Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Memory of Freedom 1
5. 1: Protocols of History: Reunification Documentaries from 1989/1990 31
6. 2: Anarchy in the GDR 76
7. 3: The National Liberation Zone 117
8. 4: Coming of Age as the State Dies: Three Novels and Their Heroes 155
9. 5: Provincial Theater: Fiction Film Struggles to Address German Reunification in the Early 1990s 198
10. 6: The Grand Theater of the East and the Imaginary Stasi: The Emergence of the Standard Depiction of German Reunification in Film and on Television 226
11. 7: Ritual, Repetition, and Memory: Commemorating and Memorializing 1989/1990 266
12. Conclusion: The Last GDR 293
13. Selected Works Cited 309
14. Filmography 325
15. Index 327