Frackman presents readers with a study of identity and otherness as expressed in nineteenth and twentieth century German-language literature and film. The author has organized the main body of his tex
The cinema of the German Democratic Republic, that is, the cinema of its state-run studio DEFA, portrayed gender and sexuality in complex and contradictory ways. In doing so, it reflected the contradi
Classical music in the German Democratic Republic is commonly viewed as having functioned as an ideological support or cultural legitimization for the state, in the form of the so-called "bou
