German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First Century

STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer inGerman at the University of Liverpool. ANNA SAUNDERS is Professor of German at the University of Liverpool. Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University. STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa. WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE is Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities and Professor of European Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Whether the Berlin Republic has achieved some form of 'normality' comparable to other European nation states or whether Germany's singularity, the 'abnormality' of its Holocaust past will persist ... is the focus of the volume's 15 chapters. ... The breadth of viewpoints can be regarded as a model of successful cultural studies.... A first-rate volume.

• Introduction - Stuart Taberner and Paul Cooke"Normalization": Has Helmut Kohl's Vision Been Realized? - Stephen BrockmannCoping with Disparity: Continuity and Discontinuity in Economic Policy since Unification - Jeremy LeamanUnderstanding Germany: The Limits of "Normalization" and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture - Sebastian HarnischUnderstanding Germany: The Limits of "Normalization" and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture - Kerry Longhurst"Normalization" through Europeanization: The Role of the Holocaust - Lothar Probst"Representing Normality": Architecture in Berlin - Simon Ward"Normalizing" the Past: East German Culture and Ostalgie - Anna SaundersNational Memory's Schlüsselkinder: Migration, Pedagogy, and German Remembrance Culture - Annette Seidel ArpaciThe Return of "Undead" History: The West German Terrorist as Vampire and the Problem of "Normalizing" the Past in Margarethe von Trotta's Die bleierne Zeit (1981) and Christian Petzold's Die innere Sicherheit (2001) - Chris Homewood"Normalizing" the "Old" Federal Republic? The FRG between 1949 and 1989 in Recent German Fiction - Andrew PlowmanReconciliation between the Generations: The Image of the Ordinary German Soldier in Dieter Wellershoff's Der Ernstfall and Ulla Hahn's Unscharfe Bilder - Helmut Schmitz"(un)sägliche Vergleiche": What Germans Remembered (and Forgot) in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s - Karoline von Oppen"Normal" as "Apolitical": Uwe Timm's Rot and Thomas Brussig's Leben bis Männer - William Collins Donahue"Narrative Normalization" and Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang - Kathrin SchodelFrom "Normalization" to Globalization. German Fiction into the New Millennium: Christian Kracht, Ingo Schulze, and Feridun Zaimogølu - Stuart TabernerAbnormal Consensus? The New Internationalism of German Cinema - Paul CookeNotes on the ContributorsIndex