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.

Illustrations

Introduction
Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek

PART I: CONTESTING GENTRIFICATION: SUBCULTURE TO MAINSTREAM

Chapter 1. Cultural History of Post-Wall Berlin: From Utopian Longing to Nostalgia for Babylon
Katrina Sark

Chapter 2. Taking a Walk on the Wild Side: Berlin and Christiane F.'s Second Life
Susan Ingram

Chapter 3. Representations and Interpretations of "The New Berlin" in Contemporary German Comics
Lynn Marie Kutch

PART II: SPACES, MONUMENTS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF HISTORY

Chapter 4. Reconfiguring the Spaces of the "Creative Class" in Contemporary Berlin
Simon Ward

Chapter 5. Negotiating Cold War Legacies: The Discursive Ambiguity of Berlin's Memory Sites
Stefanie Eisenhuth and Scott H. Krause

Chapter 6. Branding the New Germany-The Brandenburg Gate and a New Kind of German Historical Amnesia
Sarah Pogoda and Rüdiger Traxler

Chapter 7. Disappearing History: Challenges of Imagining Berlin after 1989
Ayse N. Erek and Eszter Gantner

PART III: RE-IMAGINING INTEGRATION

Chapter 8. Governing through "Ethnic Entrepreneurship"
Baris Ülker

Chapter 9. Resisting Integration: Neukölln Artist Responses to Integration Politics
Johanna Schuster-Craig

Chapter 10. The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary Berlin
Hila Amit

Chapter 11. Berlin's International Literature Festival: Globalizing the Bildungsbürger
Marike Janzen

PART IV: BERLIN MEMORYSCAPES OF THE PRESENT

Chapter 12. Transnational Cityscapes: Tracking Turkish-German Hi/Stories in Postwar Berlin
Christiane Steckenbiller

Chapter 13. Israeli Jews in the New Berlin: From Shoah Memories to Middle Eastern Encounters
Hadas Cohen and Dani Kranz

Chapter 14. Through the Eyes of Angels and Vampires: Berlin Ruins in Wings of Desire and We Are the Night
Peter Gölz

Chapter 15. The Uncanny City: Berlin in International Film
Andre Schütze

Index