Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index.
Includes filmography: pages 256-257.
Introduction: the destruction of Dresden and the excess of the real -- Visual mediations: Dresden and postwar photography and fine art -- Architectural interventions I: West and East German postwar debates -- Architectural interventions II: Dresden's Altmarkt and the topology of power -- Literary voices I: the built environment and memoryscapes in Brigitte Reimann and Uwe Tellkamp -- Literary voices II: war memories in Kurt Vonnegut, Heinz Czechowski and Durs Grünbein -- Filmic represenations: documenting resentment, grief and forgiveness