The GDR Tomorrow Rethinking the East German Legacy

Contents: Elizabeth Emery, Matthew Hines, and Evelyn Preuss: Introduction: The GDR Tomorrow – The East German Project and its Democratic (Dis)Contents – GDR without Borders: Transnational Perspectives – George Gibson:
Briefe ohne Unterschrift
: Transnational Identity in the GDR – Yundi Guo: Butterfly over the Wall: Herz’s
Madam Butterfly
(1978) and Its Journey from the Komische Oper to the Welsh National Opera – German Democratic Aesthetics: Co-Authorship and Subversive Audiences – Matthew Hines: A «Productive» Alternative to Socialist Realism in Peter Hacks and Heiner Müller – Anja Thiele: Twofold Testimonies: Jewish Memory of the Holocaust in GDR Fiction – Evelyn Preuss: Hollywood behind the Wall? (Dis)Continuities between
Love Story
(1970) and
Die Legende von Paul und Paula
(1973) – «To Be Continued»: The GDR’s Memory Tomorrow – Beyond 1989: Law and the Instrumentality of the Past – Philipp Ebert: Socialist State Crime, Transitional Justice, and the Question of Individual Responsibility in Germany, 1984–1992 – Alexander D. Brown: Paul Merker: «Ein Moment kommunistischer Ungleichzeitigkeit»? –
(N)Ostalgie
: Future as History – History as Future? – Elizabeth Emery: «Wenn die Zeit endlos wär, so wie Sand am Meer … Wünsch ich mir ein Stück davon jetzt zurück»:
(N)Ostalgie
in East German Popular Music – Anandita Bajpai: Objects of Love: Remembering Radio Berlin International in India – Elizabeth Emery, Matthew Hines, and Evelyn Preuss: Conclusion: GDR Studies Today and Tomorrow.