Explores the Eastern German literary trend of the 1990s employing humor and satire to come to terms with socialism's failure and a difficult unification process

As the most prominent German-Jewish Romantic writer, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) became a focal point for much of the tension generated by the Jewish assimilatio

This is the first book in English to survey the Eastern German literary trend of employing humor and satire to come to terms with experiences in the German Demo