Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Whither Autobiography? The Difficulties of Saying “I” in the German Context

pp 1-34

I - The Geographies of Self-Inscription

pp 35-36

1 - “If People Want to Oppress You, They Make You Say ‘I’”: Hito Steyerl in Conversation

pp 37-51

2 - The Impertinence of Saying “I”: Sylvia Schedelbauer’s Personal Documentaries

pp 52-69

3 - Geography of a Swiss Body: Peter Liechti’s Hans im Glück

pp 70-86

4 - Reading Helke Misselwitz’s Winter Adé as Multivocal Autobiography

pp 87-108

II - Subalterities of Gender, Race, and Nation

pp 109-110

5 - How Does It Feel to Be Foreign? Negotiating German Belonging and Transnational Asianness in Experimental Video

pp 111-136

6 - Frankfurt Canteen: Eva Heldmann’s fremd gehen. Gespräche mit meiner Freundin

pp 137-170

III - Our Parents, Our Selves: Families Framed by History

pp 171-172

7 - Mediated Memories of Migration and the National Visual Archive: Fatih Akın’s Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren

pp 173-193

8 - History Runs through the Family: Framing the Nazi Past in Recent Autobiographical Documentary

pp 194-209

9 - Clearing Out Family History: Thomas Haemmerli’s Sieben Mulden und eine Leiche

pp 210-232

IV - Revisiting Authorship in New German Cinema

pp 233-234

10 - Reauthoring the Self: Brinkmann’s Zorn

pp 235-254

11 - From Death to Life: Wim Wenders, Autobiography, and the Natural History of Cinema

pp 255-276

12 - “Ich bin’s, Fassbinder,” or The Timing of the Self

pp 277-296

Filmography

pp 297-306

Bibliography

pp 307-326

Notes on the Contributors

pp 327-330

Index

pp 331-342