Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: United Politics— Divided Culture? 1
5. Part I. What Remains: History and the Constitution
6. 1: Lost in Transition: Reflections on the Spectral History of the GDR 17
7. 2: Reconstituting the Federal Republic? Constitutional Law and Politics before and since 1989 39
8. Part II. What and How Do We Remember? Literature, Film, and Exhibitions
9. 3: East German Literature and Reunification: Continuities and Discontinuities 57
10. 4: The Afterlife of the GDR in Post-Wall German Cinema 72
11. 5: Exhibiting 1989/2009: Memory, Affect, and the Politics of History 96
12. Part III. A Changing Reception: Painting, Orchestras, and Theaters
13. 6: Reexamining the Staatskünstler Myth: Bernhard Heisig and the Post-Wall Reception of East German Painting 115
14. 7: East German Orchestras and Theaters: The Transformation since the Wende 131
15. Part IV. A Virtual Wall? Education and Society
16. 8: What Do German High School Students Think about the GDR? Memory Culture between Glorification and Evaluation 143
17. 9: The Ongoing Significance of East Germany and the Wende Narrative in Public Discourse 166
18. Epilogue: The Wende and the End of “the German Problem” 183
19. Notes on the Contributors 191
20. Index 195