Exhibiting the German Past

Peter M. McIsaac is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Museum Studies Program at the University of Michigan. Gabriele Mueller is an associate professor of German Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.

Introduction (Peter M. McIsaac and Gabriele Mueller)


1. The “Museal Gaze” and “Civic Seeing”: City, Film and Museum in Wim Wenders’ Der Himmel über Berlin (Simon Ward)


2. Refracted Memory: Museums, Film, and Visual Culture in Urban Space (Mark W. Rectanus)


3. Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Unser täglich Brot: Preservation, the Food Industry, and the Interrogation of Visual Evidence (Alice Kuzniar)


4. The Concealed Curator: Constructed Authenticity in Uli Edel’s Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex (Catriona Firth)


5. Remembering and Historicizing Socialism: The Private and Amateur Musealization of East Germany’s Everyday Life (Anne Winkler)


6. Object Lessons: Visuality and Tactility in Museums of the Socialist Everyday (Jonathan Bach)


7. Historical Museum Meets Docu-Drama: The Recipient’s Experiential Involvement in the Second World War (Stephan Jaeger)


8. Between Education and Entertainment: Visual Musealizations of the Nazi Past in Harlan—Im Schatten von Jud Süß (2008) & Jud Süß—Film ohne Gewissen (2009/2010) (Annika Orich and Florentine Strzelczyk)


9. Moving Statues: Arthur Grimm, The “Entartete Kunst” Exhibition, and Installation Photography as Standfotografie (Kathryn M. Floyd)


10. “In a Hundred Years of Cinema ...”: History and Musealization in Harun Farocki’s Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik in elf Jahrzehnten (Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades, 2006) (Christine Sprengler)


11. Sex on Display: Sexual Science and the Exhibition PopSex! (Michael Thomas Taylor and Annette F. Timm)


12. Spaces in Motion and Cinematic Experiences: The Permanent Exhibition Film of the Deutsche Kinemathek—Museum für Film und Fernsehen (Museum for Film and Television) (Peter Mänz)