Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture

Jill E. Twark, Axel Hildebrandt

Introduction - Jill Twark and Axel Hildebrandt On Potatoes, Forgeries, Mistaken Identities, and Cultural Revolution in Uwe Timm's Postwall Novel Johannisnacht - Deborah Janson "Maybe the Genuine Utopia": Uwe Timm's Vision of a "Postsocialist" Society in the Novel Rot - Monika Albrecht Social Injustice in the German Tatort Television Series - Alexandra Simon López Die Toten Hosen, Rammstein, Azad, and Massiv: German Rock and Rap Go Global for Social Justice - Jill Twark Die Toten Hosen, Rammstein, Azad, and Massiv: German Rock and Rap Go Global for Social Justice - Patricia Anne Simpson Critical Voices from the Underground: Street Art and Urban Transformation in Berlin - Bastian Heinsohn Politics and Prekariat in Christoph Hein's Novels Frau Paula Trousseau and Weiskerns Nachlass - Axel Hildebrandt "Erzählt ist erzählt": The Ethics of Narration in Christa Wolf's Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud - Robert Blankenship Social Consciousness in the Bionade-Biedermeier: An Interview with Filmmakers Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke - Laurel Cohen Pfister Through Performance to Social Justice: Schlingensief's Narcissistic Sociality - Jack Davis The Postdramatic Paradox: Theater as an Interventionist Medium in Falk Richter's Das System - Ralf Remshardt Settling in Mobility: Socioeconomic Justice and European Borderlands in Hans-Christian Schmid's Films Lichter and Die wundersame Welt der Waschkraft - Maria Stehle The Ethics of Listening in Dana Ranga's Wasserbuch and Terézia Mora's Das Ungeheuer - Olaf Berwald Navid Kermani: Advocate for an Antipatriotic Patriotism and a Multireligious, Multicultural Europe - Karolin Machtans