The first major study of the contemporary German debate over "normalization" and its impact across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses.

Introduction - Stuart Taberner and Paul Cooke"Normalization": Has Helmut Kohl's Vision Been Realized? - Stephen BrockmannCoping with Disparity: Continuity and Discontinuity in Economic Policy since Unification - Jeremy LeamanUnderstanding Germany: The Limits of "Normalization" and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture - Sebastian HarnischUnderstanding Germany: The Limits of "Normalization" and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture - Kerry Longhurst"Normalization" through Europeanization: The Role of the Holocaust - Lothar Probst"Representing Normality": Architecture in Berlin - Simon Ward"Normalizing" the Past: East German Culture and Ostalgie - Anna SaundersNational Memory's Schlüsselkinder: Migration, Pedagogy, and German Remembrance Culture - Annette Seidel ArpaciThe Return of "Undead" History: The West German Terrorist as Vampire and the Problem of "Normalizing" the Past in Margarethe von Trotta's Die bleierne Zeit (1981) and Christian Petzold's Die innere Sicherheit (2001) - Chris Homewood"Normalizing" the "Old" Federal Republic? The FRG between 1949 and 1989 in Recent German Fiction - Andrew PlowmanReconciliation between the Generations: The Image of the Ordinary German Soldier in Dieter Wellershoff's Der Ernstfall and Ulla Hahn's Unscharfe Bilder - Helmut Schmitz"(un)sägliche Vergleiche": What Germans Remembered (and Forgot) in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s - Karoline von Oppen"Normal" as "Apolitical": Uwe Timm's Rot and Thomas Brussig's Leben bis Männer - William Collins Donahue"Narrative Normalization" and Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang - Kathrin SchodelFrom "Normalization" to Globalization. German Fiction into the New Millennium: Christian Kracht, Ingo Schulze, and Feridun Zaimogølu - Stuart TabernerAbnormal Consensus? The New Internationalism of German Cinema - Paul CookeNotes on the ContributorsIndex