Divided, But Not Disconnected

Tobias Hochscherf is Professor of Audio-Visual Media at the University of Applied Sciences at Kiel, Germany. His research interests focus on European film and television cultures. He is author of The Continental Connection: German-speaking Émigrés and British Cinema, 1927-45 (Manchester UP, 2011) and has published widely in academic journals and edited collections.

“[A] timely and important contribution to the current scholarship on the Cold War and the critical reassessment of Cold War history within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational framework…The editors are to be commended for promoting a comparative perspective in the individual essays themselves and through the thoughtful selection of topics from East and West German perspectives.”  ·  Sabine Hake, University of Texas, Austin

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionTobias Hochscherf, Christoph Laucht and Andrew PlowmanChapter 1. Divided, but not Disconnected: Germany as a Border Region of the Cold WarThomas LindenbergerChapter 2. Fighting the First World War in the Cold War: East and West German Historiography on the Origins of the First World War, 1949-61Matthew StibbeChapter 3. Divided Memory of the Holocaust during the Cold WarBill NivenChapter 4. Commemorating Luther: Contested Memories and the Cold WarJon Berndt OlsenChapter 5. The Third World Origins of the Consensual Turn: West German Labor Internationalism and the Cold WarQuinn SlobodianChapter 6. The German Question and Polish-East German Relations, 1945-1962Sheldon AndersonChapter 7. From Bulwark of Peace to Cosmopolitan Cocktails: Marketing West Berlin as a Cold War Showcase from the 1960s to the 1970sMichelle A. StandleyChapter 8. Projections of History: East German Film-Makers and the Berlin WallSéan AllanChapter 9. Defending the Border? Satirical Treatments of the Bundeswehr after the 1960sAndrew PlowmanChapter 10. East versus West: Olympic Sport as a German Cold War PhenomenonChristopher YoungChapter 11. Glimpses through the Iron Curtain: German Feature Film Import into the G.D.R.Rosemary StottChapter 12. Visual Representation, the Male Hero, and the Transfer of Images in the Cold WarInge MarszolekChapter 13. Re-enacting the First Battle of the Cold War: Post-Wall German Television Confronts the Berlin Airlift in Die Luftbrücke – Nur der Himmel war freiTobias Hochscherf and Christoph LauchtChapter 14. Unusual Censor Readings: G.D.R. Science Fiction and the Ministry of CulturePatrick MajorChapter 15. Funerals in Berlin: The Geopolitical and Cultural Spaces of the Cold WarJames ChapmanSelect BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex