Rev. papers from the symposia held in June 1993 and in June 1994 at the World Fellowship Center near Conway, N.H.
Includes bibliographical references.
English and German.
The special position of young, left-wing GDR intellectuals in the former Eastern bloc / Jan Faktor -- Underground journals in and around Leipzig in the 1980s / Jacques Poumet -- Pop music in the GDR between conformity and resistance / Peter Wicke -- "Nuancen und Zwischentöne" versus "muskelprotzende Prosa" : autobiography and the project of explaining "how it was" in the GDR / Roger Woods -- Die ostdeutschen Schriftseller auf der Suche nach einem neuen Selbstverständnis / Günter Erbe -- In the shadow of the rainbow : on Christoph Hein's Exekution eines Kalbes and Christa Wolf's Auf dem Weg nach Tabou / Christiane Zehl Romero -- Apocalypse now? : reading Volker Braun's Böhmen am Meer / Theodore Fiedler -- Das Literatursystem der DDR : Kontexte und Voraussetzungen einer neuen Literaturgeschichte / Ulrich Meyszies -- Buchenwald : symbol and metaphor for the changing political culture of East Germany / David A. Hackett -- East goes West / Annette Simon -- Concepts of democracy of East and West German politicians / Virginia Penrose -- The round table model : reflections on a political experiment / Lothar Probst -- The Heilmann family : social restructuring and the potential for family conflict in East Germany : a sketch / Michael Hofmann -- The renaissance of East German group awareness since unification / Thomas Koch -- The press and the new Länder / John Sandford -- The treatment of problems of integration in some recent works by authors from the former GDR / Nancy A. Lauckner -- German unification and the Sorb minority / Horst Freyhofer