Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on the other, it haunts the imagination in complex and often surprising ways

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KATHARINA GERSTENBERGER ****Professor and Head of the Department of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati, USA.
JANA EVANS BRAZIEL ****Faculty Chair of The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati, USA.

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Sex and the City: German Culture in World Culture Twenty Years After; S.L.Gilman From the Berlin Wall to the West Bank Barrier: How Material Culture is Used in Psychological Theory; C.Leuenberger Exploring Master Keaton's Germany: A Japanese Perspective on the End of the Cold War; S.Granville Ending Cold War Divisions and Establishing New Partnerships: German Unification and the Transformation of German-Polish Relations; J.Murphy The Counterrevolution in Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War; R.Snyder & T.White 'Seventh of November' from Berliner Ensemble; D.Cowie 'There was no Time for Shame': The Politics of Shame and the State; D.Elam The 'Wall in the Mind' and Nostalgia for Separation in Reunified Germany; P.Kubicek Specters of Work: Literature and Labor in Post-Socialist Germany; H.Bivens A New Era, or a Lost Wager?; B.Robinson After the Fall of the Wall: German Visual Culture in the New Europe; A.Dempsey History in Context: The Spreebogen and Das Haus Am Werderschen Markt in the Context of the Architectural Debates; C.A.Costabile Heming Architectural Polemics from Berlin to Beijing; D.Purdy Berlin Wall Installations in the United States; R.Schade