A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlins cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decades preceding reunification and thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlins identities. German historians, art historians, architectural historians, and literary and cultural studies scholars explore the divisions and antagonisms that defined East and West Berlin; and by tracing the little studied similarities and extensive exchanges that occurred despite the presence of the Berlin Wall, they present an indispensible study on the politics and culture of the Cold War.

Sabine Hake is the Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of six books, includingTopographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin(2008) andScreen Nazis: Cinema, History, and Democracy (2012), and has published numerous articles and edited volumes on German film and Weimar culture.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments

IntroductionPhilip Broadbent andSabine Hake

PART I: COLD WAR BEGINNINGS

Chapter 1. Life Among the Ruins: Sex, Space, and Subculture in Zero Hour BerlinJennifer Evans

Chapter 2. The Propagandistic Role of Modern Art in Postwar BerlinMaike Steinkamp

Chapter 3. Back to the Future: New Musics Revival and Redefinition in Occupied BerlinElizabeth Janik

Chapter 4. The Nylon Curtain: Architectural Unification in Divided BerlinGreg Castillo

Chapter 5. Mediascape and Soundscape: Two Landscapes of Modernity in Cold War BerlinHeiner Stahl

PART II: EAST BERLIN, THE SOCIALIST CAPITAL

Chapter 6. Painting the Berlin Wall in Leipzig: The Politics of Art in 1960s East GermanyApril Eisman

Chapter 7. You Have to Draw a Line Somewhere: Tropes of Division in DEFA Films from the early 1960sMariana Ivanova

Chapter 8. Building the East German Television TowerHeather Gumbert

Chapter 9. Transparency in Divided Berlin: The Palace of the RepublicDeborah Ascher Barnstone

PART III: WEST BERLIN, SHOWCASE OF THE WEST

Chapter 10. I Still Have a Suitcase in Berlin: Hildegard Knefs Cold War MoviesUlrich Bach

Chapter 11. Benno Ohnesorg, Rudi Dutschke, and the Student Movement in West Berlin: Critical Reflections after Forty YearsDavid Barclay

Chapter 12. Berlin and Post-Meinhof Feminism: Yvonne RainersJourneys from Berlin/1971Claudia Mesch

Chapter 13. Daniel Libeskinds Jewish Museum in Berlin as a Cold War ProjectPaul Jaskot

Chapter 14. Beyond the Berlin Myth: the Local, the Global and IBA 87Emily Pugh

PART IV: BERLIN AFTER UNIFICATION: LOOKING BACK AND BEYOND

Chapter 15. Stereographic City: Berlin Photography in the Wende EraMiriam Paeslack

Chapter 16. Divided City, Divided Heaven? Berlin Border Crossings in Post-WendeFictionLyn Marven

Chapter 17. Interview with Barbara Hoidn

Notes on Contributors Index