Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture (EPDF) von Jill Twark

Explores how contemporary German-language literary, dramatic, filmic, musical, and street artists are grappling in their works with social-justice issues that affect Germany and the wider world.

Introduction - Jill Twark and Axel Hildebrandt
On Potatoes, Forgeries, Mistaken Identities, and Cultural Revolution in Uwe Timm's Postwall NovelJohannisnacht - Deborah Janson
"Maybe the Genuine Utopia": Uwe Timm's Vision of a "Postsocialist" Society in the NovelRot - Monika Albrecht
Social Injustice in the GermanTatort Television Series - Alexandra Simon López
Die Toten Hosen, Rammstein, Azad, and Massiv: German Rock and Rap Go Global for Social Justice - Jill Twark
Die Toten Hosen, Rammstein, Azad, and Massiv: German Rock and Rap Go Global for Social Justice - Patricia Anne Simpson
Critical Voices from the Underground: Street Art and Urban Transformation in Berlin - Bastian Heinsohn
Politics andPrekariat in Christoph Hein's NovelsFrau Paula Trousseau andWeiskerns Nachlass - Axel Hildebrandt
"Erzählt ist erzählt": The Ethics of Narration in Christa Wolf'sStadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud - Robert Blankenship
Social Consciousness in the Bionade-Biedermeier: An Interview with Filmmakers Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke - Laurel Cohen Pfister
Through Performance to Social Justice: Schlingensief's Narcissistic Sociality - Jack Davis
The Postdramatic Paradox: Theater as an Interventionist Medium in Falk Richter'sDas System - Ralf Remshardt
Settling in Mobility: Socioeconomic Justice and European Borderlands in Hans-Christian Schmid's FilmsLichter andDie wundersame Welt der Waschkraft - Maria Stehle
The Ethics of Listening in Dana Ranga's Wasserbuch and Terézia Mora'sDas Ungeheuer - Olaf Berwald
Navid Kermani: Advocate for an Antipatriotic Patriotism and a Multireligious, Multicultural Europe - Karolin Machtans