Berlin

Lenné-Dreieck: See Axel Steinhage and Thomas Flemming, Berlin 1945–1989. Jahr für Jahr. Die Ereignisse in der geteilten Stadt (Berlin, 1995), 266.

Maxwell’s: See Kramer, Politics of Memory, 1–50.

"separation virus": Peter Schneider, Couplings (New York, 1996), 9.

"the case of war?": Quoted in Bering, Outpost, 222.

"part of us": Quoted in Michael Simmons, Deutschland und Berlin. Geschichte einer Hauptstadt 1871–1990 (Berlin, 1990), 285.

"never forget that": Quoted in McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 82.

Luther’s rehabilitation: Robert F. Goeckel, "The Luther Anniversary in East Germany," World Politics 37 (October 1984), 112–33.

exhumation of Goethe: "The Sorrows of Goethe," New York Times, March 19, 1999.

Prussian revival: See I. R. Martin, "The Changing Image of Prussia in the German Democratic Republic," German Life and Letters 37:1 (1983), 57–70.

"international musical world": "Im Grunde ein Wunder," Der Weltspiegel, June 26, 1994.

"its history and culture": Quoted in Weiss, "Panem et Circenses," 249.

Dom restoration: "Die Heimkehr des verlorenen Sohnes," Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 4, 1993.

Nikolaiviertel: See Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 44–47.

"typical workers’ neighborhood": Ibid., 108.

"Palazzo Prozi": "Vom Palast der Republik zum Ballast der Bundesrepublik?" Der Tagesspiegel, March 27, 1993.

"weht er Mauern fort": Ibid.

act as they did: Timothy Garton Ash, The File. A Personal History (New York, 1997).

a Stasi informer: Peter Schneider, The German Comedy. Scenes of Life after the Wall (New York, 1991), 114.

banana joke: Clemens de Wroblewski, "Hauptstadt Berlin. Ein Witz," in Wilczek, ed., Hauptstadt der DDR, 247.

"double contrast": Timothy Garton Ash, In Europe’s Name. Germany and the Divided Continent (New York, 1993), 200.

"Nischengesellschaft": Hans-Joachim Maaz, Behind the Wall. The Inner Life of Communist Germany (New York, 1993), xv.

"We’ll finish the job": Timo Zilli, Folterzelle 36 (Berlin, 1993), 36, 8.

95,847 marks a head: Whitney, Spy Trader, 168–169.

three billion marks: Ibid., xxxv.

"firm position of socialism": Quoted in McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 150.

more restraint: "Scharfmaul und Prahlhaus," Die Zeit, Sept. 27, 1991.

Biermann expulsion: See Horst Domdey, "Der Anfang vom Ende. 1976, Wolf Biermanns Ausbürgerung," in Wilczek, ed., Berlin—Hauptstadt der DDR, 175–191.

"state he supported": Quoted in "Deutschland im Herbst," Der Tagesspiegel, Nov. 15, 1996.

"spirit of reflection": Quoted in McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 152.

"will be crushed": Quoted in Domdey, "Der Anfang vom Ende," 181.

Distel Cabaret: "Nichts mehr gegeben," Der Tagesspiegel, Oct. 31, 1993.

"Are Communists Allowed to Dream?": Taylor, Berlin and its Culture, 358.

East Berlin Rock: See Peter Wicke, "Der King vom Prenzlauer Berg. Vom Mythos des Rock in einer sozialistischen Metropole," in Wilczek, ed., Berlin—Hauptstadt der DDR, 236–246.

"our working-class youth": Quoted in Richie, Faust’s Metropolis, 753.

"Die Mauer muss weg": Quoted in Steinhage and Flemming, Berlin 1945–1989, 263.

one and the same: On the Prenzlauer Berg scene, see Klaus Michael, "Prenzlauer Berg. Streifzüge durch eine Kulturlandschaft," in Wilczek, ed., Berlin—Hauptstadt der DDR, 192–215; Philip Brady, "‘Wir hausen im Prenzlauer Berg’: On the Very Last Generation of GDR Poets," in Walter Pape, ed., 1870/71–1989/90. German Unifications and the Change of Literary Discourse (Berlin/New York, 1993), 278–301.

"end for the GDR": Quoted in "Deutschland im Herbst," Der Tagesspiegel, Nov. 15, 1996.

negotiations with the GDR: Ash, In Europe’s Name, 38.

"blood and iron": Die Zeit, July 10, 1987.

"Brandenburg Gate remains closed": U.S. Department of State, Documents on Germany 1944–1985 (Washington, D.C., 1985), 1415.

Chapter 10

"one city again": Eberhard Diepgen, ed., Erlebte Einheit. Ein deutsches Lesebuch (Berlin, 1985), 8.

"fearless East Germans": "For the Wall’s Fall, East Germans Are Given Their Due," New York Times, Nov. 10, 1999.

"elder statesman": Quoted in McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 191–192.

"opposing alliances": Quoted in Bark and Gress, A History of West Germany. Vol. 2: Democracy and Its Discontents, 499.