Current position(s)

Lecturer in German

Current project(s)

Memory and memorialisation of the GDR

Monographs (and dissertation)

Anna Saunders, Honecker's Children: Youth and Patriotism in East(ern) Germany, 1979-2002 (Manchester: MUP, 2007)

Articles

‘Remembering Cold War Division: Wall Remnants and Border Monuments in Berlin’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies 17 (2009) 1, 9-19

‘Normalising the Past: East German Culture and Ostalgie’, in German Culture, Politics and Literature into the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Normalization, ed. by Paul Cooke and Stuart Taberner (Rochester: Camden House, 2006), 89-103

‘Growing up on the Front Line: Young East Germans and the Effects of Militarism during the 1980s’, Debatte, 13 (2005) 3, 283-97

'Ostdeutschland: Heimat einer xenophoben Tradition?', Berliner Debatte INITIAL, 14 (2003) 2, 50-59

Edited volumes

Anna Saunders and Laura Rorato (eds), The Essence and the Margin: National Identities and Collective Memories in Contemporary European Culture, 'Studia Imagologica' series vol. 15, (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009)

Social and political history of the GDR; memory of the GDR; East German youth culture; monuments and memorials in the Berlin Republic