Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer inGerman at the University of Liverpool. STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.

• Introduction: The Importance and Diversity of Cultural Memory in the GDR Context - George Dennis TateVisual Re-Productions of the Wende: The Role Played by Television Images in Constituting and Historicizing Political Events - Hilde HoffmannRemembering GDR Culture in Postunification Germany and Beyond - Stephen Brockmann"Das waren wir nicht!": The Image of East Germans and the GDR as a Narrative Problem after 1989 in Klaus Schlesinger's Die Sache mit Randow - Daniel Argeles"Der Schrei des Marsyas": The Mythic Voices of the Subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's Mutter Vater Roman - Arne de Winde"Der Schrei des Marsyas": The Mythic Voices of the Subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's Mutter Vater Roman - Frederik Van DamAn Early Challenge to the Construction of Cross-Border Romance in Post-1989 Film: Andreas Dresen's So schnelles geht nach Istanbul - Rosemary StottMediating Immediacy: Historicizing the GDR by Bringing It Back to Life in Postmillennial Works of Fiction - Andrea Geier"Eine Armee wie jede andere auch"? Writers and Filmmakers Remember the Nationale Volksarmee - Andrew PlowmanMatter Out of Place: Trash and Transition in Clemens Meyer's Als wir träumten - Gillian PyeAutobiographical Writing in Three Generations of a GDR Family: Christa Wolf - Annette Simon - Jana Simon - Wolfgang EmmerichAccursed Progenitors? Extending the Generation-Gap Debate to GDR Parents - Astrid KoehlerParallels and Divergences in Post-1989 Memory Discourse: A Comparative Review of the Slovak Experience - Nadezda ZemanikovaDances of Death: A Last Literature from the GDR - Karen Leeder"Die Gegenwart war es nicht": Irina Liebmann and the Post-Wende Uncanny - Catherine SmaleOne Iota of Difference: Remembering GDR Literature as Socialist Literature - Benjamin RobinsonNotes on the ContributorsIndex

[O]ffers many insightful, detailed, and varied analyses of contemporary engagements with memory. In different ways, the contributors show how aesthetic transpositions can articulate, challenge, proclaim and question the complex and ambivalent historical event that retrospectively came to be abbreviated as the Wende. Particularly noteworthy works by artists such as Tellkamp, Brussig, Schulz, Liebmann, and Dresen are discussed by different scholars and with different methodological and topological premises, creating a fascinating intertextual dialogue.

Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer inGerman at the University of Liverpool. STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.

• Introduction: The Importance and Diversity of Cultural Memory in the GDR Context - George Dennis TateVisual Re-Productions of the Wende: The Role Played by Television Images in Constituting and Historicizing Political Events - Hilde HoffmannRemembering GDR Culture in Postunification Germany and Beyond - Stephen Brockmann"Das waren wir nicht!": The Image of East Germans and the GDR as a Narrative Problem after 1989 in Klaus Schlesinger's Die Sache mit Randow - Daniel Argeles"Der Schrei des Marsyas": The Mythic Voices of the Subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's Mutter Vater Roman - Arne de Winde"Der Schrei des Marsyas": The Mythic Voices of the Subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's Mutter Vater Roman - Frederik Van DamAn Early Challenge to the Construction of Cross-Border Romance in Post-1989 Film: Andreas Dresen's So schnelles geht nach Istanbul - Rosemary StottMediating Immediacy: Historicizing the GDR by Bringing It Back to Life in Postmillennial Works of Fiction - Andrea Geier"Eine Armee wie jede andere auch"? Writers and Filmmakers Remember the Nationale Volksarmee - Andrew PlowmanMatter Out of Place: Trash and Transition in Clemens Meyer's Als wir träumten - Gillian PyeAutobiographical Writing in Three Generations of a GDR Family: Christa Wolf - Annette Simon - Jana Simon - Wolfgang EmmerichAccursed Progenitors? Extending the Generation-Gap Debate to GDR Parents - Astrid KoehlerParallels and Divergences in Post-1989 Memory Discourse: A Comparative Review of the Slovak Experience - Nadezda ZemanikovaDances of Death: A Last Literature from the GDR - Karen Leeder"Die Gegenwart war es nicht": Irina Liebmann and the Post-Wende Uncanny - Catherine SmaleOne Iota of Difference: Remembering GDR Literature as Socialist Literature - Benjamin RobinsonNotes on the ContributorsIndex

[O]ffers many insightful, detailed, and varied analyses of contemporary engagements with memory. In different ways, the contributors show how aesthetic transpositions can articulate, challenge, proclaim and question the complex and ambivalent historical event that retrospectively came to be abbreviated as the Wende. Particularly noteworthy works by artists such as Tellkamp, Brussig, Schulz, Liebmann, and Dresen are discussed by different scholars and with different methodological and topological premises, creating a fascinating intertextual dialogue.

Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer inGerman at the University of Liverpool. STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.

• Introduction: The Importance and Diversity of Cultural Memory in the GDR Context - George Dennis TateVisual Re-Productions of the Wende: The Role Played by Television Images in Constituting and Historicizing Political Events - Hilde HoffmannRemembering GDR Culture in Postunification Germany and Beyond - Stephen Brockmann"Das waren wir nicht!": The Image of East Germans and the GDR as a Narrative Problem after 1989 in Klaus Schlesinger's Die Sache mit Randow - Daniel Argeles"Der Schrei des Marsyas": The Mythic Voices of the Subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's Mutter Vater Roman - Arne de Winde"Der Schrei des Marsyas": The Mythic Voices of the Subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's Mutter Vater Roman - Frederik Van DamAn Early Challenge to the Construction of Cross-Border Romance in Post-1989 Film: Andreas Dresen's So schnelles geht nach Istanbul - Rosemary StottMediating Immediacy: Historicizing the GDR by Bringing It Back to Life in Postmillennial Works of Fiction - Andrea Geier"Eine Armee wie jede andere auch"? Writers and Filmmakers Remember the Nationale Volksarmee - Andrew PlowmanMatter Out of Place: Trash and Transition in Clemens Meyer's Als wir träumten - Gillian PyeAutobiographical Writing in Three Generations of a GDR Family: Christa Wolf - Annette Simon - Jana Simon - Wolfgang EmmerichAccursed Progenitors? Extending the Generation-Gap Debate to GDR Parents - Astrid KoehlerParallels and Divergences in Post-1989 Memory Discourse: A Comparative Review of the Slovak Experience - Nadezda ZemanikovaDances of Death: A Last Literature from the GDR - Karen Leeder"Die Gegenwart war es nicht": Irina Liebmann and the Post-Wende Uncanny - Catherine SmaleOne Iota of Difference: Remembering GDR Literature as Socialist Literature - Benjamin RobinsonNotes on the ContributorsIndex

[O]ffers many insightful, detailed, and varied analyses of contemporary engagements with memory. In different ways, the contributors show how aesthetic transpositions can articulate, challenge, proclaim and question the complex and ambivalent historical event that retrospectively came to be abbreviated as the Wende. Particularly noteworthy works by artists such as Tellkamp, Brussig, Schulz, Liebmann, and Dresen are discussed by different scholars and with different methodological and topological premises, creating a fascinating intertextual dialogue.