Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Introduction: United Politics—Divided Culture?

pp 1-16

Part I - What Remains: History and the Constitution

pp 17-18

1 - Lost in Transition: Reflections on the Spectral History of the GDR

pp 19-38

2 - Reconstituting the Federal Republic? Constitutional Law and Politics before and since 1989

pp 39-56

Part II - What and How Do We Remember? Literature, Film, and Exhibitions

pp 57-58

3 - East German Literature and Reunification: Continuities and Discontinuities

pp 59-71

4 - The Afterlife of the GDR in Post-Wall German Cinema

pp 72-95

5 - Exhibiting 1989/2009: Memory, Affect, and the Politics of History

pp 96-114

Part III - A Changing Reception: Painting, Orchestras, and Theaters

pp 115-116

6 - Reexamining the Staatskünstler Myth: Bernhard Heisig and the Post-Wall Reception of East German Painting

pp 117-130

7 - East German Orchestras and Theaters: The Transformation since the Wende

pp 131-142

Part IV - A Virtual Wall? Education and Society

pp 143-144

8 - What Do German High School Students Think about the GDR? Memory Culture between Glorification and Evaluation

pp 145-165

9 - The Ongoing Significance of East Germany and the Wende Narrative in Public Discourse

pp 166-182

Epilogue: The Wende and the End of “the German Problem”

pp 183-190

Notes on the Contributors

pp 191-194

Index

pp 195-201