Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Historical and Sociological Reflections: 1989 and the Rehabilitation of German History

pp 15-16

1 - 1989 and the Chronological Imagination

pp 17-29

2 - Unity on Trial: The Mauerschützenprozesse and the East-West Rifts of Unified Germany

pp 30-45

3 - Apples, Identity, and Memory in Post-1989 Germany

pp 46-64

Part II - Architectural and Filmic Mediations: Germany in Transit and the Urban Condition

pp 65-66

4 - Topographical Turns: Recasting Berlin in Christian Petzold’s Gespenster

pp 67-81

5 - Interrupting Unity: The Berlin Wall’s Second Life on Screen — a Transnational Perspective

pp 82-99

6 - Beyond the Wall: Reunifying Berlin

pp 100-116

7 - The Rebirth of Historic Dresden

pp 117-128

Part III - Retrospective Reimaginings: The Death and Afterlife of East and West Germany in Contemporary Literature

pp 129-130

8 - Labyrinths, Mazes, and Mosaics: Fiction by Christa Wolf, Ingo Schulze, Antje Rávic Strubel, and Jens Sparschuh

pp 131-155

9 - Reimagining the West: West Germany, Westalgia, and the Generation of 1978

pp 156-169

10 - “Dem Sichtbaren war nicht ganz zu trauen”: Poetic Reflections on German Unification in Angela Krauss and Monika Maron

pp 170-183

11 - Cultural Topography and Emotional Legacies in Durs Grünbein’s Dresden Poetry

pp 184-204

12 - History from a Bird’s Eye View: Reimagining the Past in Marcel Beyer’s Kaltenburg

pp 205-220

Works Cited

pp 221-244

Notes on the Contributors

pp 245-248

Index

pp 249-256