Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Introduction: The Importance and Diversity of Cultural Memory in the GDR Context

pp 1-20

Part I - Media Constructions of 1989 and the Elusiveness of the Historical GDR

pp 21-22

1 - Visual Re-Productions of the Wende: The Role Played by Television Images in Constituting and Historicizing Political Events

pp 23-38

2 - Remembering GDR Culture in Postunification Germany and Beyond

pp 39-54

Part II - Challenges to the Dominant Discourse of the Wende

pp 55-56

3 - “Das waren wir nicht!”: The Image of East Germans and the GDR as a Narrative Problem after 1989 in Klaus Schlesinger’s Die Sache mit Randow

pp 57-68

4 - “Der Schrei des Marsyas”: The Mythic Voices of the Subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl’s Mutter Vater Roman

pp 69-84

5 - An Early Challenge to the Construction of Cross-Border Romance in Post-1989 Film: Andreas Dresen’s So schnell es geht nach Istanbul

pp 85-98

Part III - Textual Memory

pp 99-100

6 - Mediating Immediacy: Historicizing the GDR by Bringing It Back to Life in Postmillennial Works of Fiction

pp 101-113

7 - “Eine Armee wie jede andere auch”? Writers and Filmmakers Remember the Nationale Volksarmee

pp 114-125

8 - Matter Out of Place: Trash and Transition in Clemens Meyer’s Als wir träumten

pp 126-138

Part IV - Literary Generations — Competing Perspectives

pp 139-140

9 - Autobiographical Writing in Three Generations of a GDR Family: Christa Wolf — Annette Simon — Jana Simon

pp 141-157

10 - Accursed Progenitors? Extending the Generation-Gap Debate to GDR Parents

pp 158-170

11 - Parallels and Divergences in Post-1989 Memory Discourse: A Comparative Review of the Slovak Experience

pp 171-184

Part V - Afterlives

pp 185-186

12 - Dances of Death: A Last Literature from the GDR

pp 187-202

13 - “Die Gegenwart war es nicht”: Irina Liebmann and the Post-Wende Uncanny

pp 203-216

14 - One Iota of Difference: Remembering GDR Literature as Socialist Literature

pp 217-232

Notes on the Contributors

pp 233-238

Index

pp 239-244