Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Groundwork
7. Chapter 1. Preserving the Past Before and After the Wende: A Case Study of Quedlinburg 21
8. Chapter 2. No Man’s Land: Fiction and Reality in Buddy Giovinazzo’s Potsdamer Platz 45
9. Part II. Projections
10. Chapter 3. Cinematic Reflections of Germany’s Postunification Woes: Architecture and Urban Space of Frankfurt (Oder) in Halbe Treppe, Lichter, and Kombat Sechzehn 67
11. Chapter 4. Reclaiming the Thuringian Tuscany: The Touristic Appeal of Bad Sulza and its Toskana Therme 88
12. Chapter 5. Berlin through the Lens: Space and (National) Identity in the Postunification Capital 114
13. Chapter 6. The Amputated City: The Voids of Hoyerswerda 142
14. Part III. Theories
15. Chapter 7. Sounding out Erfurt: Does the Song Remain the Same? 169
16. Chapter 8. Restoration and Redemption: Defending Kultur and Heimat in Eisenach’s Cityscape 195
17. Chapter 9. The Bauwerk in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility: Historical Reconstruction, Pious Modernism, and Dresden’s “süße Krankheit” 225
18. Afterword 249
19. Contributors 255
20. Index 259