Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction
5. Berlin’s Symphony Continues: Architectural, Social and Artistic Change 3
6. Physical Space
7. Gedächtnis and Zukunft, Remembrance and the Future: A Photo-Essay 13
8. Shifting Margins and Contested Centers: Changing Cinematic Visions of (West) Berlin 41
9. Building on a Metaphor: Democracy, Transparency and the Berlin Reichstag 59
10. “Neues, altes Tor zur Welt”: The New Central Station in the “New” Berlin 77
11. Tracking Berlin: Along S-Bahn Linie 5 93
12. Experiential Space
13. The Collapse of Time: German History and Identity in Hubertus Siegert’s Berlin Babylon (2001) and Thomas Schadt’s Berlin: Sinfonie einer Großstadt (2002) 119
14. The Symphony of a Capital City: Controversies of Reunification in the Berlin Music Community 143
15. Mutual Othering: East and West Berliners Happily Divided? 165
16. Heinz Bude’s Defining Construct for the Berlin Republic: The Generation Berlin 187
17. Living Berlin: Autobiography and the City 205
18. Representation
19. Divided and Reunited Berlin in Peter Schneider’s Fiction 223
20. Berlin Snapshots: Images of the City in Short Fiction 245
21. No History, Just Stories: Revisiting Tradition in Berlin Films of the 1990s 261
22. Growing Together, Growing Apart: Berlin Love Stories as Allegories of German Unification 279
23. Weimar Project(ion)s in Post-Unification Cinema 301
24. Notes on Contributors 321
25. Index 325