German Division as Shared Experience

Erica Carter is Professor of German and Film at King’s College London. Her books include Béla Balázs:  Early Film Theory (2010), Dietrich’s Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film (2004) and How German is She? Postwar West German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman (1997).

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Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations



Introduction: German Division as Shared Experience

Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski and Katrin Schreiter



Chapter 1. Narrating the Everyday: Television, Memory and the Subjunctive in the GDR, 1969–89

Jan Palmowski



Chapter 2. Tension of Germanness in the Global South: German Immigrants in Namibia

Heidi Armbruster



Chapter 3. ‘Ich bin parteilich, subjektiv und emotional’: Eigensinn and the Narrative (Re)construction of Political Agency in Inge Viett’s Nie war ich furchtloser

Katharina Karcher



Chapter 4. Asymmetrical (Be)longing: Villagers, Spatial Practices and the German ‘Other’

Marcel Thomas



Chapter 5. Everyday Displacements in Cold War Berlin: Short Prose from East and West

Áine McMurtry



Chapter 6. DEFA’s ‘Home-made’ Experiment: Traces of GDR Reality and International Avant-garde Film in Jürgen Böttcher’s Transformations (1981)

Franziska Nössig



Chapter 7. Style Identities and Individualization in 1980s East and West Germany

Alissa Bellotti



Chapter 8. Cultivating the Past: The Schrebergarten as a Political Space in Postwar German Literature

Katrin Schreiter



Chapter 9. Painting in East Germany: An Elite Art for the Everyday (and Everyone)

April Eisman



Chapter 10. The Perceptual Fabric and Everyday Practices of Jazz and Pop in East and West Germany

Michael J. Schmidt



Chapter 11. Alles Geschmackssache? Shaping (Gustatory) Tastes in East and West Germany

Alice Weinreb



Conclusion

Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, and Katrin Schreiter