Remembering and Rethinking the GDR: Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities

List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.Pinfold A.Saunders PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS The GDR and the Memory Debate; S.Radstone & S.Arnold-de Simine Selective Memory: Channelling the Past in Post-GDR Society; P.Hogwood PART II: NARRATIVE FRAMEWORKS OF MEMORY Reframing Antifascism: Greta Kuckhoff as Author, Commentator and Critic; J.Sayner Community and Genre: Autobiographical Rememberings of Stasi Oppression; S.Jones Doppelgänger in Post-Wende Literature: Klaus Schlesinger's Trug and beyond; E.Gilson PART III: BEYOND NOSTALGIA 'Ostalgie doesn't fit': Individual Interpretations of and Interaction with Ostalgie; C.Hyland Reflective Nostalgia and Diasporic Memory: Composing East Germany after 1989; E.Kelly Colour and Time in Museums of East German Everyday Life; C.Paver PART IV: PAST MEMORIES FOR PRESENT CONCERNS Memory Matters and Contexts: Remembering for Past, Present and Future; A.Gallinat The Politics of Memory in Berlin's Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal; A.Saunders 'We were heroes.' Local Memories of Autumn 1989: Revising the Past; A.Kaiser PART V: MEMORIES IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC Re-Imagining the Niche: Visual Reconstructions of Private Spaces in the GDR; G.Mueller Memories, Secrets and Lies: The Emotional Legacy of the GDR in Christian Schwochow's Novemberkind; O.Evans Life in the Army: Reported, Represented, Remembered; M.Allinson Index