Performing the Modern German

Matthias Uecker is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham. He has published books on documentary writing in the Weimar Republic (Wirklichkeit und Literatur, 2007), Alexander Kluges television productions (Anti-Fernsehen?, 2000) and cultural politics in the Ruhr area during the Weimar Republic (Zwischen Industrieprovinz und Großstadthoffnung, 1994), as well as numerous articles on German literature and cinema.

• Contents: The Power of Performance When Is a Man a Man? Performances of Conflicted Masculinity Jewish Drag: Ritual and Identity in the Performance of Jewishness East is East? Performative Constructions of East German Lives Between Otherness and Hyphenation: Turkish-German Performances Against Normality? Performing Rebellion and Resistance Perform or Else! Conformism, Achievement and Subversion in the Performance Society The Pursuit of Normality: Performed Identities in Current German Cinema.

«[Eine] lobenswerte[ ], theoretisch fundierte[ ] Untersuchung [...], die dem englischsprachigen Fachpublikum wertvolle Hinweise auf die Auseinandersetzung der jüngsten Generation deutscher FilmemacherInnen mit ihrer Realität liefert.» (Wolfgang Schlott, MEDIENwissenschaft 4/2014)