Germany and Eastern Europe

YEARBOOK OF EUROPEAN STUDIES ANNUAIRE D'ETUDES EUROPEENNES 13

GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE: CULTURAL IDENTITIES AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

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edited by Keith Bullivant, Geoffrey Giles, and Walter Pape

Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA 1999

Contents KEITH BULLIVANT / GEOFFREY GILES

Introduction: Germany and Eastern Europe .

Historical Perspectives: Ethnic and Cultural Identity in the Borderlands VOLKER R. BERGHAHN

Germans and Poles, 1871-1945

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RICHARD BLANKE

When Germans and Poles Lived Together: From the History of German-Polish Relations

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ALAN E. STEINWEIS

Eastern Europe and the Notion of the "Frontier" in Germany to 1945

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DORIS L. BERGEN

The 'Volksdeutschen' ofEastern Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust: Constructed Ethnicity, Real Genocide 70^ MARTIN ANDREE AND DANIEL FULDA

Anticommunism and (West) German Identity: An Analysis of Metaphors and Concepts of History in the F.A. 2., 1949-1952 .. 94

German Literature and Eastern Europe: Changing Mentalities JURGEN LlESKOUNIG

"Branntweintrinkende Wilde" Beyond Civilization and Outside History: The Depiction of the Poles in Gustav Freytag's "Soil und Haben"

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ALICE FREIFELD

The De-Germanization of the Budapest Stage

148

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WALTER PAPE

Vita Nuova: Moscow and the German Writers

174

A N N A CAMPANILE

Landscape ofMemories: Eastern European Rooms in the Poetry and Prose of Johannes Bobrowski

200

Germany and Eastern Europe: Before and After 1989 KARLSCHLOGEL

Berlin: "Stepmother Among Russian Cities"

235

PATRICIA KOLLANDER

"Malevolent Partnership or Blatant Opportunism?"

Croat-German Relations, 1919-1941

266

THOMAS C. F O X

Imagining Eastern Europe in East German Literature

284

UWE KOREK AND JlRf STROMSfK The Contemporary Czech View of Germany and the Germans

304

HERTAMULLER In the Trap

320

BRIGID HATNES

Subjectivity (Un)Bound: Libuse Momkovd and Herta Muller

327

RUMJANA KlEFER The Image of Germany in Contemporary Bulgarian Literature

345

Notes on Contributors

361

Index of Names

367