National symbols and the German reunification / Rolf Parr -- Memory, moralism, and coming to terms with the present : Martin Walser and Zafer Şenocak / Friederike Eigler -- Father and his shadow : the Mann family in German memory after 1989 / Marc Oliver Huber -- Old men and the past : personified memories of German history after 1989 / Anne Friederike Müller -- 'wenn ein staat ins gras beisst, singen die dichter' : the Wende in poetry / Ruth J. Owen -- Wendedramen / Birgit Haas -- 'All of them signs and characters from the type-case of forgotten things'-- intermedia configurations of history in W. G. Sebald / Bernhard Malkmus -- Memory, musealization and alternative history in Michael Kleeberg's novel Ein Garten im Norden and Wolfgang Becker's film Good bye, Lenin! / Andreas Böhn -- Vanishing acts and virtual reconstructions : technologies of memory and the afterlife of the GDR / Jonathan Bach -- Material, image, sign : on the value of memory traces in public space / Simon Ward -- `Imprisoned, murdered, besmirched' : the controversy concerning Berlin's Ernst Thälmann Monument and German national identity, 1990-1995 / Russel Lemmons