[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.
MODERNISM/MODERNITY
[E]xcellent.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES
[S]ucceeds admirably in its laudable aim: to show both the GDR and the events of 1989/90 have provoked different memories. In this way it provides a wider warning against taking a simplistic view of complex events.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES