The GDR remembered
Subtitle: representations of the East German state since 1989
By: edited by Nick Hodgin and Caroline Pearce
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781571134349
Subjects: Historiography; Collective memory; In motion pictures; In popular culture; In literature; Popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Berlin to Prenzlau : representations of GDR theater in film and literature / Laura Bradley; title: Melancholy and historical loss : postunification portrayals of GDR writers and artists / Anne O'Driscoll; title: Literary portrayals of the GDR by non-GDR citizens / Stuart Parkes; title: Screening the Stasi : the politics of representation in postunification film / Nick Hodgin; title: "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; title: Re-mapping the wall : the wall memorial in Bernauer Strasse : from an unloved Cold War monument to a new type of memorial site / Gunter Schlusche; title: Commemorating the Berlin Wall / Pertti Ahonen; title: The evolution of memorial sites in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 1990 / Andreas Wagner; title: An unequal balance? : memorializing Germany's "double past" since 1990 / Caroline Pearce; title: Living through the GDR : history, life stories, and generations in East Germany / Mary Fulbrook; title: Competing master narratives : Geschichtspolitik and identity discourse in three German societies / Thomas Ahbe; title: Worin noch niemand war : the GDR as retrospectively imagined community / Peter Thompson; title: GDR historiography after the end of the GDR : debates, renewals, and the question of what remains / Stefan Berger.