Totalitarianism on Screen: The Art and Politics of The Lives of Others

Contents

Contents Introduction 1 Carl Eric Scott and F. Flagg Taylor IV Part 1. Truth and Dissent 1. Post-totalitarianism in The Lives of Others 19 F. Flagg Taylor IV 2. What Is a Dissident? The Travails of the Intellectuals in The Lives of Others 35 Lauren Weiner Part 2. Art and Politics 3. Communist Moral Corruption and the Redemptive Power of Art 57 Carl Eric Scott 4. Long Day’s Journey into Brecht: The Ambivalent Politics of The Lives of Others 83 Paul A. Cantor 5. The Tragic Ambiguity, or Ambiguous Tragedy, of Christa-Maria Sieland 111 Dirk R. Johnson Part 3. The Lives of Others and Other Films 6. The Lives of Others, Good Bye Lenin! and the Power of Everydayness 137 James F. Pontuso 7. On the Impossibility of Withdrawal: Life in the Gray Zone 155 Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz Part 4. The Lives of Others and the History of the GDR 8. Fiction or Lived History? On the Question of the Credibility of The Lives of Others 171 Manfred Wilke 9. The Ghosts Are Leaving the Shadows 183 Wolf Biermann 10. Against Forgetting: A Conversation with Joachim Gauck 189 Paul Hockenos 11. East German Totalitarianism: A Warning from History 203 Peter Grieder Part 5. The Stasi in the GDR 12. The Stasi: An Overview 231 Jens Gieseke Acknowledgments 257 List of Contributors 259 Index 263 ...