Nick Hodgin gained a degree in English and German after studying at universities in Britain, America and Germany. His research focuses on German cultural history with a particular emphasis on German film and eastern Germany. He teaches at the University of Sheffield.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Films and Identity: Reflecting the Nation Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia Chapter 1. Mapping Identity After Unity: Stereotypes and Dissent A Post-GDR Identity? Ostalgie - Recharging the Batteries of Identity Chapter 2. Heimat Stories: East Meets West The Heimatfilm: Past Genres for Present Tensions Heimatas Refuge Locating Heimat in the GDR Screening Heimat in the GDR Contesting Heimat An Island Mentality:D Brocken Heimat Found?Go Trabi Go II. Das war der wilde Osten Conclusion: Triumph of the Underdog Chapter 3. Lost Landscapes Provincial Fears and Loathing Escaping Heimat Failed Utopia? Paradise Lost? Post-unification Landscapes: Charting Memory Stories from the Margins Still Life: Representing the East Memory and Loss Neben der Zeit: Memories in Ruins, Ruined Memories Landscape and Meaning Chapter 4. At the Back of Beyond: Heimat East On the Road Again The Occidental Tourists: Wir Konnen auch anders Resisting Stereotypes On the Run The Community as Mob Borderland/Bored Land Community Undone Chapter 5. Berlin: Disorientation/Reorientation After Unification: Lapsus memoriae? No-Man's Land Orientations Haunted by the Past Disorientation New Cartographies: Berlin is in Germany Chapter 6. Good Bye, Ostalgie? Commodifying the Past Disneyland GDR Reimagining the GDR Recycling the Past: Der Zimmerspringbrunnen Reconstructing the GDR Between Ostalgie and Westalgie Fade to Grey: NVA Stasiland GDR Conclusion A Community Apart? Towards Normalization? Filmography Bibliography Index

- contains useful and nuanced readings of the best-known films dealing with themes related to unification, as well as highlighting some equally interesting lesser-known works, in order to provide a rounded picture of German cinema's engagement with these issues in the past 17 years. I am not aware of any other publication that covers such a range of material and this in itself makes the book a valuable contribution to the field.A" * David Clarke, University of Bath

Nick Hodgin gained a degree in English and German after studying at universities in Britain, America and Germany. His research focuses on German cultural history with a particular emphasis on German film and eastern Germany. He teaches at the University of Sheffield.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Films and Identity: Reflecting the Nation Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia Chapter 1. Mapping Identity After Unity: Stereotypes and Dissent A Post-GDR Identity? Ostalgie - Recharging the Batteries of Identity Chapter 2. Heimat Stories: East Meets West The Heimatfilm: Past Genres for Present Tensions Heimatas Refuge Locating Heimat in the GDR Screening Heimat in the GDR Contesting Heimat An Island Mentality:D Brocken Heimat Found?Go Trabi Go II. Das war der wilde Osten Conclusion: Triumph of the Underdog Chapter 3. Lost Landscapes Provincial Fears and Loathing Escaping Heimat Failed Utopia? Paradise Lost? Post-unification Landscapes: Charting Memory Stories from the Margins Still Life: Representing the East Memory and Loss Neben der Zeit: Memories in Ruins, Ruined Memories Landscape and Meaning Chapter 4. At the Back of Beyond: Heimat East On the Road Again The Occidental Tourists: Wir Konnen auch anders Resisting Stereotypes On the Run The Community as Mob Borderland/Bored Land Community Undone Chapter 5. Berlin: Disorientation/Reorientation After Unification: Lapsus memoriae? No-Man's Land Orientations Haunted by the Past Disorientation New Cartographies: Berlin is in Germany Chapter 6. Good Bye, Ostalgie? Commodifying the Past Disneyland GDR Reimagining the GDR Recycling the Past: Der Zimmerspringbrunnen Reconstructing the GDR Between Ostalgie and Westalgie Fade to Grey: NVA Stasiland GDR Conclusion A Community Apart? Towards Normalization? Filmography Bibliography Index

- contains useful and nuanced readings of the best-known films dealing with themes related to unification, as well as highlighting some equally interesting lesser-known works, in order to provide a rounded picture of German cinema's engagement with these issues in the past 17 years. I am not aware of any other publication that covers such a range of material and this in itself makes the book a valuable contribution to the field.A" * David Clarke, University of Bath

Nick Hodgin gained a degree in English and German after studying at universities in Britain, America and Germany. His research focuses on German cultural history with a particular emphasis on German film and eastern Germany. He teaches at the University of Sheffield.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Films and Identity: Reflecting the Nation Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia Chapter 1. Mapping Identity After Unity: Stereotypes and Dissent A Post-GDR Identity? Ostalgie - Recharging the Batteries of Identity Chapter 2. Heimat Stories: East Meets West The Heimatfilm: Past Genres for Present Tensions Heimatas Refuge Locating Heimat in the GDR Screening Heimat in the GDR Contesting Heimat An Island Mentality:D Brocken Heimat Found?Go Trabi Go II. Das war der wilde Osten Conclusion: Triumph of the Underdog Chapter 3. Lost Landscapes Provincial Fears and Loathing Escaping Heimat Failed Utopia? Paradise Lost? Post-unification Landscapes: Charting Memory Stories from the Margins Still Life: Representing the East Memory and Loss Neben der Zeit: Memories in Ruins, Ruined Memories Landscape and Meaning Chapter 4. At the Back of Beyond: Heimat East On the Road Again The Occidental Tourists: Wir Konnen auch anders Resisting Stereotypes On the Run The Community as Mob Borderland/Bored Land Community Undone Chapter 5. Berlin: Disorientation/Reorientation After Unification: Lapsus memoriae? No-Man's Land Orientations Haunted by the Past Disorientation New Cartographies: Berlin is in Germany Chapter 6. Good Bye, Ostalgie? Commodifying the Past Disneyland GDR Reimagining the GDR Recycling the Past: Der Zimmerspringbrunnen Reconstructing the GDR Between Ostalgie and Westalgie Fade to Grey: NVA Stasiland GDR Conclusion A Community Apart? Towards Normalization? Filmography Bibliography Index

- contains useful and nuanced readings of the best-known films dealing with themes related to unification, as well as highlighting some equally interesting lesser-known works, in order to provide a rounded picture of German cinema's engagement with these issues in the past 17 years. I am not aware of any other publication that covers such a range of material and this in itself makes the book a valuable contribution to the field.A" * David Clarke, University of Bath