Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Introduction
5. “Schreiber, was siehst du?” Processing Historical and Social Change 3
6. Authors and Their Worlds
7. The Journey Eastward: Helga Schütz’ Vom Glanz der Elbe and the Mnemonic Politics of German Unification 17
8. “ob es sich bei diesem Experiment um eine gescheiterte Utopie oder um ein Verbrechen gehandelt hat”: Enlightenment, Utopia, the GDR and National Socialism in Monika Maron’s Work From Flugasche to Pawels Briefe 35
9. Remembering the GDR: Memory and Evasion in Autobiographical Writing from the Former GDR 59
10. “Gefälle in der Landschaft” – On the critique of real existing capitalism in Volker Braun’s texts 77
11. Comedic Bestseller or Insightful Satire: Taking the Interview and Autobiography to Task in Thomas Brussig’s Helden wie wir 95
12. Multiple Voice–Generational Views
13. “Man muß jetzt laut schreien, um gehört zu werden”: Stefan Heym, Walter Jens, Helga Königsdorf: An intellectual opposition? 109
14. Everyday Stories of Hope and Despair in Eastern Germany: Kerstin Hensel and Ingo Schulze Write about Life after the Wende 131
15. “Ko . . .Ko . . . Konolialismus,” said the giraffe: Humorous and Satirical Responses to German Unification 151
16. Theatrical Confrontations with the Wende and Post- Unification Germany: Strauß, Pohl, and Hein 171
17. Cinematic Responses
18. Mastering the Past and Present: Problems of Memory in Postwar and Post -Wende German Cinema 193
19. Ghosts of Babelsberg: Narrative strategies of the Wendefilm 211
20. German-Germanness: On Borders, Hybridity, and Sameness in Margarethe von Trotta’s Das Versprechen 225
21. History as Melodrama: German Division and Unification in Two Recent Films 233
22. Sonnenallee: Taking Comedy Seriously in Unified Germany 253
23. Notes on Contributors 273
24. Index of Names 277
25. Backmatter 279