Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Karin Bauer is Professor of German Studies at McGill University and former editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Her publications include Adorno’s Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner and Everybody Talks about the Weather: We Don’t, along with numerous articles on critical theory and contemporary German literature and culture.

“In sum, Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin is an important, fresh, and invigorating addition to Berlin scholarship, and its broad interdisciplinary scope makes it a highly recommended read for researchers and students with an interest in the many facets of Germany’s capital. Most importantly, it more than lives up to its premise and provides challenging and illuminating answers for those seeking to find out about Berlin today.” • Feminist German Studies“…an indispensable resource for any scholar who works on Berlin, and any person who is interested in the changing dynamics of urban space. The collection is thoughtfully conceived, and extremely well edited, as many of the wide-ranging contributions are cross-referenced and intertextual. The footnotes offer a wealth of useful material and the chapter bibliographies combine to form a complete picture of English-language literature on Berlin, while highlighting relevant disciplinary sources.” • German Studies Review“This timely and stimulating book provides fresh insights into many issues of today’s Berlin. Its contributions have been carefully selected and aligned with one another, and their combination makes for an entirely unique approach to the topic.” • Peter McIsaac, University of Michigan

• IllustrationsIntroductionKarin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth HosekPART I: CONTESTING GENTRIFICATION: SUBCULTURE TO MAINSTREAMChapter 1. Cultural History of Post-Wall Berlin: From Utopian Longing to Nostalgia for BabylonKatrina SarkChapter 2. Taking a Walk on the Wild Side: Berlin and Christiane F.’s Second LifeSusan IngramChapter 3. Representations and Interpretations of “The New Berlin” in Contemporary German ComicsLynn Marie KutchPART II: SPACES, MONUMENTS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF HISTORYChapter 4. Reconfiguring the Spaces of the “Creative Class” in Contemporary BerlinSimon WardChapter 5. Negotiating Cold War Legacies: The Discursive Ambiguity of Berlin’s Memory Sites  Stefanie Eisenhuth and Scott H. KrauseChapter 6. Branding the New Germany—The Brandenburg Gate and a New Kind of German Historical AmnesiaSarah Pogoda and Rüdiger TraxlerChapter 7. Disappearing History: Challenges of Imagining Berlin after 1989Ayse N. Erek and Eszter GantnerPART III: RE-IMAGINING INTEGRATIONChapter 8. Governing through “Ethnic Entrepreneurship”Bariş ÜlkerChapter 9. Resisting Integration: Neukölln Artist Responses to Integration PoliticsJohanna Schuster-CraigChapter 10. The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary BerlinHila AmitChapter 11. Berlin’s International Literature Festival: Globalizing the BildungsbürgerMarike JanzenPART IV: BERLIN MEMORYSCAPES OF THE PRESENTChapter 12. Transnational Cityscapes: Tracking Turkish-German Hi/Stories in Postwar BerlinChristiane SteckenbillerChapter 13. Israeli Jews in the New Berlin: From Shoah Memories to Middle Eastern EncountersHadas Cohen and Dani KranzChapter 14. Through the Eyes of Angels and Vampires: Berlin Ruins in Wings of Desire and We Are the NightPeter GölzChapter 15. The Uncanny City: Berlin in International FilmAndre SchützeIndex