Negotiating Nostalgia
The GDR Past in Berlin Is in Germany and Good Bye, Lenin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9854676 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer M Kapczynski (Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-100 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8890 • E-ISSN: 1930-6962 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3200/gerr.82.1.78-100 |
| OpenAlex | W2054834640 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article examines the representation of the GDR past and the treatment of Ostalgie in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! and Hannes Stöhr's Berlin Is in Germany, arguing that the films evidence a split in recent German fiction films between nostalgic constructions of the past, on the one hand, and postnational views of the present, on the other. Close readings demonstrate that these investments play out on an aesthetic as well as narrative plane. The article concludes that these two works articulate divergent conceptions of post-Wall identity, and relates them to larger trends in contemporary German cinema
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Berlin wall · Economic history · Fall of man · German · German reunification · Identity (music · Literature · Movie theater · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Representation (politics · Sociology · West germany · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |