German Memory Contests

Anne Fuchs is professor of modern German literature and culture at University College Dublin.

Essays shedding light on the increasingly open cultural debate on the German past.

Introduction: Germany's Memory Contests and the Management of the Past - Mary Cosgrove and Anne FuchsWhat Exactly Is Vergangenheitsbewältigung? Narrative and Its Insufficiency in Postwar Germany - Peter FritzscheThe Tinderbox of Memory: Generation and Masculinity in Väterliteratur by Cristoph Meckel, Uwe Timm, Dagmar Leupold, and Ulla HahnDagmar Leupold, and Ulla Hahn - Anne FuchsTelling It How It Wasn't: Familial Allegories of Wish-Fulfillment in Postunification Germany - Elizabeth BoaBeing Translated: Exile, Childhood, and Multilingualism in G.-A. Goldschmidt and W. G. Sebald - Stefan Willer"Ein Stück langweiliger als die Wehrmachtsausstellung, aber dafür repräsentativer": The Exhibition Fotofeldpost as Riposte to the "Wehrmacht Exhibition"Exhibition" - Chloe PaverGerman Crossroads: Visions of the Past in German Cinema after Reunification - Matthias FiedlerMonika Maron's Pawels Briefe: Photography, Narrative, and the Claims of Postmemory - Jonathan LongImagined Identities: Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors in Literature - Dagmar C. G. LorenzOf Stories and Histories: Golem Figures in Post-1989 German and Austrian Culture - Cathy GelbinMulti-Ethnicity and Cultural Identity: Afro-German Women Writers' Struggle for Identity in Post-Unification GermanyGermany - Jennifer E. MichaelsThe Anxiety of German Influence: Affiliation, Rejection, and Jewish Identity in W. G. Sebald's Work - Mary CosgroveBetween "Restauration" and "Nierentisch": The 1950s in Ludwig Harig, F. C. Delius, and Thomas Hettche - Andrew PlowmanOn Forgetting and Remembering: The New Right since German Unification - Roger Woods