Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-x

Acknowledgments

pp xi-xiv

List of Abbreviations and Terms

pp xv-xvi

Introduction: Making History ReVisible

pp 1-8

Part I - Sketching DEFA’s Past and Present

pp 9-10

1 - Thoughts for Indiana

pp 11-12

2 - Not a Bad Heritage: An Interview with Andreas Dresen

pp 13-23

3 - Spectral Images in the Afterlife of GDR Cinema

pp 24-48

Part II - Film in the Face of the Wende

pp 49-50

4 - The Wende in Film

pp 51-57

5 - Between Times: My Experience as a Director during the Wende

pp 58-68

6 - “Look, People, Look!”: An Interview with Eduard Schreiber

pp 69-74

7 - The Theatricality of “Shard Films”: An Interview with Jörg Foth

pp 75-79

8 - Competing Archives: Intertextuality and Wende Narrative in the “Last Films from East Germany”

pp 80-99

9 - The State of Being Done: Film at the End of the Second World

pp 100-120

Part III - Migrating DEFA to the FRG

pp 121-122

10 - Cinema after the GDR’s Downfall: The Story of Ö-Film

pp 123-130

11 - When Berlin-Brandenburg Met Kommerz-Keil: An Interview with Klaus Keil

pp 131-137

12 - Performing the GDR: The Last DEFA Generation and the Tradition of Theatricality

pp 138-153

13 - Surveillance States: Structures of Conspiracy in Wende Cinema

pp 154-173

14 - Cleansing the System: East German Cinema Repurposed

pp 174-190

Part IV - Archive and Audience

pp 191-192

15 - Historical Archaeology: Curating the Wende Flicks Series

pp 193-202

16 - The DEFA Foundation, 2010: Rediscover the Past—Support the Future

pp 203-209

17 - Activating an Archive of Inner Perspectives: Political Education with DEFA Films

pp 210-216

Part V - Reception Materials

pp 217-218

18 - Vorspiel (1987)

pp 219-222

19 - flüstern & SCHREIEN (1988)

pp 223-228