Remembering and Rethinking the GDR: Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: ‘Wissen wie es war’?....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The GDR and the Memory Debate....Pages 19-33
Selective Memory: Channelling the Past in Post-GDR Society....Pages 34-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Reframing Antifascism: Greta Kuckhoff as Author, Commentator and Critic....Pages 51-66
Community and Genre: Autobiographical Rememberings of Stasi Oppression....Pages 67-82
Doppelgänger in Post-Wende Literature: Klaus Schlesinger’s Trug and Beyond....Pages 83-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
‘Ostalgie doesn’t fit!’: Individual Interpretations of and Interaction with Ostalgie ....Pages 101-115
Reflective Nostalgia and Diasporic Memory: Composing East Germany after 1989....Pages 116-131
Colour and Time in Museums of East German Everyday Life....Pages 132-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Memory Matters and Contexts: Remembering for Past, Present and Future....Pages 149-163
The Politics of Memory in Berlin’s Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal ....Pages 164-178
‘We were heroes.’ Local Memories of Autumn 1989: Revising the Past....Pages 179-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Re-Imaging the Niche: Visual Reconstructions of Private Spaces in the GDR....Pages 197-213
Memories, Secrets and Lies: The Emotional Legacy of the GDR in Christian Schwochow’s Novemberkind (2008)....Pages 214-228
Life in the Army: Reported, Represented, Remembered....Pages 229-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-253