Berlin, Divided Heaven: From the Ice Age to the Thaw
Touring Film Series

Selected Bibliography

Berg-Ganschow, Uta, et al. Film, Stadt, Kino, Berlin. Berlin: Argon, 1987.

Glass, Peter. Kino ist Mehr als Film: Die Jahre 1976-1990. Berlin: AG Verlag, 1999.

Jacobsen, Wolfgang, and Volker Noth. Berlin im Film: Die Stadt, Die Menschen. Berlin: Argon, 1998.

Krieger, Martin Theo. “Finding a Home in Berlin.“ (1986) West German Filmmakers on Film: Visions and Voices. Eric Rentschler, ed. New York, 1988. 146-148.

Doud, David Tieman. Berlin 2000. The Center of Europe. Lanham, Maryland and London: University Press of America, 1995.

Howard, Marc. “An East German Ethnicity? Understanding the New Division of Unified Germany.” German Politics and Society 13.4 (Winter 1995): 49-70.

Jarausch, Konrad H., ed. After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1997.

Silberman, Marc. "Post-Wall Documentaries: New Images from a New Germany?" Cinema Journal 33.2 (Winter 1994): 22-41.

Simpson, Patricia A, guest ed. Gegenwartsbewältigung: The GDR After the Wende. Special Issue of Michigan Germanic Studies 21.1/2 (Spring/Fall, 1995).

Stern, Susan, ed. Meet United Germany: Handbook 1992 / 93. Frankfurt: Atlantik-Brücke, 1992.

Strom, Elizabeth and Margit Meyer. “The New Berlin.” German Politics and Society 16.4 (Winter 1998): 122-139.

Watson, Alan. The Germans: Who Are They Now? 2nd ed. London: Mandarin, 1995.

General sources on the city of Berlin

Armstrong, Anne. Berliners: Both Sides of the Wall. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1973.

Becker-Cantarino, Barbara, ed. Berlin in Focus. Cultural Transformations in Germany. Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger, 1996.

Buford, Bill, ed. New Europe! New York: Viking Penguin, 1990.

Garden, Nancy. Berlin: City Split in Two. New York: Putnam, 1971.

McAdams, A. James. East Germany and Detente: Building Authority after the Wall. Soviet and East European Studies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Merritt, Richard L., and Anna J. Merritt. Living with the Wall: West Berlin, 1961-1985. Duke Press Policy Studies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1985.

Richie, Alexandra. Faust’s Metropolis. A History of Berlin. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1998.

Blunk, Harry. “The Concept of ‘Heimat-GDR’ in DEFA Feature Films.” DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. Seán Allan and John Sandford, eds. New York: Berghahn, 1999. 204-221.

Elkins, T. H., and B. Hofmeister. Berlin. The Spatial Structure of a Divided City. London and New York: Methuen, 1988.

Häußermann, Hartmut. “Capitalist Futures and Socialist Legacies: Urban Development in East Germany Since 1990.” German Politics and Society 49.16.4 (Winter 1998): 87-102.

Ladd, Brian. The Ghosts of Berlin. Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Texts relating to the Wende and after

Alter, Nora. "Marcel Ophuls' November Days." Film Quarterly 51.2 (Winter 1997/98): 32-43.

- - - . "Re/fusing Past and Present: Cinematic Reunification under the Sign of Nationalism and Racism: Helke Misselwitz's Herzsprung." Beyond 1989: Re-reading German Literary History Since 1945. Keith Bullivant, ed. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1997. 129-152.

- - - . "Staging Re/Unification: For and By the West." History of European Ideas. Sashat Talmor, ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.

Borneman, John. After the Wall. East meets West in the New Berlin. BasicBooks, 1991.

Brady, Martin, and Helen Hughes. “German Film After the Wende.” The New Germany: Social, Political and Cultural Challenges of Unification. Derek Lewis and John R. P. McKenzie, eds. Exeter, 1995. 279-85.

Buford, Bill, ed. New Europe! New York: Viking Penguin, 1990.

Byg, Barton. "German Unification and the Cinema of the Former German Democratic Republic.” Michigan Germanic Studies 21.1-2 (Spring/Fall, 1995): 150-168.

- - - . "Study of GDR Cinema after 1989: Reflections and Prospects." GDR Bulletin 19.1 (Spring 1993): 1-4.

Franz, Karen Annette. “Imagining the Nation: Representation and Identity in German Film and Television since Unification--Visual Analysis of East German Documentaries from 1989 to 1994.” Diss. University of Minnesota, March 1996.

Hanel, Walter, Susan Stern, and James G. Neuger, eds. Off the Wall: A Wacky History of Germany since 1989. Frankfurt: Atlantik-Brücke, 1993.

Huelshoff, Michael G., Andrei S. Markovits, and Simon Reich, eds. From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland: German Politics after Unification. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1993.

Hughes, Helen. “Documenting the Wende: The Films of Andreas Voigt.” DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. Seán Allan and John Sandford, eds. New York: Berghahn, 1999. 283-301.

Jarausch, Konrad H., ed. After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1997.

Naughton, Leonie. “We Were the People: Film Culture, Comedy and the Unification of Germany.” Diss. La Trobe University Australia, August 1996.

Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, and Tana Wollen, eds. After the Wall: Broadcasting in Germany. London: British Film Institute, 1991.

Parmalee, Patty Lee. "Movies Document a Turn." German Politics and Society 29 (Summer 1993): 112-133.

Philipsen, Dirk. We Were The People: Voices From East Germany’s Revolutionary Autumn of 1989. Durham: Duke UP, 1993.

Rinke, Andrea. "From Motzki to Trotzki: Representations of East and West German cultural identities on German television after unification." The New Germany: Literature and Society after Unification. Osman Durrani, et. al., eds. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995, 231-251.

Schneider, Peter. The German Comedy: Scenes of Life after the Wall. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1991.

Silberman, Marc. "Post-Wall Documentaries: New Images from a New Germany?" Cinema Journal 33.2 (Winter 1994): 22-41.

Simpson, Patricia A, guest ed. Gegenwartsbewältigung: The GDR After the Wende. Special Issue of Michigan Germanic Studies 21.1/2 (Spring/Fall, 1995).

Stern, Susan, ed. Meet United Germany: Handbook 1992 / 93. Frankfurt: Atlantik-Brücke, 1992.

International Youth and Rebel Film

Byg, Barton. "Generational Conflict and Historical Continuity in GDR Film." Framing the Past: The Historiography of German Cinema and Television. Bruce Murray and Christopher Wickham, eds. Carbondale/Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1992, 197-219.

- - - . "What Might Have Been: DEFA Films of the Past and the Future of German Cinema." Cineaste 17.4 (Summer 1990): 9-15.

Claus, Horst. “Rebels with a Cause: The Development of the Berlin Filme by Gerhard Klein and Wolfgang Kohlhaase.” DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. Seán Allan and John Sandford, eds. New York: Berghahn, 1999. 93-116.

Goulding, Daniel J., ed. Post New Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989.

Jugendbilder in den DDR-Medien. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: Bonn, 1998.

König, Ingelore, Dieter Wiedemann and Lothar Wolf, eds. Zwischen Bluejeans und Blauhemden. Jugendfilm in Ost und West. Berlin: Henschel, 1995.

Lauffer, Jürgen, Renate Röllecke and Dieter Wiedemann, eds. Jugendfilm Spezial. Aufgewachsen in getrennten Staaten. Deutsche Jugendfilme aus Ost und West – Empfehlungen und Hintergründe. Medienpädagogische Handreichung 5. Bielefeld: AJZ-Druck und Verlag, 1995.

Leonhard, Sigrun O. "Testing the Borders: East German Film Between Individualism and Social Commitment." Post New Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Daniel Goulding, ed. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989. 51-101.

Mushaben, Joyce Marie. “GDR Cinema De-/Reconstructed: An Introduction to the Forbidden Films.” GDR Bulletin. 19:1 (Spring 1993): 5-11.

Poiger, Uta G. Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. Berkeley, Los Angeles: U California Press, 2000.

Ruoff Kramer, Karen. “Representations of Work in the Forbidden DEFA Films of 1965.” DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. Seán Allan and John Sandford, eds. New York: Berghahn, 1999. 131-145.

Ryback, Timothy W. Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. New York: Oxford UP, 1990.

Soldovieri, Stefan. “Censorship and the Law: The Case of Das Kaninchen bin ich (I am the Rabbit).” DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. Seán Allan and John Sandford, eds. New York: Berghahn, 1999. 146-163.

Sylvester, Regine. "The Forbidden Films." Viewsletter: News on Midwest Media Art/A Legacy Productions' Publication 8.3 (Fall 1992).

Trumpener, Katie. “La guerre est finie: New Waves, Historical Contingency, and the GDR Kaninchenfilme.” Ms. (Forthcoming in: Cultural Authority in Contemporary Germany: Intellectual Cultures between Security Surveillance and Media Society.) Currently available in DEFA Film Criticism in English: An Anthology. University of Massachusetts Amherst, DEFA Film Library, 1999. Ms.

Anderson, Edith. Love in Exile: An American Writer's Memoir of Life in Divided Berlin. South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, 1999.

Davey, Thomas. A Generation Divided: German Children and the Berlin Wall. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987.

Joyce, Steven. “The Politics of Love: Ideology and Romance in Christa Wolf's Der geteilte Himmel.” New German Studies. 13.1 (Spring 1985) 31-49.

Meurer, Hans Joachim. “The Split Screen: Cinema and National Identity in a Divided Germany (1979-89).” Diss. University of Stirling, July 1997.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. Politics and Crime. A Continuum Book. New York: Seabury Press, 1974.

Kriminalität in den DDR-Medien. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: Bonn, 1998.

Poiger, Uta G. Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. Berkeley, Los Angeles: U California Press, 2000.

Zimmermann, Carl Wilhelm. Die Diebe in Berlin, Oder, Darstellung Ihres Entstehens, Ihrer Organisation, Ihrer Verbindungen, Ihrer Taktik, Ihrer Gewohnheiten Und Ihrer Sprache. Berlin: Arani, 1979.

Byg, Barton. "Nazism as Femme Fatale: Recuperations of Cinematic Masculinity in Post War Berlin." Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation. Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Müller, eds. Providence and London: Berghahn, 1997. 176-188.

Fehrenbach, Heide. Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity after Hitler. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Press, 1995.

Allan, Seán. “DEFA: An Historical Overview.” DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. Seán Allan and John Sandford, eds. New York: Berghahn, 1999. 1-21.

- - - , and John Sandford, eds. DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. New York: Berghahn, 1999.

Barck, Simone, Christoph Classen and Thomas Heimann. "The Fettered Media. Controlling Public Debate." Dictatorship as Experience. Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR. Ed. Konrad H. Jarausch. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 1999. 213-239.

Bock, Hans-Michael. “East Germany: The DEFA Story.” The Oxford History of World Cinema. Geoffery Nowell-Smith, ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. 627-632.

Byg, Barton. "Cinema in the German Democratic Republic." Monatshefte 82.3 (1990): 286-93.

- - - . "DEFA and the Traditions of International Cinema.” DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. Seán Allan and John Sandford, eds. New York: Berghahn, 1999. 22-41.

- - - . "GDR Cinema: An Update." Monatshefte 85.3 (Fall 1993): 274.

Feinstein, Joshua Isaac. “The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1956-1966.” Diss. Stanford University, August 1995.

Kohlhaase, Wolfgang. “DEFA: A Personal View.” DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. Seán Allan and John Sandford, eds. New York: Berghahn, 1999. 117-130.

- - - . “Some Remarks about GDR Cinema.” Studies in GDR Culture and Society, 7. Selected Papers from the Twelfth New Hampshire Symposium on the German Democratic Republic. Margy Gerber, ed. Lanham, MD: UPs of America, 1987. 1-6.

Liehm, Mira and Antonin J. Liehm. The Most Important Art: Soviet and Eastern Europe and Film After 1945. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977.

Pflaum, Hans Günther, and Hans Helmut Prinzer. Cinema in the Federal Republic of Germany: The New German Film / Origins and Present Situation / With a Section on GDR Cinema, A Handbook. Bonn: Inter Nationes, 1993.

Rosenberg, Karen. "Up Against a Wall-German Cinema Confronts a Divided Past." The Independent. (November 1991): 22-25.

Stott, Rosemary. “‘Letting the Genie out of the Bottle’: DEFA Film-Makers and Film und Fernsehen. DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. Seán Allan and John Sandford, eds. New York: Berghahn, 1999. 42-57.

Bartram, Graham and Anthony Waine, eds. Culture and Society in the GDR. GDR Monitor Special Series 2, (1984).

Krisch, Henry. The German Democratic Republic: The Search for Identity. Boulder: Westview Press, 1985.

Hell, Julia. Post-Fascist Fantasies: Psychoanalysis, History and the Literature of East Germany. Duke University Press, 1997.

McCauley, Martin. The German Democratic Republic since 1945. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.

Stephan, Alexander. “Cultural Politics in the GDR under Erich Honecker.” The GDR under Honecker 1971-1981. GDR Monitor Special Series 1. Ian Wallace, ed. Dundee, 1981. 31-42.

That was the GDR: Part 1 / I was a Citizen of the GDR. VHS available for purchase from defaorder@german.umass.edu

That was the GDR: Part 2 / From "Zone" to State. VHS available for purchase from defaorder@german.umass.edu

That was the GDR: Part 3 / For the People's Welfare. VHS available for purchase from defaorder@german.umass.edu

That was the GDR: Part 4 / Shield and Sword. VHS available for purchase from defaorder@german.umass.edu

That was the GDR: Parts 1-4. VHS available for purchase from defaorder@german.umass.edu