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Memory of the GDR in Films Made by (West) German Authors in the First Decade of United Germany

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the memory mechanisms ob-served in West German authors’ films on the subject of theGDR, especially the turn of 1989 and 1990. It mainly con-cerns prosthetic memory constructed on the basis of me-dia coverage, and not direct participation in the events (ep-isodic memory), which was typical for film representationsof the FRG authors (including Volker Schlöndorff, HelmaSanders-Brahms, Margarethe von Trotta). Focusing on thefirst decade after the unification also gives one a chance tocapture functional memory in its rudimentary phase, as itexploits selected and permanent motifs, facts and events(oppressive everyday life of the GDR, Stasi supervision,events from the breakthrough period, particularly the fallof the Wall, the beginning of united Germany) in order toshape and legitimize identity.

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