Remembering and Rethinking the GDR: Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities

Exploring the ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, this volume asks how memory of the former state continues to shape contemporary Germany. Its contributors offer multiple perspectives on the GDR and offer new insights into the complex relationship between past and present.

About the Author

MARK ALLINSON Senior Lecturer in German History at the University of Bristol, UK SILKE ARNOLD-DE SIMINE Lecturer in German Studies in the Department of European Cultures and Languages, Birkbeck, University of London, UK OWEN EVANS Senior Lecturer in Film and Television in the Media Department at Edge Hill University, UK ANSELMA GALLINAT Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University, UK ELKE GILSON Postdoctoral Fellow of the Flemish Research Fund attached to the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University, Netherlands PATRICIA HOGWOOD Reader in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, UK CLAIRE HYLAND Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK SARA JONES Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK ALEXANDRA KAISER Cultural anthropologist and works for museums ELAINE KELLY Lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh, UK GABRIELE MUELLER Associate Professor of German Studies at York University, UK CHLOE PAVER Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Exeter, UK SUSANNAH RADSTONE Professor in the School of Arts and Dgtl Industries at the University of East London, UK JOANNE SAYNER Lecturer in Cultural Theory and German Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK