Explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945.

Introduction
Between Preservation and Destruction: Bernd and Hilla Becher's Archive of "Anonymous Sculpture"
Janos Frecot, Photographic Archives, and the Zero Hours of Berlin
Saving the Present: Anselm Kiefer as Self-Archivist
Thomas Demand's Nationalgalerie: Reconstructing a German Archive
Turkish-German Comedy Goes Archival: Alamanya-Willkommen in Deutschland (2011)
Echoes from the Archive: Retrieving and Re-viewing Cinematic Remnants of the Nazi Past
Harun Farocki's Critical Film Archive
Preserving the Self: Constructs of Memory and Biography in the Works of Jürgen Fuchs
Disruptions of the Archive: Renegotiating German History in Autobiographical Fiction after 1989
Verbalizing Silence and Sorting Garbage: Archiving Experiences of Displacement in Recent Post-Yugoslav Fictions of Migration by Sasa Stanisic and Adriana Altaras