Divided, but Not Disconnected: German Experiences of the Cold War

Tobias Hochscherf is Professor of Audio-Visual Media at the University of Applied Sciences at Kiel, Germany. His research interests focus on European film and television cultures. He is author of The Continental Connection: German-speaking Émigrés and British Cinema, 1927-45 (Manchester UP, 2011) and has published widely in academic journals and edited collections.

Christoph Laucht is Lecturer in 20th Century British History at the University of Leeds. His research interests include the cultural history of the nuclear age, the transnational history of the Cold War and film and history. He is author of Elemental Germans: Klaus Fuchs, Rudolf Peierls and the Making of British Nuclear Culture 1939-59 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and has widely published on British and American nuclear history, Cold War history and film and history.

Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of a study on German autobiography and of numerous articles on contemporary German literature. His current research focuses on the cultural representation of the Bundeswehr.