Remembering and Rethinking the GDR

1. Introduction: ‘Wissen wie es war’?
Anna Saunders, Debbie Pinfold

Part I. Theoretical Reflections

2. The GDR and the Memory Debate
Silke Arnold-de Simine, Susannah Radstone

3. Selective Memory: Channelling the Past in Post-GDR Society
Patricia Hogwood

Part II. Narrative Frameworks of Memory

4. Reframing Antifascism: Greta Kuckhoff as Author, Commentator and Critic
Joanne Sayner

5. Community and Genre: Autobiographical Rememberings of Stasi Oppression
Sara Jones

6. Doppelgänger in Post-Wende Literature: Klaus Schlesinger’s Trug and Beyond
Elke Gilson

Part III. Beyond Nostalgia

7. ‘Ostalgie doesn’t fit!’: Individual Interpretations of and Interaction with Ostalgie

Claire Hyland

8. Reflective Nostalgia and Diasporic Memory: Composing East Germany after 1989
Elaine Kelly

9. Colour and Time in Museums of East German Everyday Life
Chloe Paver

Part IV. Past Memories for Present Concerns

10. Memory Matters and Contexts: Remembering for Past, Present and Future
Anselma Gallinat

11. The Politics of Memory in Berlin’s Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal

Anna Saunders

12. ‘We were heroes.’ Local Memories of Autumn 1989: Revising the Past
Alexandra Kaiser

Part V. Memories in Private and Public

13. Re-Imaging the Niche: Visual Reconstructions of Private Spaces in the GDR
Gabriele Mueller

14. Memories, Secrets and Lies: The Emotional Legacy of the GDR in Christian Schwochow’s Novemberkind (2008)
Owen Evans

15. Life in the Army: Reported, Represented, Remembered
Mark Allinson

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Media Studies, History of Germany and Central Europe, Cultural History, Social History, Memory Studies, Imperialism and Colonialism