1. Monika Maron, “Place of Birth: Berlin,” in Berlin Tales, trans. Lyn Marven (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 67.
2. Originally published in Monika Maron, Geburtsort Berlin (Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 2003).
3. On the function of nostalgia in the former Eastern Bloc, see Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (New York: Basic Books, 2002).
4. Nigel Thrift, Non-representational Theory: Space, Time, Affect (New York: Routledge, 2008), 87.
5. See Dorothy Rowe’s first chapter “The Rise of Berlin in Imperial Germany” for an excellent overview of this material in Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003).