Andreas Dresen

Contents: Julian Preece: Introduction - Julian Preece/Andreas Dresen: «Every time a film gets made, an amazing miracle has occurred»: Interview with Andreas Dresen - Andreas Dresen: Der falsche Kino-Osten / The Wrong Eastern Cinema - Julian Preece: Self-Reflexivity and Films within Films: From Stilles Land (1992) to Whisky mit Vodka (2009) via Halbe Treppe (2002) and Sommer vorm Balkon (2005) - Reinhild Steingröver: Alternative GDR History in Raus aus der Haut (1997) - Stephen Brockmann: Shaping the Nation and the New Capital on the Eve of the Millennium: Nachtgestalten (1999) - Rosemary Stott: Exploring the East German Past and the DEFA Film Legacy in Die Polizistin (2000) - Helen Hughes: Coming to Terms with the Present: Andreas Dresen's Wichmann Films (2003/2012) - Jean E. Conacher: Women at Work: Reflections on Social Identity and the Private Self in Die Polizistin (2000), Willenbrock (2005) and Steigerlied (2013) - Brigid Haines: Connecting with the Real: Death, Dying and Displacement in Andreas Dresen's Halt auf freier Strecke (2011) and Michael Haneke's Amour (2012) - Julian Preece: Visions of the Wende in Adaptations of Contemporary Fiction by Jurek Becker, Christoph Hein and Clemens Meyer - Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien: Lost at Home: Als wir träumten (2015), Liminal Space and GDR Cinema Tradition.