Cultural transformation in Eastern Germany after 1990

The six papers in this volume are a selection from presentations in the culture section of the conference Transformationsprozesse in den neuen Bundesländern, held in London in April 2004 and organized by the Association for Modern German Studies and the Centre for East German Studies at the University of Reading with the support of the Goethe-Institut London. A selection of papers from the politics and society section were published in the previous issue of German as a foreign language (GfL 3/2004). All contributions, including two papers focusing on language issues (Reiher & Baumann, Roth, both in GfL 2/2004) mark the attempt of organizers and participants to take stock 15 years into the existence of a “new” Germany