbauer’s Personal Documentaries 52
8. 3: Geography of a Swiss Body: Peter Liechti’s Hans im Glück 70
9. 4: Reading Helke Misselwitz’s Winter Adé as Multivocal Autobiography 87
10. Part II. Subalterities of Gender, Race, and Nation
11. 5: How Does It Feel to Be Foreign? Negotiating German Belonging and Transnational Asianness in Experimental Video 111
12. 6: Frankfurt Canteen: Eva Heldmann’s fremd gehen. Gespräche mit meiner Freundin 137
13. Part III. Our Parents, Our Selves: Families Framed by History
14. 7: Mediated Memories of Migration and the National Visual Archive: Fatih Akın’s Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren 173
15. 8: History Runs through the Family: Framing the Nazi Past in Recent Autobiographical Documentary 194
16. 9: Clearing Out Family History: Thomas Haemmerli’s Sieben Mulden und eine Leiche 210
17. Part IV. Revisiting Authorship in New German Cinema
18. 10: Reauthoring the Self: Brinkmanns Zorn 235
19. 11: From Death to Life: Wim Wenders, Autobiography, and the Natural History of Cinema 255
20. 12: “Ich bin’s, Fassbinder,” or The Timing of the Self 277
21. Filmography 297
22. Bibliography 307
23. Contributors 327
24. Index 331