Contents: Helen Chambers: Introduction - Helmut Kuzmics: Violence and pacification in Norbert Elias's theory of civilization - Anne Simon: Sharp tongues and sharper swords: violence towards women in the Ritter vom Turn - Ulrike Zitzlsperger: Women's identity and authoritarian force: women pamphleteers of the German reformation - Ritchie Robertson: 'Die Menschen zu ihrem Glück zwingen': polemical and judicial violence in the Austrian enlightenment - R. H. Stephenson: Violence and aesthetic identity in Weimar classicism - Laura Martin: The Jew in the Thorn Bush : German fairy tales and anti-semitism in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Musäus, Naubert and the Grimms - Helen Chambers: Representations of colonial violence in the poetry of Theodor Fontane - Michael Boehringer: Gender, identity and the function of violence in Ferdinand von Saar's Die Troglodytin - Malcolm Humble: From 'the propaganda of the deed' to the new community: the transformation of anarchism in Germany 1880-1920 and its reflection in literature - Ingrid Sharp: Dangerous women: woman as sexual criminal in the Weimar Republic - Michael Gratzke: Fire and blood: modernization, individuation and violence in German war literature - Maggie Sargeant: Changing notions of identity: the German soldier of the Second World War - Mary Cosgrove: Bodies of violence, violated bodies: the victimized victimizer in Albert Drach's Holocaust autobiography - Clare Flanagan: Political violence and national identity in Germany 1945 and 1989 - Sarah Colvin: 'Wenn deine Identität Kampf ist': violence, gendered language and identity in the writing of Ulrike Marie Meinhof - Volker Langbehn: Deadly identity formations in Gert Heidenreich's Füchse Jagen - Henrik Pedersen: Terror on the stage: the German 'Red Army Faction' (RAF) as political performance - Rebecca Beard: 'Sticks and stones may break my bones.': the aesthetic enactment of violence in the work of Elfriede Jelinek - Petra M. Bagley: A stolen childhood: the fact and fiction of 'Schwarze Pädagogik' - Monika Shafi: Spaces of violence: on the role of home, nature and gender in narratives by Karen Duve and Felicitas Hoppe - Matthias Fiedler: Crossing the boundary of the other: identity and physical violence in Georg Klein's novel Libidissi - Christopher Jones: 'Bestialisch dahingeschlachtet': extreme violence in German crime fiction.