AcknowledgmentsGlossary of Key Terms and Abbreviations Part I: Shifting Narratives of the Wende Introduction: Wende ohne Ende? Unfinished Narratives of Transformation Anna Saunders and Caroline Summers Chapter 1: Beyond the "Shining Moment": The Revolution of 1989 and the Making of Contemporary Germany Christina Morina Part II: Private Spaces: Life Stories in TransitionChapter 2: From Inclusion in the Late GDR to Exclusion in the Newly Unified Germany? Mozambican Labor Migrants and the Transformation of East German Migration Policy Tom Drechsel Chapter 3: Making Sense of Postsocialism and Masculinity: Homepages of East German Men in the 1990s and 2000s Lea Frese-Renner Chapter 4: Translating the Personal into the Literary: The Afterlife of East German Experience in Post-Unification Texts Caroline Summers Part III: Creative Spaces: Cultural Representations of ChangeChapter 5: Staging Violence: The Wende and its Aftermath in Recent Theater Productions Carola Hähnel-Mesnard Chapter 6: Ende ohne Wende ? The Transformationsjahre and Disgust in Manja Präkels's Als ich mit Hitler Schnapskirschen aß and Bahati Glaß's Das Geschenk meines Vaters Matthew Hines Chapter 7: Spaces and Places of Economic Transformation in Hans-Christian Schmid's Lichter , Thomas Stuber's In den Gängen , and Vanessa Jopp's Vergiss Amerika Elizabeth M. Ward Part IV: Public Spaces: Reclaiming the Wende Chapter 8: Between GDR and "Mitteldeutschland": Identity and Television in East Germany in the Early 1990s Nikolai Okunew Chapter 9: Re-Narrating Unification -Shifting Generational Perspectives on 1989/90 and its Aftermath Stephan Ehrig Chapter 10: The Long Path to Memorialization: Envisioning Leipzig's Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal Anna Saunders Notes on Contributors Index.