The Gdr Remembered - Representations of the East German State Since 1989

Competing representations of the former East German state in the German cultural memory.

List of contents

Introduction - Nick Hodgin and Caroline Pearce
From Berlin to Prenzlau: Representations of GDR Theater in Film and Literature - Laura Bradley
Melancholy and Historical Loss: Postunification Portrayals of GDR Writers and Artists - Anna O'Driscoll
Literary Portrayals of the GDR by Non-GDR Citizens - Stuart Parkes
Screening the Stasi: The Politics of Representation in Postunification Film - Nick Hodgin
"The Spirit of an Epoch Is Not Just Reflected in Pictures and Books, but Also in Pots and Frying Pans": GDR Museums and Memories of Everyday Life - Silke Arnold-de Simine
Remapping the Wall: The Wall Memorial in Bernauer Strasse - From an Unloved Cold War Monument to a New Type of Memorial Site - Günter Schlusche
Commemorating the Berlin Wall - Pertti Ahonen
The Evolution of Memorial Sites in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania since 1990 - Andreas Wagner
An Unequal Balance? Memorializing Germany's "Double Past" since 1990 - Caroline Pearce
Living through the GDR: History, Life Stories, and Generations in East Germany - Mary Fulbrook
Competing Master Narratives: Geschichtspolitik and Identity Discourse in Three German Societies - Thomas Ahbe
"Worin noch niemand war": The GDR as Retrospectively Imagined Community - Peter Thompson
GDR Historiography after the End of the GDR: Debates,Renewals, and the Question of What Remains - Stefan Berger
Notes on the Contributors
Index

About the author

Nick Hodgin, Caroline Pearce

Product details

• Authors: Nick Hodgin
• Assisted by: Nick Hodgin (Editor), Caroline Pearce (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2011
• EAN: 9781571134349
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-434-9
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 40 mm
• Weight: 621 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Deutsch, Deutschland, Europäische Geschichte, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature