The power of intellectuals in contemporary Germany

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Machine generated contents note: MICHAEL GEYER -- Introduction: The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany -- PART 1 -- Intellectuals and the Politics of Culture in the German Democratic Republic -- DIETRICH HOHMANN -- An Attempt at an Exemplary Report on H. FRANK TROMMLER -- German Intellectuals: Public Roles and the Rise of the Therapeutic -- DOROTHE DORNHOF -- The Inconsequence of Doubt: Intellectuals and the Discourse on Socialist Unity -- SIMONE BARCK, MARTIN A LANGERMANN, -- AND SIEGFRIED LOKATIS -- The German Democratic Republic as a "Reading Nation": Utopia, Planning, Reality, and Ideology -- KATIE TRUMPENER -- La guerre est finie: New Waves, Historical Contingency, and the GDR "Rabbit Films" -- DRVID BATHRICK -- Language and Power -- PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON -- Syntax of Surveillance: Languages of Silence and Solidarity -- LOREN KRUGER -- Wir treten aus unseren Rollen heraus: Theater Intellectuals and Public Spheres -- ALEXRNDER KLUGE -- It is a Mistake to Think That the Dead Are Dead: Obituary for Heiner Miiller -- PART 2 -- Intellectuals in Transit: Toward a Unified Germany -- DIETRICH HOHMANN -- The Consequences of Unification According to H. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON -- Soundtracks: GDR Music from "Revolution" to "Reunification" -- ANDREAS GRAF -- Media Publics in the GDR: Unification and the Transformation of the Media, 1989-1991 -- KONRA D JARAUSCH -- The Double Disappointment: Revolution, Unification, and German Intellectuals -- MITCHELL G. ASH -- Becoming Normal, Modern, and German (Again?) -- ANDREAS HUYSSEN -- Nation, Race, and Immigration: German Identities After Unification -- JOHN BORNEMAN -- Education After the Cold War: Remembrance, Repetition, and Right- -- Wing Violence -- MICHAEL GEYER -- The Long Good-bye: German Culture Wars in the Nineties -- RLEXANDER KLUGE -- The Moment of Tragic Recognition with a Happy Ending